REBEL REBEL INTERVENTION –
April 20, 2026 – “I remember on Dark Side of the Spoon, I actually had David Bowie sitting next to me, going, ‘I’ve been there, mate. And seriously, there’s no future. You need to stop,’” Jourgensen tells Far Out with a sheepish smirk of disbelief, even nearly 30 years later. “So when David Bowie tells you that, your ears perk up.” It turned out that Bowie was in the same Chicago studio working on a live cut and wanted to introduce himself to the band. There was plenty of common ground. Not only had Bowie not long dabbled in the industrial world himself, having toured with Nine Inch Nails a few years earlier, but the Cracked Actor had plenty of sage advice to offer the Ministry captain on the topics of getting clean.
Bowie was living a life of complete sobriety since 1993, following a boozy 1980s and a crippling cocaine addiction during the 1970s, so consuming that he allegedly barely remembered recording Station to Station and necessitated his decamp to Berlin for a creative and physical detox.
