Sex Pistols’ Paul Cook was among the famous faces a the opening night of David Bowie: You’re Not Alone and reflected on his relationship with the music industry
The legendary rocker and Paul Cook was among the celebrities at the opening night of David Bowie: You’re Not Alone at Lightroom in London last night.
While on the red carpet, the Sex Pistols drummer opened up about his many years creating music and how he felt the industry had changed after several decades.
“I’ll tell you where it’s going, I just hate the industry more and more the older I get!” he said with a laugh as he chatted with press on the red carpet.
Paul was one of the founding members of the Sex Pistols alongside Johnny Rotten (John Lydon), guitarist Steve Jones, and bassist Glen Matlock. The 69-year-old star was joined by his wife Jeni, as they walked the red carpet and spoke earnestly about the major influence David Bowie had on his career.
“He was one of us, really. He’s a London boy, and we all felt he was one of us. And he’ll always be a really important influence on lots of people forever. I think Bowie, it will never He will never go away. He’ll always be there.” Speaking about Bowie’s legacy he explained that he considered him “the man” and was most inspired by the music released after his Ziggy Stardust era, which lasted until 1974 with the album Diamond Dogs and was closely followed by Young Americans in 1975.
“The Bowie legacy, Oh, just a massive influence when we were growing up all the glad with him and all the rest of the glam rock artist. He was the one, different. He was the one. Yeah, he was the man.” He added: “When he moved to Berlin and made those three albums, Low, Heroes, The Lodger, when he moved on from his glam rock, that was my favourite.”
He added that it felt like something entirely new to the music world: “Well, never heard anything like it before, really from a pop artist superstar, he just went off, changing a totally different direction, and it was brilliant.”
Paul and wife Judi were snapped with Boy George at the event. The couple has known the singer for decades as Judi was a backing singer for Culture Club, and Boy George, whose real name is George Alan O’Dowd, is the godfather to their daughter Hollie.
Boy George said that he constantly had thought in terms about what Bowie would do: “I always think, what would he do? When Bowie approached drum and bass or disco, he did it in a very unique way, and I think that’s what I’ve tried to do. I learned from my most influential hero in terms of, ‘what would I do? What would I say in this moment?'”.
The Colour By Numbers singer also told the press that Bowie had a huge impact on his career: “Listen, Bowie was a straight guy in makeup. So for a gay boy to be influenced so heavily by, you know, straight people, Mark Bolan and David Bowie, so many people from the 70s that were really basically straight guys, but they understood that, sort of like, you know, sexuality was an interesting place to play around with, where we always just did us. He was such a great ally and person to inspire.”
Bowie came out as bisexual in the 70s but later told Rolling Stone in the 80s that he was “a closet heterosexual”. His sexuality has been under much debate over the years, with Bowie preferring to remain mute on the topic. When asked by Jonathan Ross about his sexuality in an early 2000s interview, the Modern Love singer was vague and said: “I just got my leg over a lot.” He added: “I was just incredibly promiscuous, and I think we’ll leave it at that.”
Other celebrities at the event included Oasis’ Noel Gallagher, Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears, Homeland actor Damian Lewis, and The Other Bennett Sister star, Indira Varma.
David Bowie: You’re Not Alone is available to experience at Lightroom from April 22 until June 28.
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