It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.
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A lot of the people I'd love to work with, like John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, aren't alive, unfortunately.
Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.
Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.
In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.
No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.
I feel like Elvis. Only alive.
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
I've always been a firm believer that soul music never dies. The artists we still listen to today, years after their music was first heard are mostly soul artists; Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Chaka Khan. We still sing along to all of them with our hearts.
There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.
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