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Why Is David Bowie Wrong

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David Bowie was an exceptionally brilliant artist and musician who left behind an amazing body of work so, naturally, we’re curious as to what Bowie put into his body and mind. Here’s a look at some of the psychoactive compounds Bowie ingested over the years, and his views on drugs. A LITTLE DAB WILL DO YOU Bowie was never a big pot smoker, preferring “fast drugs” instead. But he does recall his introduction to weed, which came through non other than Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones. Sometime in late 1960’s London, Zeppelin’s bassist invited the pot neophyte to “come over and I’ll turn you onto grass.” Bowie and Jones smoked three fat bombs together at Jonesy’s flat and, overcome with munchies, Bowie consumed two loaves of bread. Then the phone rang. …show more content…

“During the making of Young Americans [1975],” Visconti recalls, “He [Bowie] was taking so much cocaine it would have killed a horse. Cocaine certainly almost killed me . . . for us there was no limit.” John Lennon, Bowie and Visconti hauled up in a studio all night in 1975 to record the hit single Fame. “We did mountains of cocaine,” recalls Visconti, “It looked like the Matterhorn, obscenely big, and four open bottles of cognac.” 1974 to 1977 proved to be Bowie’s “Golden Years” for cocaine excess. He did so much blow that, according to Bowie, “even Keith Richards was floored by it.” But the cumulative effects of abuse were beginning to take its toll. “I paid with the worst manic depression of my life,” Bowie recalls. “My psyche went through the roof, it just fractured into pieces. I was hallucinating 24 hours a day.” By 1976, Bowie was in the grips of cocaine psychosis, with its inherent paranoid delusions. He saw bodies fall past his hotel window, accused fellow musicians of being FBI agents, and lit black candles to fend off a coven of witches he thought were attempting to steal his sperm for a Rosemary’s Baby style

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