TONYA MOSLEY, HOST:

That is FRESH AIR. I am Tonya Mosley. Fifty years in the past, David Bowie retired his alter ego Ziggy Stardust dwell on stage to a surprised viewers and band mates.

(SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, “ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS”)

DAVID BOWIE: Everyone, this has been the one of many biggest excursions of our life. We actually…

(APPLAUSE)

BOWIE: Of all of the exhibits on this tour, this specific present will stay with us the longest as a result of…

(APPLAUSE)

BOWIE: …Not solely is it the final present of the tour, nevertheless it’s the final present that we’ll ever do.

MOSLEY: That second and the complete efficiency was captured by documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker. Now, that movie, “Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars,” together with the soundtrack, have been restored and reissued as a part of a fiftieth anniversary version. Ziggy was one in every of Bowie’s early gender-bending alter egos, mixing androgyny and science fiction. He wore elaborate eye make-up and lipstick and dyed his hair crimson. However even earlier than Ziggy, Bowie had develop into an icon of glam rock, after posing on the quilt of his 1970 album “The Man Who Offered The World” carrying a robe and make-up.

Bowie died in 2016 of most cancers simply after his 69th birthday. He had a genius for reinventing his sound and his picture. His best-selling music was a mixture of funk, dance and digital, with influences of cabaret and jazz. This is the title observe from the brand new fiftieth anniversary restored model of the movie.

(SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, “ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS”)

BOWIE: (Singing) Oh, yeah. Ziggy performed guitar, jamming good with Bizarre and Gilly and the Spiders from Mars. He performed it left hand, however made it too far. Turned the particular man, then we have been Ziggy’s band. Ziggy actually sang, screwed-up eyes and screwed-down hairdo, like some cat from Japan. He might kill them by smiling. He might go away them to hold. Nicely, he got here on so loaded, man – (inaudible) and a snow-white tan. So the place have been the Spiders…

MOSLEY: Terry Gross spoke with Bowie in 2002, main as much as the thirtieth anniversary of “The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars.” She requested him how he got here up with the character of Ziggy.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST)

BOWIE: Nicely, I suppose the easy one-liner is that myself and my mates and I suppose a sure contingent of the musicians in London firstly of the ’70s have been fed up with denim and the hippies. And I believe we form of wished to go some place else. And a few of us, I believe – us extra pompous, arty ones…

TERRY GROSS: (Laughter).

BOWIE: …In all probability learn an excessive amount of George Steiner and form of bought the concept that we have been getting into to this type of post-culture age and that we higher do one thing post-modernist (laughter) shortly earlier than any individual else did.

GROSS: So did you see the form of gender facets of your efficiency – you realize, dressing, you realize, generally carrying a night robe, generally, you realize, typically carrying lipstick, dyeing your hair, a number of eye make-up – did you see the gender stuff as being an announcement about post-modernism or an announcement about sexuality?

BOWIE: Nicely, neither. I believe they have been simply gadgets to create this new distancing from the subject material. There was a form of a diffidence, an concept that actually hadn’t been considered earlier than, that the historical past of rock may very well be recycled differently and introduced again into focus with out the baggage that comes together with it. It was a way – a really sturdy sense, of irony, I believe. Nicely, it turned the inspiration of two or three of us. I imply, I am cautious of the phrase glam as a result of I believe that turned the all-inclusive time period for any bloke with lipstick on, which is ok, you realize, and that is what it’s when it comes right down to the general public degree. The general public – clearly, they take issues in a really simplistic vogue, and so they need to. That is why we’ve got such great tv.

(LAUGHTER)

BOWIE: ? However I believe that, as I say, there have been some – I suppose it was, you realize, form of that artwork college form of posturing that the Brits normally have. And it was I suppose individuals like myself and Roxy Music that had a distinct agenda about taking on music. I believe all of us have been form of – properly, perhaps. I am unable to communicate for Roxy, in fact, however a few of us have been failed artists or reluctant artists. , the alternatives have been both, for many Brit musicians at that time, portray or making music. And I believe we opted for music, one, as a result of it was extra thrilling. And two, you possibly can truly earn a residing at it.

