My driving forces in the 1970s? Lust, anger, moodiness

Rock legend Bowie's revelation in newly unearthed interview

- BY MARK JEFFERIES Showbiz Editor

DAVID Bowie credited lust as one of the great motivations behind the songs he recorded in his early years as a rock singer, a newly unearthed interview reveals.

The star, whose first hit was Space Oddity in 1969, had a string of classics in the early 1970s such as Starman and Life on Mars?, before his Berlin Trilogy of albums including Heroes in 1977.

He said in the interview: “I think that throughout the 60s and most of the 70s I was driven by lust as much as anything.

“It's a great creative force. That in turn is replaced by anger... when you ask where the money is.

“And then you get depression, and then you go to Berlin and write really moody instrumental stuff. It’s the triptych of the 70s - lust, anger, moody.”