1977: Bowie on Berlin, addiction, and dropping personas
David Bowie’s 1977 interviews around the Berlin period find him quieter than the Ziggy years: talking about the move to Berlin, fighting addiction, and wanting to drop theatrical personas that had defined earlier albums. He frames the work with Brian Eno and the Low / “Heroes” stretch as a bid for creative reset, not another costume change for the press. The tone is almost detached. It remains a clear window onto the start of his most experimental late-70s run.
