That was a little drive.

A giant was everybody in the on the outside world out there.

They crash real tight to the monitor, and I pushed my way through.

And there's this, Like, just trying to watch this little strange journey we took.

Thanks, Max, for the rebel thing.

I'm not pleasure.

You get a royalty on that?

You were with Springsteen, right?

Yes.

Yeah, My drum.

Also, Zachary was also with Springsteen.

Not at the same time, is you.

That's right.

Anything?

There was a drummer in the wings to replace Max if anything went wrong.

What is wondered who that guy waas sitting there comes along?

Hopefully every week.

You have the coolest hair in rock and roll.

Thank you.

Say that because he doesn't have Hey, doesn't think so.

The guy there.

What?

There's one guy in there.

No, he thinks he can do a little better because he has no hair.

Yes, he's looking for his moose right now.

First of all, congratulations.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Congratulations.

The birthday concert.

I want to talk about this your 50th birthday.

Most people get a cake.

You know, in a dreary party you have a massive Square Garden Super concert.

That's on pay per view.

This is when you know you've made it.

When your birthday is on a za pay per view event, That's the sign that you've actually accomplished something.

The garden thing meant a lot to me in a way, because my first trip to America in 71 I flew over especially to see the comeback show of Elvis on it was on in the garden.

So we share the same birthday.

So we wouldn't Elvis have the same birthday.

Yeah, we Yeah.

We were drinking buddies way back.

I used to fly over to Memphis and we'd go out for the night on the razz Big Cadillac Cadillac.

Is there any truth to any of this?

No, I'm just told that it's true.

I just had to ask.

It's such a cool image.

Don't be a telegram.

Uh huh.

Okay.

I understand, you know?

Yeah.

Now I believe nothing.

In fact, you're not David Bowie.

Here.

Here comes right off.

Yeah, e, I wanna ask.

You know, one of the things you've done that's so amazing when you think you've reached this point in your career, you've managed to stay relevant in music, and it's probably through all the different transformations you've made.

You know, the different characters that you've portrayed.

Two years ago I joined Relevance Anonymous way.

We just sit and share our ideas and everybody else with network and give us feedback and suggestions of how we keep relevant who didn't get into relevance.

Anonymous.

Anybody have got to stop right there.

Yeah, I want this to get really mean really fast.

I want Thio, actually, Just just take a brief walk down memory lane.

But first of all, just to look at some of the different characters.

Let's put these up because it's good to refresh everybody's memory.

Of course there was the young David things You really on thin?

There was Ziggy Stardust, of course.

Come on.

Thunder was the thin white duke, Of course.

My personal favorite on Then there was a period there where you were trying different.

You were trying different personas.

Don't do this.

You know I don't care if other people remember this.

We reviewed this once on the show, but you were you were trying to personas that I don't think quite had the commercial appeal.

There was the suave Hunchback.

Remember this little thing?

Yeah, there was the bucktooth wizard.

I remember he was.

And then this is strange.

Your corn on the cob, period, I found I don't No way.

It was your favorite.

The corn on the cob.

Yes.

Yeah, You're free to use any of these, by the way, if you want very much.

I don't know if this is true, but I love find these things out.

You actually, when you were just starting out, you started in a mind Troop?

Yeah, we worked in a mine troop.

There were several mind troops in Britain and it turned into a kind of a war between mind troops the war, the mine wars of 1968.

Remember those Paris things?

The Paris riots?

That wasn't that wasn't actually a student socialist thing.

It was actually, it was the mine wars of Paris on it was all these mimes or after Jean Geno so that they could do the first version of the maid's.

Uh, you're gonna let me go with this?

I'm gonna let you go and go run around each other.

We're gonna get prayer pricks, uh, way down.

Throwing each other in silence.

were you actually in a mime troupe?

Did you do the thing in the box?

You never did the thing in the box.

Did the thing in the bus get out of here.

We're gonna ask you to leave now.

You don't want to do the thing in the booth if you forgot it.

Yeah.

Okay.

Hey, that was pretty good.

You have to make this face.

Who?

Yeah, that thing.

Yes, Yes.

You legally dio you're in a lot of trouble.

You did.

There was a There was, ah, piece on the pay per view show that was quite visually interesting.

Scary monsters thing this was with what was it?

That puppet?

There's, ah, media artist in America that I like very much called Tony Haussler.

It's interesting that in the sixties, all the painters and all the artists were really well known, like Andy Warhol on, I guess, uh, in the in the eighties, it was Jeff Koons and Julian Schnabel.

But right now it's almost impossible to think of a current artist who's a household name in quite the same way.

I'm just That's just on a side.

Really, Conan, we had a clip here.

Do you want to explain.

What do you want to show this clip here?

Liz, I don't know if this needs setting up, but it's visually.

We'll just look at it, okay?

Look at it.

That's disturbing.

That was another person that's gonna be your next persona.

Is that what you said ahead getting stepped on?

Yeah, We're just going to get one of Tony's models to actually do the vocals and I'll be underneath on the floor and the whole thing will work out.

Yeah, I wanted to ask you there was something that they were playing here in America on MTV round the clock for a while.

And it was something I've always wondered about you singing Christmas songs with Bing Crosby on.

And this is something that I guess you probably did in 76 sometime around.

Then what was that like?

Because it's such a strange thing to look at your almost polar opposites in some way.

And there you are together singing these Christmas songs.

Do you remember doing this and what it was like?

I remember I remember doing it.

The communication factor was very strange.

If I had Mawr communication in a way with Tony house was, uh, dummies.

But it was that he didn't know who I waas.

He couldn't remember my name.

Uh, hey.

Just sat on the stool the whole day, and I would be How were you brought into him?

Eso It wasn't him saying I love this whole Ziggy service thing.

I want to meet this guy.

He just loved the heroes, period.

Yeah, E.

It was very influential on being a very big He was tried for months to get, you know, to work with him on his next on his next album.

I would love to find those recordings.