However I believe we introduced quite a lot of our aesthetic sensibilities to it by way of that we wished to fabricate a brand new form of vocabulary, a brand new form of forex. And so the so-called gender-bending, the choosing up of perhaps facets of the avant garde and facets of, for me personally, issues just like the Kabuki theatre in Japan and German expressionist motion pictures and poetry by Baudelaire and – oh, God, it is so way back now. All the things from Presley to Edith Piaf went into this mixture of this hybridization, this pluralism about what in truth, rock music was and will develop into. That wasn’t actually a quite simple reply to something in any respect, was it?

GROSS: No.

BOWIE: Sorry about that.

GROSS: Nevertheless it was a great reply.

BOWIE: Nicely, it was a pudding, you realize. It actually was a pudding. It was a pudding of recent concepts. And we have been terribly excited. And I believe we took it on our shoulders that we have been creating the twenty first century in 1971. That was the concept. And we wished to simply blast every thing previously, fairly just like the Vorticists did firstly of the century in Britain, or the Dadaists did in Europe. , it was the identical sensibility of, every thing is garbage, and all garbage is great.

GROSS: Now, earlier than you turned David Bowie, while you have been – I imply, while you have been working – while you have been taking part in with different bands earlier than forming your personal, did you do the denim…

BOWIE: I used to be…

GROSS: …Factor? , did you put on T-shirt and denims on stage?

BOWIE: Very, very not often, truly. No, it wasn’t actually one thing that I – as a result of I by no means believed it. It all the time felt such as you have been attempting too onerous to appear like the viewers or one thing. That complete factor concerning the inventive integrity, which in fact, I’ve by no means purchased into with any artist – it is simply not an actual factor.

GROSS: So let me cease you and see if I bought this straight. Carrying a T-shirt and denims appeared phony to you…

BOWIE: Yeah.

GROSS: …However carrying mascara and eye make-up appeared proper.

BOWIE: Ah, I did not say that carrying – a glamorization of the rock artist was any more true than the opposite factor.

GROSS: Oh, OK. Proper. It is artifice…

BOWIE: They’re each – it is all artifice.

GROSS: Nevertheless it’s an artifice that you just imagine in. Yeah.

BOWIE: Yeah.

GROSS: Proper. Obtained it. Yeah.

BOWIE: Yeah. I believe my essential level could be is that the T-shirt and jeans factor in my thoughts was additionally an artifice.

GROSS: Proper.

BOWIE: I did not really feel comfy in that as a result of I did not really feel like one of many working males. I imply, I might by no means be a blue collar-y (ph) form of Springsteen-y sort artist as a result of I do not imagine I’m that, and I do not imagine I might ever characterize that. And it’s merely illustration.

GROSS: What was your loved ones background?

BOWIE: I’m wondering.

GROSS: (Laughter).

BOWIE: Nicely, my father labored for a youngsters’s house known as Dr. Barnardo’s Houses. They seem to be a charity.

GROSS: I see.

BOWIE: He was a charity employee, in truth. My mom was a housewife. Each from – properly, my father was from a farming household, agricultural household within the north of England. And my mom got here from a really working class.

GROSS: What have been you listening to while you have been a teen?

BOWIE: Oh, wow. It was so – I believe the one music I did not take heed to was nation and Western, and that holds to at the present time. It is a lot simpler for me to say that. The form of music I did not take heed to was just about that. I imply every thing, from jazz to classical to standard. And Tibetan horns have been a fantastic a part of it in 1966, ’67 (laughter). I like Tibetan horns. I believe Tibetan horns are one of the vital great sounds on the earth, and Tibetan chanting. It is nice.

GROSS: I’ve examine one thing that I am certain lots of people have requested you about, which is that while you have been 16, you have been in a combat that blinded you in a single eye and, I believe, paralyzed the muscle. I do not know, although, what occurred within the combat. Did you usually get into quite a lot of fights while you have been that age or was this an uncommon improvement?

BOWIE: Nicely, firstly, no, I used to be 13, not 16.

GROSS: Oh, OK.

