17 Comments General Comment: Bowie explained at the 2000 BBC gig which I was lucky to be invited to, that this song was quite literal - he was so out of it and paranoid that he drove round and round pretty much as he described in this song, crashing into the same car again and again. I think the driver pissed him off, or something. Sure, it also seems to be about the recklessness of cocaine addiction as well. But it is still a masterpiece. It was great to hear it again, live. General Comment: Uh ok, first of all, this was his Berlin era, and he was about to get AWAY from the drugs. So he wasn't on a trip! And don't you know the story about him and Iggy Pop? In Berlin they saw the car from a former drug dealer who betrayed them. So Bowie got mad and crashed in his car again and again... . Then he drove circles in a hotel parking garage till Iggy Pop screamed like a litte girl, ha! (ok the screamin i don't know, but the rest "should" be true.) General Comment: Thin White Duke ... had to come back to "make obvious" this point. "Thin" and "White" are of course references to those thin white lines of cocaine that were the mainstay of his mid-late 70's addiction phase. I'm guessing he put this particular character into the spotlight at first as a means to come to terms with his addiction