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Real Life Parallels
Aug. 22nd, 2004 01:06 amscript:
CECIL
Brian, I tell you, I think it’s simply a matter of presentation, and with the proper back up-
BRIAN
Back-up! What happened to Judy Garland! What happened to all your bloody torch song rubbish!
Despite Brian's rage and humiliation that line is hysterically funny. The source of it was what Bowie's first manager, Ken Pitt, saw in his protégé:
"... amid the uncouth, feedback-fixated young yobbos and ersatz Mississippi Blues belters of Britain's new pop culture, here at last might be something worthy of a cultured show business professional's loyalty and toil: a personality, an artiste, a Star, a – corny but true – Judy Garland for the rock generation."
From Angela Bowie's eminently readable Backstage Passes
Brian, I tell you, I think it’s simply a matter of presentation, and with the proper back up-
Back-up! What happened to Judy Garland! What happened to all your bloody torch song rubbish!
Despite Brian's rage and humiliation that line is hysterically funny. The source of it was what Bowie's first manager, Ken Pitt, saw in his protégé:
"... amid the uncouth, feedback-fixated young yobbos and ersatz Mississippi Blues belters of Britain's new pop culture, here at last might be something worthy of a cultured show business professional's loyalty and toil: a personality, an artiste, a Star, a – corny but true – Judy Garland for the rock generation."
From Angela Bowie's eminently readable Backstage Passes
