Posted on 07/05/2002 3:10:56 PM PDT by pragmatic
LONDON (AP) - Veteran rock star David Bowie said on Friday he would never live in Britain again because its news media are so obsessed with celebrities.
The singer, who has lived in the United States for a decade, said he and his family would have no private life if he came back to his native Britain.
"The pure inconvenience of having a camera lens stuck in either my face or my wife and child's face every morning, I think would certainly be a deterrent to me wanting to come back to live here on a permanent basis," he told the British Broadcasting Corp.
"Even being here a couple of days, I mean, this is a really different place. It's astounding how media driven London is," he added.
Bowie, who was in Britain promoting his new album "Heathen," likened much of British pop music to "cruise ship entertainment."
"I listen to really odd stuff and a lot of it is out on the edge," he told the BBC. He said he knew about Australian pop diva Kylie Minogue and chart topping British singer Robbie Williams.
"You can't get away from that when you hit the shore, so I know all about the cruise ship entertainment aspect of British pop," he said.
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