David Bowie sobre Vince Taylor, el rockero que inspiró el personaje de Ziggy Stardust:
"Él fue la inspiración para Ziggy. Vince Taylor fue una estrella del rock'n'roll de los años sesenta que lentamente se fue volviendo loco. Lo último que hizo como artista, despidió a su banda y salió al escenario una noche sólo con una sábana blanca. Le dijo a la audiencia que era Jesús. Eso lo alejó de la música para siempre "- Bowie (1976)
"Vince Taylor fue la pesadilla de todo hombre. Era un expatriado estadounidense que tuvo algún pequeño nivel de éxito en la televisión inglesa...Había un variopinto grupo de ingleses aspirantes a Elvis. Había cientos de ellas...Era uno de ellos, pero probablemente el más auténtico, al menos su acento era correcto, pero su música era un poco básica. Lo conocí en cierta época y el tipo tenía perdida la razón. Quiero decir que le quedaba poco sano en la azotea. El tipo estaba loco, absolutamente. No me acuerdo si me dijo que era un extraterrestre o el hijo de Dios, o un poco de ambos. Tenía a su alrededor todos estos aduladores creyendo realmente su rollo. Un día que coincidimos en la estación de Metro de Tottenham Court Road sacó un mapa del mundo y me mostró donde tenían sus bases los extraterrestres para aterrizar, en el Ártico y en una montaña y en el Metro... pasaba gente por encima del mapa y miraban pensando qué demonios estaría yo haciendo ahí en medio en hora punta con ese americano loco. Luego me enteré de que se fue a Francia y se convirtió en todo un gran éxito allí .... una noche subió al escenario sin su banda vestido de blanco y le dijo a todos que él era el Mesías y le abuchearon-el público se volvió loco y fue el final de su carrera. Así Vince Taylor se convirtió en una inspiración para construir el personaje de Ziggy. Pensé que era demasiado bueno para ser verdad".
"Vince era un estadounidense y llegó a Inglaterra, luego se fue a Francia y se convirtió en una estrella del rock. Lo conocí en Inglaterra. Llevaba una túnica blanca y sandalias y nos sentamos en una calle de Londres con un mapa del mundo y trató de enseñarme dónde estaban las bases extraterrestres en alguna parte del plano. Vince volvió a Francia, luego me enteré de una famosa noche donde le dijo a su banda que se fuera a casa y apareció vestido de blanco y con sandalias, diciendo a los franceses que era el enviado. Se le vetó para siempre en la música. Como mis discos se vendían pensé en Vince y escribí "Ziggy Stardust". - Bowie (parte de una autobiografía inconclusa e inédita titulada EL REGRESO DEL DUQUE BLANCO DUKE- Este extracto aparece en la revista Rolling Stone enero de 1976)
"... En su cabeza se convirtió en el Mesías ... Solía pasar el tiempo en Tottenham Court Road y pude conocerle. Y él tenía esos pensamientos extraños, de que había dinero enterrado, que nos ibamos a reunir con los extraterrestres, que se iba a crear un nuevo Atlantis... Y siempre se me quedó en la mente como un ejemplo de lo que puede suceder en el rock'n'roll. No estoy seguro si lo tomé en cuenta como a un ídolo o como algo que no quería llegar a ser, un poco de las dos probablemente. Había algo muy tentador en él por eso de estar al límite. Especialmente a mi edad, entonces parecía un rollo atractivo: Oh, me encantaría terminar como él, totalmente loco. ¡Ja, ja! Y así resurgió transformado en el personaje de Ziggy Stardust "- Bowie (1990)
"Lo extraño y jodido es que Vince murió el pobre no hace mucho tiempo, hace unos años en Suiza, cerca de donde yo vivía cuando residí en Suiza y ¿sabes a lo que se había dedicado en los últimos años de su vida? Este hombre había estado entrando y saliendo de instituciones mentales toda su vida - luego se dedicó al mantenimiento de aviones en el aeropuerto de Ginebra. ¡¿Puedes creerlo?! ¡Ziggy era un empleado de mantenimiento! - Bowie (2000)
David Bowie on Vince Taylor - The Inspiration for Ziggy Stardust
"He was the inspiration for Ziggy. Vince Taylor was a rock n roll star from the Sixties who was slowly going crazy. Finally, he fired his band and went on-stage one night in a white sheet. He told the audience to rejoice, that he was Jesus. They put him away" - Bowie (1976)
