Singing For Satan---Part 13

This week I continue my once-per-month series of posts regarding an informal study I undertook in the early 1990s regarding rock and pop music. The purpose of my study (and the background to it) can be read in the first installment of August 7, 2017. If you have not read that post, I strongly encourage you to do so before reading this installment. I will only repeat here the seven (7) evil elements that pervade today's music:

1. Violence/Murder/Suicide
2. Nihilism/Despair
3. Drug and alcohol glorification
4. Adultery/ Fornication and sexual perversion
5. The occult
6. Rebellion against lawful superiors
7. Blasphemy against God, Jesus Christ in particular, and the Church

 The exposing of the bands/artists continues.

David Bowie

 David Robert Jones was born January 8, 1947, and became one of the most influential of all individuals in rock music, according to Rolling Stone magazine. Due to the popularity of Davey Jones, a member of the made for television, pop-rock band The Monkees (who imitated The Beatles), David Jones changed his last name to Bowie, after the famous Bowie knife. It is said the idea for the name came to him when The Rolling Stones' lead singer Mick Jagger was being given the nickname "Jagger the Dagger" in the U.K. 

Born in Brixton, South London, Bowie was always interested in music, and had natural talent. He didn't become famous until he created the persona of "Ziggy Stardust," an androgynous "space god" alter ego featured on his fifth (and very successful) album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972). With his career launched, he went on to sell over 140 million albums worldwide, and he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. He continued working in music his whole life. He released his 25th and last album entitled Blackstar on his 69th birthday. He went to Judgement two days later, on January 10, 2016 as the result of complications arising from liver cancer. He had kept his illness a secret having been diagnosed 18 months earlier. Bowie also acted in movies; one of his most memorable (and infamous) roles was as Pontius Pilate in the blasphemous film The Last Temptation of Christ (1988). 

Bowie: Making "Gay" OK

The androgynous and openly bi-sexual predator and pervert, David Bowie

 Bowie was one of the first artists to openly declare himself "bisexual" and sport an androgynous look that was part of the so-called "glitter rock" movement of the 1970s. He wore feminine make-up and produced some songs that would be the forerunner of disco music in the late 1970s. (See Time Magazine, July 18, 1983 issue).  In that same issue of Time, Bowie reveals he met his first wife, Angela Barnett "while they were laying the same bloke" (i.e., engaged in a menage a trois---three people having sex with each other).  Bowie and Barnett had a live-in friend named Tony Visconti. Visconti said life with the married couple was sheer debauchery. "Thursday night was gay night. David would go to a gay club, Angie to a lesbian club, and they would bring home people they found. [I] had to lock the bedroom door because these people they brought back home with them would come climbing into new beds looking for fresh blood." (Ibid,pg. 58).  Bowie also slept with his lead guitar player Mick Ronson, and once claimed to have committed a homosexual act with him while in concert. It is alleged that he slept with his at one time hero, Mick Jagger. 

According to a posthumous biography, David Bowie: A Life, by Dylan Jones, Bowie was a sexual predator. 

The book, well-sourced, states:

• During his prime, the rock star would engage in orgies, have multiple affairs at once, and even invite others to watch him have sex with women

• "He used his bisexuality...he used his appeal to get what he wanted," writer Wendy Leigh said

• Bowie's reputation landed him an offer to sleep with the warm dead body of someone who just died (i.e. necrophilia) when he was on tour in Philadelphia - but he declined

• He slept with girls as young as 13 when he was in his 30s--statutory rape

• Had multiple affairs on his girlfriends, usually sleeping with both men and women while living with the girlfriend

• He deflowered a 15 year old virgin admirer, Lori Mattix, after getting her high on champagne and marijuana  

Bowie: Too Drugged Out For Other Junkies

John Lennon and Elton John, both friends of the pervert, were horrified by the extent of Bowie’s cocaine habit. (Keep in mind both Lennon and John were drug addicts!). According to Lennon’s then girlfriend May Pang, no one had ever "seen such mounds of the stuff" as Bowie consumed. While living in Los Angeles in 1975, Bowie experienced the worst of his cocaine psychosis. He did more cocaine than anyone, and it almost killed him. Staying with Glenn Hughes (musician for the rock group "Deep Purple") who lived half a mile from where the Manson murders took place, David Bowie wanted to bury all the sharp knives. He feared the Manson family might come to get him – even though they were now all in jail. He weighed 95 lbs and was snorting 7 grams of coke a day. He snorted so much cocaine, the cartilage of his nose had to be replaced surgically with cartilage from other places in his body. 

While high he would watch films of Hitler and the Nazis, whom he admired. He called the German Fuhrer "the first Pop star" because of his massive mesmerizing theatrical political rallies where he hypnotized the citizens of Germany with his words.

His song Ashes to Ashes --according to Bowie himself--is about "astronauts becoming junkies;" obviously written during one of his drug-induced psychotic episodes.

The shrieking of nothing is killing, just
Pictures of Jap girls in synthesis and I
Ain't got no money and I ain't got no hair
But I'm hoping to kick but the planet it's glowing
Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
We know Major Tom's a junkie
Strung out in heaven's high
Hitting an all-time low
Time and again I tell myself
I'll stay clean tonight
But the little green wheels are following me
Oh no, not again
I'm stuck with a valuable friend
"I'm happy, hope you're happy too"
One flash of light but no smoking pistol (Emphasis mine)

Bowie: Satanist and Occultist

Left: Satanist and occultist Aleister Crowley; Right: David Bowie as he posed for a picture to be placed on  his album Space Oddity. He imitates his "hero."

