大象传媒

In 2002, as he prepared to release his latest album, David Bowie met 大象传媒 Radio 4鈥檚 John Wilson in a rehearsal room in New York City.

Over the course of an extraordinarily candid conversation, Bowie revealed his creative processes and inspirations behind some of his best loved albums. He looked back at how he created alter-ego characters, including Ziggy Stardust, through which he explored recurring themes in his work. 鈥淚t鈥檚 all despondency, despair, fear, isolation, abandonment鈥�, Bowie admitted. And he explained how the spaceship motif that often travelled through his songs was 鈥渁n interior dialogue manifested physically .. it鈥檚 my own little space writ large鈥�.

David Bowie, speaking just months after the 9/11 attacks on New York, also revealed how he had been seeking solace in spirituality as the prospect of death was weighing heavily on his mind.

Presented and produced by John Wilson