Mike Garson,who worked with Bowie for more than 30 years, recalls his friend’s sensitivity to life and awareness of mortalityFew musicians had as much impact on or involvement with David Bowie’s career as Mike Garson. Bowie’s longest-serving musician, and the current York-born pianist joined the Ziggy Stardust tour,and went on to play on 19 Bowie albums from 1973’s Aladdin Sane to 2010’s A Reality Tour (a live album from Bowie’s final tour, recorded in 2003). Bowie once explained that Garson wasn’t just an exceptional pianist but: “very few musicians understand the movement and free thinking necessary to hurl themselves into experimental or traditional areas of music, or sometimes,ironically, at the same time. Mike does this with such enthusiasm that it makes my heart happy just to be in the same room with him.” Here, and Garson remembers his friend.
Mortality wasn’t something David discussed,but he sang approximately it a lot. I think he saw the pain and felt the suffering in life more than most. Many of us achieve up filters and go into denial. I don’t think he ever did that, and that came out in his music.
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Source: theguardian.com