{"id":228275,"date":"2025-10-20T20:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/228275\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T20:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:27:08","slug":"david-bowie-told-cameron-crowe-famous-interview-was-insane-ramblings-of-young-man-addicted-to-amphetamines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/228275\/","title":{"rendered":"David Bowie told Cameron Crowe famous interview was “insane ramblings of young man addicted to amphetamines”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cameron Crowe has recalled David Bowie<\/a> revisiting a past interview with him decades later, revealing the late star admitted they were the \u201cinsane ramblings of a young man addicted to amphetamines\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Oscar<\/a>-winning filmmaker began his career as a journalist, with his experiences documented in 2000 film Almost Famous.<\/p>\n

Among the artists he covered back then were Bowie, the writer spending 18 months on the road with the singer, and in a new memoir called The Uncool, he revisited his time with Bowie decades later.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t want to go back there,\u201d Crowe told The Independent<\/a>. \u201cI would read his quotes back to him. Like, \u2018you said Patti Smith and Kraftwerk would be all that\u2019s remembered from this time\u2019, but he wouldn\u2019t bite.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cHe kept batting it all back to me, and eventually just said, \u2018Cameron, those were the insane ramblings of a young man addicted to amphetamines\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

He reiterated: \u201cHe just didn\u2019t want to go back there. He was in love with his wife, having a beautiful life living in Soho.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crowe was then asked whether he was sad that Bowie couldn\u2019t recall a lot of their time together, reflecting: \u201cYou know what, I spent a lot of time thinking about it. I think he remembered it all. He just didn\u2019t want to remember it with me, but that\u2019s OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the director is set to helm a new Joni Mitchell biopic, and teased in his latest interview that it is \u201ca movie about somebody worth making a movie about, and something that really has my voice in it\u201d.<\/p>\n

The film, which is rumoured to star Anya Taylor-Joy and Meryl Streep as the younger and older versions of the music icon, was expected to be released this Christmas<\/a>, though will miss that deadline.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the project last year, Crowe told Ultimate Classic Rock<\/a>: \u201cIt\u2019s Joni\u2019s life, not through anybody else\u2019s prism. It\u2019s through her prism. It\u2019s the characters who impacted her life that you know and a lot that you don\u2019t know. And the music is so cinematic.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other news, the BBC has confirmed that a documentary is in the works<\/a> focusing on Bowie\u2019s years in Berlin in the late 1970s, which is expected to premiere next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron Crowe has recalled David Bowie revisiting a past interview with him decades later, revealing the late star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-228275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}