"Vince Taylor was this nightmare of a guy. He was a American expatriate who had some small degree of success on English television....There was kind of this motley crew of English would-be Elvis's. There were hundreds of them..... He was one of them, probably the most authentic of the lot in that he was at least American so the accent was correct but his music was pretty pony. I met him in the Gioconda one day and the guy was right out of his tree. I mean he was playing with half a deck. This guy was bonkers, absolutely the genuine article. I can't remember if he said he was an alien or the son of god. He might have been a bit of both. He had all these sycophants actually believing him. He really did a number one job. One day he dragged out this world map so we were crouching on all fours outside Tottenham Court Road tube station and he was showing me where all the aliens had their bases under the Arctic and in this mountain and there's people stepping over our map and I think what the hell am I doing in the middle of rush hour with this bonkers American? There's something in this - I'm going to remember this - this is just too good. Then I heard that in France - he went over to France and became quite a big hit over there....one night he had gone on stage without his band but dressed in white robes and told everybody that he was the coming messiah and he got booed off - the audience went mad and it was the end of his career. So Vince Taylor became one of the building blocks of the Ziggy character. I just thought he was just too good to be true. He was of another world - he was somewhere else. He definitely was part of the blueprint of this strange character that came from somewhere else."
"Vince was an American and came to England, then went to France and became a star of dirge. But then he came back to England and we spoke of our findings. He wore a white robe and sandals and we sat on the busy London street with a map of the world and tried to find the people who were passing by and scowling at us. They were nowhere on the map. Vince went back to France, then I heard about the famous show where he told his band to go home and appeared in front of the curtains in that old white robe and sandals, telling the French people about the comings and goings due upon us. He was banned from performing. My records were selling and I was being a man in demand. I thought of Vince and wrote "Ziggy Stardust." I thought of my brother and wrote "Five Years." Then my friend came to mind, standing the way we stood in Bewlay Brothers and I wrote "Moonage Daydream."- Bowie (Part of a never completed or fully published autobiography titled THE RETURN OF THE THIN WHITE DUKE - this excerpt featured in Rolling Stone Magazine January 1976)
"I met (Vince Taylor) a few times in the mid-Sixties and I went to a few parties with him. He was out of his gourd. Totally flipped. The guy was not playing with a full deck at all. He used to carry maps of Europe around with him, and I remember him opening a map outside Charing Cross tube station, putting it on the pavement and kneeling down with a magnifying glass. He pointed out all the sites where UFOs were going to land." - Bowie (1996)
"...In his own mind he did become the Messiah...He used to hang out on Tottenham Court Road and I got to know him then. And he had these strange plans, showing where there was money buried, that he was going to get together; he was going to create this new Atlantis at one time...And he always stayed in my mind as an example of what can happen in rock n roll. I'm not sure if I held him up as an idol or as something not to become. Bit of both probably. There was something very tempting about him going completely off the edge. Especially at my age, then, it seemed very appealing: Oh, I'd love to end up like that, totally nuts. Ha ha! And so he re-emerged in this Ziggy Stardust character" - Bowie (1990)
"The weird and rather scary thing is that poor Vince died not so long ago, a few years ago in Switzerland near to where I lived when I was living in Switzerland and do you know what his career had been the last few years of his life? This guy had been in and out of institutions all his life - he was an aircraft maintenance guy at Geneva Airport. Can you believe that! Ziggy was a maintenance guy!" - Bowie (2000)
