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Bem que seria genial uma parceria musical entre o lendário David Bowie e o inconfundível duo Daft Punk. Mas a arte, por enquanto, é um tanto diferente.

Rolou na noite de ontem, em Londres, uma premiação chamada Music Week Awards. Um dos agraciados no evento foi Rob Stringer, presidente da major Columbia Records e um dos caras mais conceituados no mercado da música. O discurso de “agradecimento” pelos serviços prestados por Rob foi feito por nada menos que David Bowie. O cantor e compositor britânico falou de sua admiração pela trajetória de Rob, contou como se conheceram e tudo mais. Mas a grande “notícia” disso tudo foi a reprodução do discurso do Bowie na íntegra feita hoje em seu Facebook oficial.

Junto com o texto, que pode ser conferido em inglês no fim deste post, Bowie postou uma foto reeditando a capa do single “Heroes” vestindo roupa e capacete como se fosse um Daft Punk. Ambos fazem parte do cast da Columbia. Vai que…

* A mensagem de Bowie, abaixo:

“When I first knocked on the door of his office at Sony, New York, you can imagine my surprise when a member of Daft Punk opened it. In silence he brought me in and indicated that I should take a seat on the comfy armchair to the right of the chairman’s desk, around which he moved and took his place in the chairman’s chair.

He removed the shiny helmet.

It was Rob.

‘This,’ he said ‘is how far I will go for my artists.’ I found out that during the course of that day Rob had not only guested as an executive third Daft Punk member at a lunchtime gig at a club in Manhattan, but had also led a Dylanology symposium at Barneys clothing store, sung falsetto on a new London Grammar track and choreographed a touching interpretive dance number to One Direction’s ‘They Don’t Know About Us’ for the cast of Glee.

Knowing him for the man he is, it came as no surprise that he had won tonight’s most prestigious award, The Strat.

If you become the object of his enthusiasm an artist will find a genuine long-term support that is sadly missing in the recording industry.

When he asked me if I minded if he took a few Saturdays off from his duties as percussionist on my new album this year in order to catch the Luton Town football club fixtures, how could I refuse? It’s the least I could offer to the man who with his own hands pulled my album to number one throughout the world.

Congrats for The Strat, Rob. You’re a star.

David Bowie 2014”

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