00:01Think of the legends that come from the night sky.
00:05You know, a star man.
00:07David was always looking for the new thing.
00:10He was always experimenting.
00:12A caterpillar has to come out of its cocoon
00:15in order to become a butterfly.
00:20In the 80s, after Let's Dance,
00:22David was running a little bit out of gas.
00:25They wanted David to do Let's Dance 2,
00:28and he wanted to be different.
00:31The moment you start experimenting,
00:33people are going to lose interest.
00:35People are going to get mad at you.
00:36But you don't know that in advance.
00:38You just do your best.
00:39The poor reception of tin machines
00:41would have been very bruising for him.
00:44EMI terminated his contract.
00:47Having a knockback like that
00:49when you've had enormous success
00:51would take a pickaxe to your identity.
00:54Bowie had emerged into a new millennium.
00:59That was the turning point
01:00after ten years of wilderness.
01:02And it was just perfect.
01:06In a way, Bowie was our Elvis.
01:08That's exactly who he was to us.
01:09Definitely was a cultural prophet.
01:13What would you do if you knew you only had X amount of time?
01:16He wanted to make the best album of his life.
01:20But even black stars will eventually lose their energy.
01:25He became his star mate.
01:27He became the ultimate time traveler.
01:46He was a kid,
01:47he went to one night in the US.
01:48He wasn't a kid in the US.
01:49We didn't wait to make a hit.
01:50He wouldn't want to make a hit.
01:51I was a kid
01:54a little bird.
01:55He said that this will satisfy,
01:56that of course,
01:57he was going to play.
01:58He was going to be different.
02:00What's going to happen?
02:01He had to play.
02:02He's going to be different.
02:04I became the guy,
02:06he's going to play.
02:07He's going to play.
02:08He's going to play.
02:10He's going to play.
02:11He's going to play.
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