I wrote a song for you…
Very nice to see a double page spread in the May issue of
The feature itself takes the form of an interview with David on the subject of songwriting. Here’s the standfirst: David Bowie, one of the most consistently great British songwriters of all time, explains his creative process, and tells us why time and place matter.
“Crikey!”, I thought to myself, “Has Classic Rock managed to get an exclusive David Bowie interview?”. But then my eye settled on the following credit: Words: Bill DeMain. It seemed a very familiar name and once I started reading, I seemed to recall the interview too.
The original interview appeared as part of a ten-page feature in the September/October 2003 edition of Performing Songwriter. As you can see from the cover below, marriage, music and art were among the topics originally covered in this interview.
In fact, if you’d rather read the full thing, as opposed to the Classic Rock edit, and you don’t already have the magazine, it’s still available from the