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Adam Lambert pens article about 'key inspiration' David Bowie

'Never Close Our Eyes' superstar Adam Lambert has paid homage to one of his 'key inspirations', music icon David Bowie, by writing a brief article about him for Out magazine.

Bowie released his new record, 'The Next Day', on March 11 in the UK and it's already set to be this week's British No.1 single according to the Official Charts Company, proving that his longevity is down to consistency and greatness.

Writing about the 'Changes' legend, Lambert explains that his father first introduced him to the songs: "My father is a huge Bowie fan, and about the time I first got interested in what he was listening to, he pulled out the 'Diamond Dogs' album. The cover was just so cool and trippy and weird."

"I was maybe 8 or 9, but I didn’t really start appreciating Bowie for myself until my early twenties, when I was getting into glam rock. A light bulb went off—I wasn’t into drag, I didn’t want to dress like a woman, but I wanted to express my gender and artistic identity differently than the mainstream. Bowie was a key inspiration."

Lambert also confessed that he was intrigued by Bowie's representation of sexuality, adding: "It was about the androgyny of mixing it up, and that was what was so incredible about his concepts -- he was one of the first rock stars to really push the idea that sexuality was not black and white but an exploration."

 

 

 

 

Watch Lambert perform a medley of David Bowie songs at a 2009 concert in Long Island here: