They got a message from the action man…
In a promo spot for the 2009 Grammy Awards, Thom Yorke has explained how David Bowie was the trigger for him wanting to pursue a career in music .
In the spot, Thom says this about an early encounter with a groundbreaking Bowie video…
“I remember sitting on a climbing frame in the local play park and I’d just seen the video for Ashes To Ashes by David Bowie…it was the craziest thing I’d ever seen and all the other kids were sort of saying how it was too weird and I just thought: ‘I wanna do that for a living’.”
The 30-second ad will run in the US up to the 51st Grammy Awards on February 8th and also on