One of my favorite Christmas songs is the Little Drummer Boy duet with Bing Crosby and David Bowie.
Just this last Christmas season, I watched it on YouTube. I was thinking how young David Bowie looked. Heck, he was young, it was 1977 after all. Bing died just a few months after that was taped.
Now Bowie is gone. Maybe together somewhere, they're singing Little Drummer Boy again.
Maybe together somewhere, they're singing Little Drummer Boy again.
And then again; maybe not.
Bing was a Catholic
Bowie? Who knows, really...
Regarding religion, in 2005 he said, "Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always." He added that he was bothered by being "not quite an atheist".
[223] In the
Esquire interview "What I've Learned", he stated, "I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or
Catholic."
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Bowie showed an interest in Buddhism that began in 1967. He frequently studied in London under the Tibetan Lama Chime Rinpoche before becoming a solo artist. During a 2001 interview, Bowie claimed that "after a few months of study, he told me, 'You don't want to be Buddhist ... You should follow music.'"[225] Bowie later wrote the song "Silly Boy Blue" in tribute to Rinpoche on his 1967 album David Bowie. Bowie also became a student of the crazy wisdom Tulku Chögyam Trungpa.[226]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie#Religion