David Bowie‘s former supervisor Tony Defries has mentioned that the late icon deliberate to convey again Ziggy Stardust for a comeback tour.
Bowie famously retired his alter ego at a live performance at London’s Hammersmith Odeon in 1973.
Speaking about his causes for killing off Ziggy on the time, the late icon advised NME: “That’s it. Period. I don’t want to do any more gigs and the American dates have been cancelled. From now on I’ll be concentrating on various activities that have very little to do with rock and pop.”
Now, Defries has mentioned the rationale he retired his persona was due to its success.
“Basically, I think success wasn’t the ideal situation for David,” Defries advised MOJO. “When [1973 album] ‘Aladdin Sane’ was selling enormous quantities and crowds were shutting down railway stations, just to get a glance of him, I think that’s when it all began to sink in, that he was no longer an ordinary person. The Ziggy effect was taking hold and he couldn’t cope with it, really,” he mentioned.
He additionally mentioned Bowie’s reasoning was influenced by Frank Sinatra, who stop the music trade in 1971 earlier than returning two years later. He defined: “David was a big Sinatra fan. Making the comeback is the key thing.”
Most surprisingly although he mentioned they deliberate on doing a comeback tour.
He added: “We tried and failed to get promoters in America to book [a Bowie / Ziggy Stardust comeback tour] into large arenas as a headliner. So, that was a real reason for retiring Ziggy, to be honest with you… nothing to do with music or style or anything else.”
Bowie additionally wished to relaunch Ziggy Stardust in house, video video games designer Phil Campbell beforehand mentioned.
Meanwhile, Bowie’s property yesterday (April 2) paid tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto after he lately handed away. Sakamoto not solely scored Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, but additionally starred within the warfare movie alongside the late icon.