Cameron Crowe has recalled David Bowie revisiting a past interview with him decades later, revealing the late star admitted they were the “insane ramblings of a young man addicted to amphetamines”.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker began his career as a journalist, with his experiences documented in 2000 film Almost Famous.
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.
“He didn’t want to go back there,” Crowe told The Independent. “I would read his quotes back to him. Like, ‘you said Patti Smith and Kraftwerk would be all that’s remembered from this time’, but he wouldn’t bite.
“He kept batting it all back to me, and eventually just said, ‘Cameron, those were the insane ramblings of a young man addicted to amphetamines’.”
He reiterated: “He just didn’t want to go back there. He was in love with his wife, having a beautiful life living in Soho.”
Crowe was then asked whether he was sad that Bowie couldn’t recall a lot of their time together, reflecting: “You know what, I spent a lot of time thinking about it. I think he remembered it all. He just didn’t want to remember it with me, but that’s OK.”
Meanwhile, the director is set to helm a new Joni Mitchell biopic, and teased in his latest interview that it is “a movie about somebody worth making a movie about, and something that really has my voice in it”.
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, though will miss that deadline.
Speaking about the project last year, Crowe told Ultimate Classic Rock: “It’s Joni’s life, not through anybody else’s prism. It’s through her prism. It’s the characters who impacted her life that you know and a lot that you don’t know. And the music is so cinematic.”
In other news, the BBC has confirmed that a documentary is in the works focusing on Bowie’s years in Berlin in the late 1970s, which is expected to premiere next year.
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