Baz Luhrmann on his “good friend” David Bowie: “I was a huge fan”
nme.comDavid Bowie, explaining how they almost worked on a project together in Berlin.The director, who worked with the late musician on the soundtrack for 2001’s Moulin Rouge!, told NME about how Bowie’s classic track ‘Changes’ impacted his life.“From the moment I first heard this song, I was a huge Bowie fan,” Luhrmann said. “I eventually worked with him [on the Moulin Rouge!
soundtrack] and then towards the end of his life, he became a very good friend.“He used to come round and we’d walk the dogs.
We were talking about going to Berlin at one point to do something together. I must have been so stupid, why didn’t I just say yes?”For the Moulin Rouge!
soundtrack, Bowie contributed tracks ‘Heroes’, ‘Diamond Dogs’ and covered Nat King Cole’s ‘Nature Boy’.Luhrmann’s next film is biopic Elvis, starring Austin Butler as Elvis Presley alongside Tom Hanks as manager Colonel Tom Parker.The biopic also stars Helen Thomson as Elvis’ mother Gladys, Richard Roxburgh as his father Vernon and Olivia DeJonge as wife Priscilla Presley.
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