“A shriekin' and dancing till 4am”
As this week is the 30th anniversary of Tin Machine’s highest UK album chart position (#3), it’s a good time to mention a couple of Tin Machine things celebrating the anniversary that may have passed you by.
The July 2019 issue of UNCUT magazine has a 6-page feature and here’s the introduction to it:
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Fawlty Towers viewing marathons! Boat trips with Gary Oldman! Riots on Sunset Boulevard! These are just some of the ingredients in the story of how DAVID BOWIE pulled himself out of his ’80s malaise with TIN MACHINE – a band of “fucking heathens” who paved the way for his creative rebirth in the following decade. Here Reeves Gabrels, Hunt and Tony Sales, Kevin Armstrong and producer Tim Palmer reveal all to Rob Hughes about Bowie’s creative motivations. “David said, ‘Let’s put an end to rock’n’roll. I really want to fuck with it!’”
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Here are the concluding paragraphs from the piece:
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“I look back on the Tin Machine years with great fondness,” Bowie told Uncut. “They charged me up. I can’t tell you how much… Reeves shook me out of my doldrums, pointed me at some kind of light, said, ‘Be adventurous again’… I’ve been finding my voice, and a certain authority, ever since.”
“David said it’d take 25 years before people came around to Tin Machine,” says Reeves Gabrels. “I remember he used to have the Low rejection letter from RCA framed on his wall at his home in Switzerland. They’d sent that to him before it came out, so he’d been through the same thing before. Now it seems as though people are finally appreciating what Tin Machine was all about.”
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The July issue of Uncut has been out for three weeks but you can order a copy online.
Also, Reeves Gabrels spoke to ilikeyouroldstuff.com while he was over in Sydney with The Cure. Read the very funny full thing here.
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