Day 02 → Your favourite movie

Velvet Goldmine

IMDB says: 1971: Glamrock explodes all over the world and challanges the seriousness within the flowerpower generation by means of glitter and brutal music. Brian Slade, a young rockstar, inspires numerous teenage boys and girls to paint their nails and explore their own sexuality. Unable to escape the role he created for himself, he plots his own murder. When his fans discover that the murder is a fake, his star falls and he is forgotten about. 1984: Arthur, a journalist working for a New York newspaper, gets assigned the story about the fake murder of Brian Slade. When Arthur was young and grew up in Manchester, he was more than a fan of Slade. Reluctantly he accepts the assignment and starts to investigate what happened his old glamrock hero.

The first time I saw Velvet Goldmine I was probably 15. I tried catching it on TV whenever it was on, sadly that was usually pretty late so I didn’t watch it nearly as much as I wanted to. Well, I have the DVD now anyway…

It’s colorful, fun and has great music. I love Ewan McGregor as Curt Wild, best freak-out on stage since Iggy Pop (obviously since Ewan McGregors stage performance was modeled after Iggy Pop…).

That movie is probably also why I got into David Bowie, even though he distanced himself from it. Well, don’t care, still love the movie.