David Bowie 2002 Interview Parkinson

以下文字來：https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnLgqeFxkW0&t=0s

David Bowie參加Michael Parkinson的訪談節目（Tom Hanks作爲第二嘉賓）：

Bowie表演了來自專輯“Heathen”的“Everyone says 'HI'”和“Life on Mars”（Mike Garson彈鋼琴伴奏）。

關於歌曲“Life on Mars”和Frank Sinatra的聯繫：Bowie 1973年發行單曲“Life on Mars”，在英國排行榜上排名第三，停留在榜單上長達十三週。2015年，《每日電訊報》首席搖滾音樂評論家Neil McCormick將其列爲他的“有史以來最偉大的100首歌曲”排行榜的第一名。1968年，Bowie以1967年法國歌曲“Comme d'habitude”（該歌曲由Claude François和Jacques Revaux創作）的音樂爲基礎，創作了歌詞“Even a Fool Learns to Love”。Bowie的版本從未發行過，但Paul Anka購買了原始的法國版本“Comme d'habitude”的版權，並將其改編成了“ My Way ”，由Frank Sinatra在1969年同名專輯中演唱的，這首歌曲非常出名。Anka版本的成功促使Bowie以Sinatra的錄音爲模仿對象，寫出了“Life on Mars”。

在附帶於2008年6月的“星期日郵報”中Bowie的CD專輯的註釋中，Bowie描述了他創作這首歌曲的方式：“工作區是一個大而空的房間，裏面有一張躺椅；一塊價格實惠的新藝術風格屏風（‘威廉·莫里斯’，所以我告訴任何問的人）；一個巨大的滿溢自由站立菸灰缸和一架大鋼琴。幾乎沒有其他東西。我開始在鋼琴上練習，下午晚些時候就完成了整個歌詞和旋律。”Bowie指出，Wakeman“裝飾了他原始旋律的鋼琴部分”，吉他手Mick Ronson“爲這首歌曲創造了他的第一份並且最好的絃樂部分”。《Hunky Dory》的唱片說明表明，這首歌曲是“受Frankie啓發”的。一位評論家認爲這首歌是在與演員Hermione Farthingale的“短暫而痛苦的戀情”之後寫的。1990年巡演時，Bowie通過說“你墜入愛河，你就寫了一首情歌。這是一首情歌”來介紹這首歌曲。 （來源：維基百科）

Bowie在10:15左右提到的詩是以下的一首：

這首詩是菲利普·拉金的《人生定律》。

他們搞砸了你，你的父母。
他們可能並不是有意的，但他們做到了。
他們將他們自己的毛病注入了你的身體，
併爲你增添了一些額外的煩惱。

但他們也受到了上一代的傷害，
被戴着老式帽子和外套的傻瓜們搞糟了，
他們有一半時間是感性的嚴厲，
有一半時間在互相攻擊。

人類將痛苦傳承下去，
它像海岸架一樣加深。
早早離開吧，
別讓自己生孩子。

英文原文：

Talk with Michael Parkinson and as second guest Tom Hanks. Bowie performs "Everyone says "HI"" from the album "Heathen" and "Life on Mars" in the show (with Mike Garson at the piano).
About the song "Life on Mars" and the link to Frank Sinatra: When released as a single in 1973, it reached number three in the UK and stayed on the chart for thirteen weeks. In 2015 Neil McCormick, chief rock music critic of "The Daily Telegraph", ranked it as number one in his "100 Greatest Songs of All Time" list. In 1968 Bowie wrote the lyrics "Even a Fool Learns to Love", set to the music of a 1967 French song "Comme d'habitude", composed by Claude François and Jacques Revaux. Bowie's version was never released, but Paul Anka bought the rights to the original French version, and rewrote it into "My Way", the song made famous by Frank Sinatra in a 1969 recording on his album of the same name. The success of the Anka version prompted Bowie to write "Life on Mars" as a parody of Sinatra's recording. In notes for a Bowie compilation CD that accompanied a June 2008 issue of "The Mail on Sunday". Bowie described how he wrote the song: "Workspace was a big empty room with a chaise longue; a bargain-price art nouveau screen ('William Morris,' so I told anyone who asked); a huge overflowing freestanding ashtray and a grand piano. Little else. I started working it out on the piano and had the whole lyric and melody finished by late afternoon." Bowie noted that Wakeman "embellished the piano part" of his original melody and guitarist Mick Ronson "created one of his first and best string parts" for the song. The liner notes for Hunky Dory indicate that the song was 'inspired by Frankie'. One reviewer suggested the song was written after "a brief and painful affair" with actress Hermione Farthingale. While on tour in 1990, Bowie introduced the song by saying "You fall in love, you write a love song. This is a love song." (Source: Wikipedia)

The poem Bowie refers to at about 10:15 is the following:

This Be The Verse" by Philip Larkin

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.   
    They may not mean to, but they do.   
They fill you with the faults they had
    And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
    By fools in old-style hats and coats,   
Who half the time were soppy-stern
    And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
    It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
    And don’t have any kids yourself.