BOWIE: And it was – my greatest pal hit me as a result of I might pulled his girlfriend. So I believe in all probability in his thoughts he had each proper to try this. And the best factor…

GROSS: And, yeah, how horrifying was it to…

BOWIE: Nicely, it was, you realize, very uncomfortable (laughter). The perfect factor – a part of it, in fact, is that we nonetheless remained very shut buddies. And I am unable to keep in mind – it have to be 40 years later.

GROSS: And also you misplaced the imaginative and prescient in that eye?

BOWIE: Just about so, yeah.

GROSS: As an artist, how – has it been troublesome to see what you wish to see, to have full depth notion, for creating and for trying?

BOWIE: (Laughter).

GROSS: Have you learnt what I imply? Is it…

BOWIE: I in all probability absorb extra in a single eye than most individuals do with two, so I believe I am all proper.

MOSLEY: David Bowie talking with Terry Gross in 2002. There is a new fiftieth anniversary version of the live performance movie “The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars.” Extra after a break. That is FRESH AIR.

(SOUNDBITE OF DAVID BOWIE SONG, “REBEL REBEL”)

MOSLEY: That is FRESH AIR. We’re listening to Terry’s 2002 interview with David Bowie. He had launched the album “Heathen.” The live performance, movie and soundtrack “The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars” has now been restored in a fiftieth anniversary version. This is one other track from it.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “CHANGES”)

BOWIE: (Singing) Nonetheless do not know what I used to be ready for. Time was working wild – one million dead-end streets. And each time I assumed I bought it made, it appeared the style was not so candy. Then I turned myself to face me, however I by no means caught a glimpse of how the others should see the faker. I am a lot too quick to take the take a look at. Modifications. Flip and face the unusual adjustments. Did not wish to need to be a richer man. Modifications. Flip and face the unusual adjustments. Simply wished to be a greater man. Time could change me, however I am unable to hint time.

GROSS: Getting again to “Ziggy” once more, which is again in theaters, you realize, the story of Ziggy Stardust is the story of, you realize, somebody who turns into very well-known. , it is the story of rock ‘n’ roll fame – turns into very well-known, after which fame turns into his downfall. He is form of killed, in a method, by fame. What did that fable that you just created imply to you on the time? Is that the best way you noticed rock ‘n’ roll fame?

BOWIE: Nicely, I can solely actually have a look at it the best way I have a look at it now, which is, I believe, independently of myself, Ziggy Stardust has his personal life. He is his personal creation. And you realize what? Good luck to him.

GROSS: (Laughter).

BOWIE: However frankly, for me, I form of closed the door on him in 1973.

GROSS: Proper.

BOWIE: And I am very pleased that he is having such success and that folks nonetheless like him and all that. I heard he bought married. Anyway…

GROSS: (Laughter).

BOWIE: I personally have one other life, you realize, which does not belong to Ziggy Stardust. And I do are likely to not likely get that concerned in what I’ve accomplished previously. I do form of go away that as much as different individuals, and that is a lot how I really feel about Ziggy. I form of desire the viewers, and perhaps writers or commentators or no matter, to make what they’ll of the Ziggy Stardust interval and character as a result of it truly would not curiosity me a lot now.

GROSS: Is having an alter ego much less necessary to you than it was once?

BOWIE: I believe a lot has been made from this alter ego enterprise. I imply, I truly stopped creating characters in 1975, for albums anyway. The one time that I’ve adopted characterization once more since that time for my very own albums has been an album known as “Outdoors” that I did with Brian Eno just a few years in the past, which actually had a myriad – perhaps one too many characters. Nevertheless it had quite a lot of characters on that, and I performed all of the elements. However that was accomplished as a sonic theatrical piece of music. However the character factor actually is type of, for me personally, fairly historical historical past. Nevertheless it’s form of – I suppose over right here particularly in America, the soundbite-y (ph) factor actually form of stays round. And also you’re recognized by the – you are outlined by the 2 or three issues that the most important quantity of individuals learn about. And that form of is who you might be publicly. And mine is basically Ziggy Stardust, characters, “Let’s Dance.” That is me within the American…

(LAUGHTER)

BOWIE: …Frankly, within the American eye. However in truth, in Europe, I am extra form of this bloke what writes a number of stuff. And I form of – I suppose, I – you realize, a better variety of the 26 or so albums that I’ve made are recognized in Europe than they’re in America.