[Texto extraído deText from The Ziggy Stardust Companion]
"Él fue la inspiración para Ziggy. Vince Taylor fue una estrella del rock'n'roll de los años sesenta que lentamente se fue volviendo loco. Lo último que hizo como artista, despidió a su banda y salió al escenario una noche sólo con una sábana blanca. Le dijo a la audiencia que era Jesús. Eso lo alejó de la música para siempre "- Bowie (1976)
"Vince Taylor fue la pesadilla de todo hombre. Era un expatriado estadounidense que tuvo algún pequeño nivel de éxito en la televisión inglesa...Había un variopinto grupo de ingleses aspirantes a Elvis. Había cientos de ellas...Era uno de ellos, pero probablemente el más auténtico, al menos su acento era correcto, pero su música era un poco básica. Lo conocí en cierta época y el tipo tenía perdida la razón. Quiero decir que le quedaba poco sano en la azotea. El tipo estaba loco, absolutamente. No me acuerdo si me dijo que era un extraterrestre o el hijo de Dios, o un poco de ambos. Tenía a su alrededor todos estos aduladores creyendo realmente su rollo. Un día que coincidimos en la estación de Metro de Tottenham Court Road sacó un mapa del mundo y me mostró donde tenían sus bases los extraterrestres para aterrizar, en el Ártico y en una montaña y en el Metro... pasaba gente por encima del mapa y miraban pensando qué demonios estaría yo haciendo ahí en medio en hora punta con ese americano loco. Luego me enteré de que se fue a Francia y se convirtió en todo un gran éxito allí .... una noche subió al escenario sin su banda vestido de blanco y le dijo a todos que él era el Mesías y le abuchearon-el público se volvió loco y fue el final de su carrera. Así Vince Taylor se convirtió en una inspiración para construir el personaje de Ziggy. Pensé que era demasiado bueno para ser verdad".
"Vince era un estadounidense y llegó a Inglaterra, luego se fue a Francia y se convirtió en una estrella del rock. Lo conocí en Inglaterra. Llevaba una túnica blanca y sandalias y nos sentamos en una calle de Londres con un mapa del mundo y trató de enseñarme dónde estaban las bases extraterrestres en alguna parte del plano. Vince volvió a Francia, luego me enteré de una famosa noche donde le dijo a su banda que se fuera a casa y apareció vestido de blanco y con sandalias, diciendo a los franceses que era el enviado. Se le vetó para siempre en la música. Como mis discos se vendían pensé en Vince y escribí "Ziggy Stardust". - Bowie (parte de una autobiografía inconclusa e inédita titulada EL REGRESO DEL DUQUE BLANCO DUKE- Este extracto aparece en la revista Rolling Stone enero de 1976)
"... En su cabeza se convirtió en el Mesías ... Solía pasar el tiempo en Tottenham Court Road y pude conocerle. Y él tenía esos pensamientos extraños, de que había dinero enterrado, que nos ibamos a reunir con los extraterrestres, que se iba a crear un nuevo Atlantis... Y siempre se me quedó en la mente como un ejemplo de lo que puede suceder en el rock'n'roll. No estoy seguro si lo tomé en cuenta como a un ídolo o como algo que no quería llegar a ser, un poco de las dos probablemente. Había algo muy tentador en él por eso de estar al límite. Especialmente a mi edad, entonces parecía un rollo atractivo: Oh, me encantaría terminar como él, totalmente loco. ¡Ja, ja! Y así resurgió transformado en el personaje de Ziggy Stardust "- Bowie (1990)
"Lo extraño y jodido es que Vince murió el pobre no hace mucho tiempo, hace unos años en Suiza, cerca de donde yo vivía cuando residí en Suiza y ¿sabes a lo que se había dedicado en los últimos años de su vida? Este hombre había estado entrando y saliendo de instituciones mentales toda su vida - luego se dedicó al mantenimiento de aviones en el aeropuerto de Ginebra. ¡¿Puedes creerlo?! ¡Ziggy era un empleado de mantenimiento! - Bowie (2000)
David Bowie on Vince Taylor - The Inspiration for Ziggy Stardust
"He was the inspiration for Ziggy. Vince Taylor was a rock n roll star from the Sixties who was slowly going crazy. Finally, he fired his band and went on-stage one night in a white sheet. He told the audience to rejoice, that he was Jesus. They put him away" - Bowie (1976)
