Letter: Bowie (2)
‘Love on ya!’ Read another wonderful letter that David Bowie sent to a fan
Judging by the letters he writes, David Bowie is one of music’s true gems. A week or so ago we posted a response by the artist to the first piece of fan mail he’d received from an American admirer, in 1967. It’s truly lovely. Read that here
Now Letters of Note have unearthed another response to a fan letter (this one’s from 1974) that’s just as sincere and charming. If the above is hard to read, allow us to cut and paste the transcript from Letters of Note:
Dear Suzy,
Thank you for your letter.
Please forgive the amount of time that has elapsed since I received it but as you know I am either on the road performing or in the studio recording singles and albums until I sit down with a stack of fan mail every two or three weeks, I don’t realise how much has accumulated.
At the moment I am finishing me new album and I hope you are enjoying “Rebel Rebel”, which will be included in the album. I am mad on it. Hope you are.
I want you to all know and tell your mates that the mail I’ve been receiving about performing live again is starting to get to me. I can’t promise but I think you lot will lure me back!
You know it is your letters and cards and applause after each show which makes me able to carry on and devise new ideas and schemes to entertain you and make me happy. DON’T EVER STOP.
Love on ya!
(Signed, ‘Bowie’)