GROSS: Your new CD was produced by Tony Visconti, who labored with you out of your first album via…

BOWIE: And myself. It was a co-production.

GROSS: Good. Thanks. From – so that you labored collectively out of your first album via your 1980 album “Scary Monsters.” How did you get hooked as much as work once more now?

BOWIE: Nicely, we began speaking concerning the risk, and we type of reunited about 5 years in the past. And we had since that time been speaking about the potential of doing one other album collectively. And I used to be the one which was actually fairly reticent about doing it as a result of I am very conscious of how properly considered quite a lot of our earlier stuff is by the viewers for these specific albums, the issues that we did within the ’70s and early ’80s. And I did not in any method wish to cheapen or tarnish the fame that we had. And so it took me a really, very very long time to determine the best way in to re-collaborating once more. And it appeared to me that the very best factor to do was take the emphasis off the manufacturing aspect of issues and put it on high quality and power of songs. So I stockpiled or began stockpiling songs that I assumed actually have been good, sound items of labor, in order that we went into the studio with a really particular finish level in view, and we actually did not need to lean again on the previous in any respect.

GROSS: How is your sense of your self as a performer totally different now on the age of 55 than it was while you have been in your 20s and getting began and being – while you have been in persona and doing the entire, you realize, eye make-up and dyed hair and attire, while you…

BOWIE: That was for 18 months, truly…

GROSS: Proper.

BOWIE: …Which, out of a profession of almost 40 years, just isn’t very lengthy. Nonetheless, I am going to reply your query. I am not truly a really eager performer. I like placing exhibits collectively. I like placing occasions collectively. In reality, every thing I do is concerning the conceptualizing and realization of a bit of labor, whether or not it is the recording or the efficiency aspect. And form of once I put the factor collectively, I do not thoughts doing it for just a few weeks. However then fairly frankly, I get extremely bored as a result of I do not see myself a lot as a – I imply, I do not dwell for the stage. I do not dwell for an viewers. That actually would not…

GROSS: Can I cease you and say that I am actually stunned to listen to that?

BOWIE: Most individuals are.

GROSS: As a result of – yeah, as a result of I all the time considered you as any individual who actually relished the theater side of efficiency…

BOWIE: No.

GROSS: …And who very efficiently made theater part of music efficiency.

BOWIE: Frankly, if I might get away with not having to carry out, I might be very pleased. It isn’t my favourite factor to do. As I say, I do not thoughts attempting it out and ensuring one thing appears to work properly. However I actually do fairly wish to transfer on as a result of I believe it is fairly a waste of time endlessly singing the identical songs each evening for a 12 months. And it is simply not what I wish to do. What I like doing is writing and recording and way more on the – I suppose, on that artistic degree. It is enjoyable decoding songs and all that, however I would not prefer it as a residing.

MOSLEY: David Bowie speaking with Terry Gross in 2002. We’ll hear extra of their dialog after a break. A fiftieth anniversary version of the movie and soundtrack “The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars” has not too long ago been restored and reissued. OK. A little bit later, classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz critiques a brand new assortment of Verdi opera choruses, and Justin Chang checks out the brand new movie comedy “Bottoms.” I am Tonya Mosley, and that is FRESH AIR.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “LIFE ON MARS?”)

BOWIE: (Singing) It is a god-awful small affair to the woman with the mousey hair. However her mummy is yelling no, and her daddy has advised her to go. However her pal is nowhere to be seen. Now she walks via her sunken dream to the seat with the clearest view. And he or she’s hooked to the silver display.

However the movie is a saddening bore for she’s lived it 10 occasions or extra. She might spit within the eyes of fools as they ask her to concentrate on sailors preventing within the dancehall – oh, man, have a look at these cavemen go. It is the freakiest present. Check out the lawman beating up the improper man. Oh, man, marvel if he’ll ever know he is within the best-selling present. Is there life on Mars?

