Bono Remembers Bowie, Says Bowie Didn’t Like Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark

Bono photo by Paolo Pellegrin

Bono has eulogized David Bowie in the latest issue of Rolling Stone. “I’ve played at being a rock & roll star, but I’m really not one. David Bowie is my idea of a rock star,” it begins.

In addition to revisiting his introduction to Bowie via “Top of the Pops,” and praising Blackstar and “Life on Mars?,” the U2 frontman recalls his interactions with the artist during the Achtung Baby sessions and beyond.

He also reveals that Bowie wasn’t a fan of Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark, the Broadway musical that Bono and the Edge scored.

“He took his daughter to a matinee to see Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” Bono recalls, “and he sent me the reasons he didn’t like it. And everything he said was really helpful, because it was in the early days of the show.”

(He also proffers a sweet anecdote about how Bowie nicknamed Bono’s daughter “Pixie.”)

Read the entire piece here.

Trent Reznor’s Bowie remembrance will also run in this issue of Rolling Stone.

Read our “Afterword” feature on Bowie, plus tributes from Nile Rodgers, Bradford Cox, Carlos Dengler, Thurston Moore, Carlos Alomar, and Jonathan Lethem.

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