David Bowie

Perry Farrell is a lifelong fan of David Bowie, to the point that he was once an impersonator. However, he later had the misfortune of angering his idol, ...

“It was not like I was talking to him and said something wrong,” Farrell explained at the beginning of his account, recalling that the first incident happened when he forgot his Blackberry in a taxi to the airport. This meant that when he eventually came into the orbit of his hero years later, Farrell kicked himself extra hard when he pissed him off on two occasions. He’s capable of full-bodied, cerebral moments that whisk the listener away to celestial otherworlds, as well as highly visceral points where he sounds like a banshee, with his voice and Dave Navarro’s guitar converging to create a pulsating mass of air.