PBS高端访谈:缅怀大卫·鲍威,一个不断改变的人

 JUDY WOODRUFF: One of the most influential¹ and revolutionary musical artists of his generation, David Bowie, died yesterday after an 18-month battle with cancer.

In a career that spanned more than five decades, the sale of more than 140 million albums, and included an ever-changing and sometimes androgynous look that led to glam rock and many other iconic moments, David Bowie remained an original to the end.

Jeffrey Brown has our remembrance.

JEFFREY BROWN: Constantly changing, but somehow always uniquely himself, David Bowie was one of the culture's heroic figures for decades, appearing in many guises³, shapes and forms, leaving a mark on rock music and well beyond.

He was born David Jones in South London in 1947, and rose to fame first in 1969 as Major Tom in the hit song "Space Oddity," and then, memorably⁴, in the early '70s as another otherworldly character, Ziggy Stardust.

PBS高端访谈:缅怀大卫·鲍威,一个不断改变的人

"Rolling Stone" music critic Anthony DeCurtis:

ANTHONY DECURTIS, "Rolling Stone": Suddenly, here's David Bowie, kind of a much more complex, subversive⁵ figure than many of those artists were. And he really gave a lot of energy for what was going to drive music, well, until now, really, but certainly through the '70s.

When he came on the scene, it was like, this is the future.

NARRATOR: Nothing you have seen or heard about David Bowie will prepare you.

JEFFREY BROWN: In 1976, Bowie stepped into another artistic⁶ world, acting⁷ as the pale alien in the film "The Man Who Fell to Earth."

Then, in the '80s, he became a music video and fashion icon², cementing his mainstream⁸ pop star status with a string of hits, telling his fans, let's dance. His range of pursuits, very much including a visual sensibility, also attracted those in the art world.

Michael Darling is with Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, which hosted an exhibition on Bowie.

MICHAEL DARLING, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art: The thing that made Bowie such a good subject for a museum exhibition is the variety of his output. We had costumes. We had stage designs, graphic⁹ designs, handwritten lyrics¹⁰, and things like that.

JEFFREY BROWN: The range, the showmanship, playfulness all were hugely influential. Madonna spoke¹¹ to it when Bowie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.

MADONNA, Musician: Before I saw David Bowie live, I was your normal, dysfunctional, rebellious¹² teenager from the Midwest. And he has truly changed my life.

JEFFREY BROWN: Today, other musicians and artists spoke to Bowie's influence, including some of the day's biggest stars.

ANTHONY DECURTIS: It's one thing to be influential in rock 'n' roll, but when you start affecting the pop world — and by that, I mean people like Madonna or Lady Gaga — Bowie was an extremely important figure for them.

This idea that you could continually reinvent yourself, that every time you stepped out on the stage, it was a stage, and which character are you going to be playing? That was anybody's guess. Bowie never seemed old. That sense of reinvention really made him seem of the time at every time.

MICHAEL DARLING: So many artists these days are working across different media. They're making videos. They're doing performances. They're painting. They're taking photographs. And David Bowie was already, you know, as early as the 1960s, doing that kind of work.

JEFFREY BROWN: Tributes also came from fans, some at a mural in his hometown, even some from very high places, such as British Prime Minister David Cameron.

DAVID CAMERON, British Prime Minister: David Bowie was a genius. For someone of my age, he provided a lot of the soundtrack of our lives.

JEFFREY BROWN: Bowie was married for more than 20 years to the supermodel Iman, with whom he had a daughter. He also had a son from a previous marriage.

He had remained active in recent years, he'd kept working. The song "Lazarus" appears on his last album, a collaboration¹³ with a jazz quartet called "Blackstar," which was released this past Friday, on Bowie's birthday.

David Bowie died of cancer Sunday night. He was 69 years old.

1 influential   

adj.有影响的，有权势的

参考例句：

• He always tries to get in with the most influential people.他总是试图巴结最有影响的人物。
• He is a very influential man in the government.他在政府中是个很有影响的人物。

2 icon   

n.偶像，崇拜的对象，画像

参考例句：

• They found an icon in the monastery.他们在修道院中发现了一个圣像。
• Click on this icon to align or justify text.点击这个图标使文本排齐。

3 guises   

n.外观，伪装( guise的名词复数 )v.外观，伪装( guise的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• She took pleasure in the various guises she could see. 她穿各种衣服都显得活泼可爱。 来自辞典例句
• Traditional form or structure allows us to recognize corresponding bits of folklore in different guises. 了解民俗的传统形式或结构，可以使我门抛开事物的不同外表，从中去辨认出有关民俗的点点滴滴。 来自英汉非文学 - 民俗

4 memorably   

难忘的

参考例句：

• The book includes some memorably seedy characters and scabrous description. 这本书包含了一些难忘下流的角色及有伤风化的描述。 来自互联网
• Horowitz could play Chopin memorably. 霍洛维茨可以把肖邦的作品演奏得出神入化。 来自互联网

5 subversive   

adj.颠覆性的，破坏性的；n.破坏份子，危险份子

参考例句：

• She was seen as a potentially subversive within the party.她被看成党内潜在的颠覆分子。
• The police is investigating subversive group in the student organization.警方正调查学生组织中的搞颠覆阴谋的集团。

6 artistic   

adj.艺术(家)的，美术(家)的；善于艺术创作的

参考例句：

• The picture on this screen is a good artistic work.这屏风上的画是件很好的艺术品。
• These artistic handicrafts are very popular with foreign friends.外国朋友很喜欢这些美术工艺品。

7 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

8 mainstream   

n.（思想或行为的）主流；adj.主流的

参考例句：

• Their views lie outside the mainstream of current medical opinion.他们的观点不属于当今医学界观点的主流。
• Polls are still largely reflects the mainstream sentiment.民调还在很大程度上反映了社会主流情绪。

9 graphic   

adj.生动的，形象的，绘画的，文字的，图表的

参考例句：

• The book gave a graphic description of the war.这本书生动地描述了战争的情况。
• Distinguish important text items in lists with graphic icons.用图标来区分重要的文本项。

10 lyrics   

n.歌词

参考例句：

• music and lyrics by Rodgers and Hart 由罗杰斯和哈特作词作曲
• The book contains lyrics and guitar tablatures for over 100 songs. 这本书有100多首歌的歌词和吉他奏法谱。

11 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

12 rebellious   

adj.造反的，反抗的，难控制的

参考例句：

• They will be in danger if they are rebellious.如果他们造反，他们就要发生危险。
• Her reply was mild enough,but her thoughts were rebellious.她的回答虽然很温和，但她的心里十分反感。

13 collaboration   

n.合作，协作；勾结

参考例句：

• The two companies are working in close collaboration each other.这两家公司密切合作。
• He was shot for collaboration with the enemy.他因通敌而被枪毙了。