 Bowie has bounced around many religions. He said, " I was young, fancy free, and Tibetan Buddhism appealed to me at that time. I thought, 'There’s salvation.' It didn’t really work. Then I went through Nietzsche, Satanism, Christianity… pottery, and ended up singing. It’s been a long road" (See interview with lesbian Ellen DeGeneres https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVLLoVvHSOw; Emphasis mine). 

In 1976, Bowie had said, "My overriding interest was in Kabbalah and Crowleyism. That whole dark and rather fearsome never–world of the wrong side of the brain.." In 1995 he stated, "I’ve been interested in the Gnostics." (See NME, 1976 and November 1995). The Kabbalah is an occult and anti-Christian Jewish text. "Crowleyism" refers to the teachings of the Satanist and Occultist Aleister Crowley (d.1947). Gnosticism was a heretical movement of the 2nd-century Christian Church, partly of pre-Christian origin. Gnostic doctrine taught that the world was created and ruled by a lesser divinity, the demiurge, and that Christ was an emissary of the remote supreme divine being, esoteric knowledge (gnosis) of whom enabled the redemption of the human spirit.

The androgynous nature of his alter ego, Ziggy Stardust, represents-- in the world of the occult-- a state of higher spiritual level. In occultism, the highest stage of illumination is achieved through the internalization of duality and the equilibrium between opposing forces –  good and evil, active and passive, male and female.Contrarily to "Major Tom," the fictitious character in many of Bowie's songs (who ascended from Earth to the skies), Ziggy Stardust descends from the "heavens." He is a "higher being" who takes the form of a human in order to communicate a message, a counterfeit version of Jesus Christ.

In his song Quicksand, Bowie sings:

I’m closer to the Golden Dawn
Immersed in Crowley’s uniform
I’m not a prophet or a stone-age man
Just a mortal with potential of a superman

When Bowie states that he is "immersed in Crowley’s uniform," he is referring to Aleister Crowley, who was a member of the Golden Dawn (an occult society) and a founder of the O.T.O (Ordo Templi Orientist--a Satanic society with possible ties to Freemasonry). In 2003, a 56 year old David Bowie gave an interview in which he claimed he was "almost an atheist." He said, "I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months." (See http://www.beliefnet.com/entertainment/2005/07/im-not-quite-an-atheist-and-it-worries-me.aspx).

Bowie's Evil Music

 In the song Seven, he rejects all the "gods" he followed, including Christianity (Bowie claims to have been Christian at some point, but was raised without any faith):

The gods forgot they've made me
So I forgot them too
I listen to the shadows
I play among their graves

The song Underground is about Hell, but it's not seen as bad, but a place where "nothing ever hurts again." Yet, he asks "daddy" to help him leave. We know who Bowie's "daddy" really is: "Thou art of thy father the devil, and thy will is to do thy father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies." (St. John 8:44).

But down in the underground
You'll find someone true
Down in the underground
A land serene, a crystal moon
A-ha
It's only forever
Not long at all
Lost and lonely
That's underground, underground
Daddy, daddy, get me out of here (heard about a place today)
Ha, ha, I'm underground (nothing ever hurts again)
(Nothing ever hurts again) well, I found a place
(Daddy, get me out of here) nothing ever hurts again
(Hoping for the underground) down and down and get me out of here
(Hoping for the underground) ha, ha, I'm underground

Released two days before his death, Blackstar is David Bowie’s last song  in which he wraps up the mythology he has cultivated for five decades. The video of the same name is a tapestry of dark images. At the center of it all: A human being becoming a "god."  It also asks "How many times does an angel fall?" A reference to Satan.

Something happened on the day he died
Spirit rose a metre and stepped aside
Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried,
"I'm a blackstar, I'm a blackstar."

How many times does an angel fall?
How many people lie instead of talking tall?
He trod on sacred ground, he cried loud into the crowd,
"I'm a blackstar, I'm a blackstar, I'm not a gangstar."

Conclusion

Some claim that Bowie converted and believed in God when faced with death. I have serious doubts about that. He requested that his ashes be scattered on the Indonesian island of Bali in line with "Buddhist rituals." I shouldn't be surprised anymore at the stark double-standard the world has for those of the world and those merely in the world as True Christians. David Bowie is the supreme pervert, to the point of statutory rape and deflowering teenage girls (some as young as 13), and he continues to be lionized by the media. Where's the outrage? If a conservative politician says something even slightly off-color, the National Organization for Women is up in arms with all the media, but a child rapist gets a free pass.  

How does a Traditionalist, or any decent parent, allow their children to listen to the rotten music that is rock, pop, and hip-hop? Bowie worshiped the devil, openly and admittedly, at one point in his life (I doubt he ever stopped). Remember the chilling words spoken by Satanist rocker Marilyn Manson in his autobiography: "Each age has to have at least one brave individual that tried to bring an end to Christianity. No one has managed to succeed yet, but maybe through music we can do it." (Emphasis mine).