- An interesting article entitled “David Bowie Returns With More Mature Offering” can be found at CDNow’s Allstar daily news site.
The article touches on writing rock and roll for mature audiences and Bowie’s songwriting process.
There is an excerpt:
“Actually, I think for the first time for a long time I’d actually taken the trouble to write the songs before we went into the studio,” says Bowie. “So I spent a lot of time virtually crafting them in a very reactionary, old fashioned traditional way; just wrote proper songs, applied myself to them and the lyric, and kept them extremely simple.
I didn’t want them to become decorative in any manner. So when I went into the studio, I had positive ideas of how the songs were to sound which really is quite unusual, especially for the 90s. It’s the last thing I’ve done really in the 90s. Just about everything has been done in the studio in more of an experimental fashion much like the middle to late 70s. I guess the last time I wrote songs per se was really the early 80s.”
Here is the full article.