MOSLEY: That is FRESH AIR. I am Tonya Mosley. Let’s get again to Terry’s 2002 interview with David Bowie. A fiftieth anniversary version of the movie and soundtrack “The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars” has not too long ago been restored and reissued. The movie was made by the legendary movie director D.A. Pennebaker, who died in 2019. Let’s hear one other of Bowie’s hit songs.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “YOUNG AMERICANS”)

BOWIE: (Singing) They pulled in simply behind the bridge. He lays her down, he frowns. Gee, my life’s a humorous factor. Am I nonetheless too younger? He kissed her then and there. She took his ring, took his infants. It took him minutes, took her nowhere. Heaven is aware of, she’d have taken something, however all evening, she needs a younger American. Younger American, younger American. She needs the younger American. All proper. However she needs the younger American. All the best way from Washington. Her breadwinner begs off the lavatory flooring. We dwell for simply these 20 years. Do we’ve got to die for the 50 extra? All evening, he needs the younger American. Younger American, younger American. He needs the younger American. All proper. All proper, properly, he needs the younger American.

GROSS: Did you develop up considering of your self as a singer? Or did you begin singing since you wished to sing, you realize, since you wished to carry out?

BOWIE: No, I would like – I begin – what I wished to do once I was 9 years outdated, I wished to be the baritone sax participant within the Little Richard band.

GROSS: (Laughter).

BOWIE: I in all probability additionally wished to be Black at that exact time as properly (laughter). And so I bought my father to assist me out with the saxophone. And we purchased it over, like, a two-year interval. We had one thing in Britain then known as the hire-purchase system, or HP. And I purchased it on HP, which is like, you pay two and sixpence every week.

GROSS: Oh, shopping for it on time?

BOWIE: Yeah, over, like, a thousand years. So on the finish it prices you perhaps twice as a lot as in the event you might have afforded money (laughter).

GROSS: Proper.

BOWIE: And I began taking part in round with native rock bands, you realize, with the alto. After which, in a nutshell, any individual fell sick one evening, the lead singer of one of many bands. And so they knew I might sing, so that they requested me if I’d stand in. And I fairly loved it, truly, I need to say, at 14. It was an actual journey, you realize, to have women wave at you and smile and every thing simply since you opened your mouth and sang. And – however actually, I suppose – however, no, I actually wished to do, greater than anything, up till I used to be round 16, 17, was write musicals.

GROSS: Was write music?

BOWIE: Musicals.

GROSS: Oh, musicals.

BOWIE: I actually wished to write down musicals. That is what I wished to do greater than anything. And it form of – as a result of I favored rock music, I form of moved into that sphere, in some way considering that someplace alongside the road, I might be capable of put the 2 collectively. And I suppose I very almost did with the Ziggy character. However I had such quick consideration span and bought disinterested so shortly after I created some form of mission that I wished to maneuver on. And I by no means actually bought the ebook collectively for the factor. So I had all of the songs and the characters, however by the point we would gotten it on the highway and I might been doing it for 18 months, oh, God, I could not wait to maneuver on to one thing else.

GROSS: So while you say you wished to write down musicals, did you wish to write, like, Rodgers and Hart form of musicals or “Hair?” I imply, what was…

BOWIE: No, that was my level.

GROSS: Yeah.

BOWIE: No, my level was I wished to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

GROSS: Oh, I see. Yeah, proper.

BOWIE: And I assumed that I might do some form of car involving rock musicals…

GROSS: Proper.

BOWIE: …And presenting rock and characters and storyline in a totally totally different vogue.

GROSS: So was singing one thing you began doing to return – in order that you possibly can try this form of theater?

BOWIE: It was – properly, it was the conception. I imply, God, I’d like to have handed it onto any individual else, and I suppose Ziggy would have been the right car to have accomplished with. I do not know why, to at the present time, I did not discover another child, after I might accomplished it for like six months, and mentioned, right here you might be. Put the wig on, and ship him out and do the gigs, you realize? I imply, it could have been a lot one of the best factor to do. After which I might have moved on faster to one thing else. However that comes again to what I used to be saying. I wanted to sing as a result of no one else was singing my songs.

GROSS: Proper.

BOWIE: So I needed to do it myself.

GROSS: You have been briefly in a mime group earlier than…

BOWIE: Sure, the Lindsay Kemp Mime Firm.

GROSS: Yeah, earlier than changing into a solo musician.

