Thursday 2 December 2010

'U2 owe David Bowie a lot'

Band owe most of their success to David Bowie revealed by the U2's Bono.

The frontman of the band praised that it is the Bowie who brought new style of singing in our band and the success of that can be seen since last 30 years.

He told Rolling Stone: "U2 owe him a lot. He introduced us to Berlin and Hansa Studios; to collaborating with Brian Eno.

"It's the high singing, beyond your 'man' voice into the feminine. And there's the staging, the attempt to be innovative.

"Bowie wasn't afraid to use scale, to dramatise things. His setlist was not just a jukebox he could run through. It was drama."

The 'Vertigo' star also described Bowie as a UK version of Elvis, because he caused a "radical shift" in the music scene.

He continued: "It's not exaggerating to say what Elvis meant to America, David Bowie meant to the UK and Ireland. It was that radical a shift in consciousness.

"The first time I saw him was singing 'Starman' on television it was like a creature falling from the sky. Americans put a man on the moon. We had our own British guy from space - with an Irish mother."

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