What David Bowie Learned from the Gugging Psychiatric Institution BY LIAM WARD - Messy Nessy

 Bowie and Eno adventures in Resolving the Creative Block

Sometimes articles reveal so much about the artistic process and this extraordinary piece is so interesting and revealing about the collaboration and work between the two great artists. This is why I appreciate and admire the blog Messy Nessy so much . . . . . . 

Museum Gugging

"By 1994 David Bowie’s musical career was in a bit of a quiet phase, let’s say. He hadn’t managed to recreate the massive success of his 1983 album Lets Dance. Ziggy Stardust had long since departed back to the cosmos, The Thin White Duke had been retired, and Bowie’s latest incarnation, Tin Machine, had disbanded. In short, he needed an idea, and if you are David Bowie where do you go for ideas? A previous collaborator and go visit a psychiatric hospital, of course.”

Eno and Bowie by Christine de Grancy

Eno and Bowie by Christine de Grancy

Johann Korec

Johann Korec

Oswald Tschirtner

Photographs of Bowie’s visit by photographer Christine de Grancy. 

Written by Liam Ward

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