BOWIE: Yeah. Nicely, truly all of it form of ran – I tended to be – I appeared to be form of concerned in so many issues all on the similar time, which remains to be how I form of function in the present day. I simply – I am unable to maintain my fingers out of any pies.

GROSS: Nicely, are there issues that you just realized or turned conscious of via that mime group that you just mentioned, yeah, I actually like that. I’ll work with that in my very own performances?

BOWIE: I believe every thing that I realized about stagecraft and carrying via – making a via level for a theatrical gadget. I believe Lindsay Kemp actually launched me to the work of Jean Genet. And thru that, I form of saved reeducating myself about different prose writers and poets. He instigated – he opened an terrible lot of doorways for me by way of a brand new method to what I might do. I might by no means have accomplished what I did with out being concerned with Lindsay Kemp’s firm.

GROSS: Whereas we’re as regards to mime…

BOWIE: Yeah.

GROSS: I’ve to say that within the “Ziggy” film, you do do these palms strolling throughout the glass wall factor.

(LAUGHTER)

BOWIE: I do know. That is my proudest second of the Ziggy Stardust film.

GROSS: The dreaded mime factor.

BOWIE: Yeah – properly, mime over right here; is not it?

(LAUGHTER)

BOWIE: I do know. It is so totally appalled over right here.

GROSS: (Laughter).

BOWIE: , we did not know that in England as a result of we like it over there.

(LAUGHTER)

BOWIE: And it broke our hearts once we came to visit right here and realized that mimes have been form of tantamount to some form of inventive criminals.

GROSS: As a result of rock ‘n’ roll began as a youth music, all people all the time puzzled, properly, will rock ‘n’ roll proceed to dwell? And what concerning the artists themselves? What about after they cross 30? What about after they cross 40 or after they cross 50? Is that a difficulty for you? Do you are feeling like you could have satisfactorily discovered a approach to be a person in his mid-50s taking part in your music with out feeling like what you are taking part in is – you realize what I am saying – that…

BOWIE: Nicely…

GROSS: …You are taking part in music…

BOWIE: I believe I do. Yeah.

GROSS: …That speaks to who you might be and the place you are actually.

BOWIE: Having not likely written any generational songs – I believe perhaps two or three of the songs that I’ve ever written have any bearing on the age of the listener. My stuff tends to be way more involved with the religious and with topics like isolation and being depressing. So I believe that type of touches on actually any age group. So in my phrases, they’re simply songs. The car for these songs is a music that did certainly begin as youth tradition music. Nevertheless it has aged properly in itself. No, it is simply what I do. I imply, I would not know write and play every other form of music, frankly.

GROSS: David Bowie, thanks a lot for speaking with us.

BOWIE: My pleasure.

MOSLEY: David Bowie talking with Terry Gross in 2002. He died in 2016. The movie and soundtrack “The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars” has been restored and reissued in a fiftieth anniversary version.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “FAREWELL SPEECH/ROCK ‘N’ ROLL SUICIDE”)

BOWIE: (Singing) Time takes a cigarette, places it in your mouth. You pull in your finger, then one other finger, then your cigarette. Nicely, the wall-to-wall is asking. It lingers, however nonetheless you neglect. Oh, you are a rock ‘n’ roll suicide. You are too younger to lose it, however you are too outdated to lose it. And the clock waits so patiently in your track. Nicely, you stroll previous the cafe, however you may’t eat while you’ve lived too lengthy. Oh, you are a rock ‘n’ roll suicide. Now the Chev brakes are snarling as you stumble throughout the highway. However the day breaks as a substitute, so that you hurry house. Do not let the daylight blast your shadow. Do not let the milk float trip your thoughts. They’re so pure, religiously unkind. Oh, no, love. You are not alone. You are watching your self, however you are too unfair. You bought your head all twisted up. But when I might solely make you care – oh, no, love. You are not alone, it doesn’t matter what or who you’ve got been, irrespective of when or the place you’ve got seen. All of the knives appear to lacerate your mind. I’ve had my share. Now I am going to enable you to with the ache. You are not alone.

MOSLEY: Developing, Lloyd Schwartz critiques a brand new assortment of Verdi’s opera choruses. That is FRESH AIR.

(SOUNDBITE OF DAVID BOWIE’S “BRILLIANT ADVENTURE”)

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