I’m an absolute beginner…
Who could have foreseen the answer the flame-haired, make-up-wearing singer of My Chemical Romance would give when he was asked what musician from history he would like to collaborate with?
Ben Jones of Absolute Radio posed the question to Gerard Way in an interview/fan Q&A last week…the exchange went something like this…
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Ben Jones: If you could collaborate with any musician from history who would it be and why? We’re giving you the whole of history.
Gerard Way: I know, it’s hard, dude. David Bowie. He’s awesome.
BJ: Why David Bowie? I think I probably know why David Bowie.
GW: Right. I think because he’s a true artist, he’s completely always done what he wanted, he’s changed so much record to record, and I completely look up to him. I definitely think he’s a genius, I think nothing really ever seemed to get in the way of him making his art and that’s admirable.
BJ: He had this amazing way of having the image, but the image not detracting from what the music was doing. And actually he could have just been wearing brown trousers with a side parting and it would have been just as entertaining as what he was doing.
GW: I think so.
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“He could have just been wearing brown trousers with a side parting”…the very thought!
Anyway, you can watch the whole interview over on
Speaking of pop people who wouldn’t mind working with our man…