{"id":85307,"date":"2025-08-21T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/85307\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:01:08","slug":"when-bowie-lived-with-me-he-kept-pushing-me-saying-youve-gotta-keep-changing-you-cant-keep-repeating-yourself-the-legendary-rock-singer-whose-band-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/85307\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen Bowie lived with me, he kept pushing me, saying, ‘You\u2019ve gotta keep changing. You can\u2019t keep repeating yourself\u2019\u201d: The legendary rock singer whose band stopped him from recording with David Bowie"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Glenn Hughes talks about the career of his late friend David Bowie, he tells MusicRadar: \u201cSimply put \u2013 there\u2019s never been anyone like him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hughes, a former member of both Black Sabbath<\/a> and Deep Purple, also credits Bowie as a powerful influence on his own work.<\/p>\n

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Beyond heavy rock, Hughes has ventured into soul and funk music, and declares: \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to pigeonhole Glenn Hughes! It really is.\u201d<\/p>\n

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His friendship with David Bowie began in the \u201970s and they remained close until Bowie\u2019s death in 2016.<\/p>\n

It was in 1974, when Hughes was the bassist and co-lead vocalist in Deep Purple, that he and Bowie first met.<\/p>\n

They quickly became close friends, and after Bowie attended the sessions for Purple\u2019s album Stormbringer at the Record Plant studios in Los Angeles, Bowie asked Hughes to appear on his album Young Americans.<\/p>\n

Sadly, Hughes\u2019 bandmates in Purple weren\u2019t into the idea, forcing him to decline Bowie\u2019s offer.<\/p>\n

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But their connection continued. When Bowie made his 1976 album Station To Station he lived with Hughes in LA. And as Hughes says now, this friendship had a profound effect on his own creative mindset.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people I really admired, like my good friend David Bowie, always changed,\u201d Hughes says. \u201cAnd that\u2019s the way it\u2019s always been for me.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Bowie lived with me, he kept pushing me, saying, ‘You\u2019ve gotta keep changing. You can\u2019t keep repeating yourself.\u2019 So, I\u2019ve been doing that ever since.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t want people to expect \u2013 just because I was in a band called Deep Purple \u2013 that I\u2019d make that kind of music again after I left.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the sessions for Deep Purple\u2019s Stormbringer, Bowie joined Hughes in the studio as the band recorded the song Hold On.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, that\u2019s true,\u201d Hughes confirms. \u201cWe were joined at the hip in 1974! So, you know, he came into the studio many times with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hughes has always regretted having to decline the offer to record with Bowie.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wanted me to be on Young Americans,\u201d he says. \u201cBut I met with Deep Purple, and they were very against that, thinking it would be bad for the brand of Deep Purple.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd since I didn\u2019t want to cause any problems, I had to decline, but I didn\u2019t understand what they were talking about.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it might have helped them if I\u2019d done it because that album was like a number one album, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nevertheless, Hughes gained an insight into Bowie\u2019s creative methods during the making of Station To Station.<\/p>\n

He recalls: \u201cDavid was staying at my house when he was making that album. As a writer, I was fascinated by that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI watched him all along throughout his career. Even before I met him in 1974, I knew Space Oddity. But with Station To Station, just actually watching him work, watching him react, or not react, was very important to me.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis influence on me as a human was very important, you know? And all these years later, I\u2019ve been changing the way I look, the way I feel, and the way I act.<\/p>\n

\u201cObserving him \u2013 the way he operated on and off the stage \u2013 was fascinating to me because there\u2019s never been anyone like him. In 100 years of music, there\u2019s never been anyone that forged ahead the way he did.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe got very famous as Ziggy Stardust, and as soon as he got famous with Stardust, it was just like the end of that.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just wanted to keep moving and morphing. And not many artists have really done that since.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Glenn Hughes talks about the career of his late friend David Bowie, he tells MusicRadar: \u201cSimply put…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-85307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85307","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=85307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}