"Vince Taylor was this nightmare of a guy. He was a American expatriate who had some small degree of success on English television....There was kind of this motley crew of English would-be Elvis's. There were hundreds of them..... He was one of them, probably the most authentic of the lot in that he was at least American so the accent was correct but his music was pretty pony. I met him in the Gioconda one day and the guy was right out of his tree. I mean he was playing with half a deck. This guy was bonkers, absolutely the genuine article. I can't remember if he said he was an alien or the son of god. He might have been a bit of both. He had all these sycophants actually believing him. He really did a number one job. One day he dragged out this world map so we were crouching on all fours outside Tottenham Court Road tube station and he was showing me where all the aliens had their bases under the Arctic and in this mountain and there's people stepping over our map and I think what the hell am I doing in the middle of rush hour with this bonkers American? There's something in this - I'm going to remember this - this is just too good. Then I heard that in France - he went over to France and became quite a big hit over there....one night he had gone on stage without his band but dressed in white robes and told everybody that he was the coming messiah and he got booed off - the audience went mad and it was the end of his career. So Vince Taylor became one of the building blocks of the Ziggy character. I just thought he was just too good to be true. He was of another world - he was somewhere else. He definitely was part of the blueprint of this strange character that came from somewhere else."
"Vince was an American and came to England, then went to France and became a star of dirge. But then he came back to England and we spoke of our findings. He wore a white robe and sandals and we sat on the busy London street with a map of the world and tried to find the people who were passing by and scowling at us. They were nowhere on the map. Vince went back to France, then I heard about the famous show where he told his band to go home and appeared in front of the curtains in that old white robe and sandals, telling the French people about the comings and goings due upon us. He was banned from performing. My records were selling and I was being a man in demand. I thought of Vince and wrote "Ziggy Stardust." I thought of my brother and wrote "Five Years." Then my friend came to mind, standing the way we stood in Bewlay Brothers and I wrote "Moonage Daydream."- Bowie (Part of a never completed or fully published autobiography titled THE RETURN OF THE THIN WHITE DUKE - this excerpt featured in Rolling Stone Magazine January 1976)
"I met (Vince Taylor) a few times in the mid-Sixties and I went to a few parties with him. He was out of his gourd. Totally flipped. The guy was not playing with a full deck at all. He used to carry maps of Europe around with him, and I remember him opening a map outside Charing Cross tube station, putting it on the pavement and kneeling down with a magnifying glass. He pointed out all the sites where UFOs were going to land." - Bowie (1996)
"...In his own mind he did become the Messiah...He used to hang out on Tottenham Court Road and I got to know him then. And he had these strange plans, showing where there was money buried, that he was going to get together; he was going to create this new Atlantis at one time...And he always stayed in my mind as an example of what can happen in rock n roll. I'm not sure if I held him up as an idol or as something not to become. Bit of both probably. There was something very tempting about him going completely off the edge. Especially at my age, then, it seemed very appealing: Oh, I'd love to end up like that, totally nuts. Ha ha! And so he re-emerged in this Ziggy Stardust character" - Bowie (1990)
"The weird and rather scary thing is that poor Vince died not so long ago, a few years ago in Switzerland near to where I lived when I was living in Switzerland and do you know what his career had been the last few years of his life? This guy had been in and out of institutions all his life - he was an aircraft maintenance guy at Geneva Airport. Can you believe that! Ziggy was a maintenance guy!" - Bowie (2000)
[Texto extraído deText from The Ziggy Stardust Companion]
