Oh, I'd love to enter politics. I will one day. I'd adore to be Prime Minister.

And yes, I believe very strongly in fascism. The only way we can

speed up the sort of liberalism that's hanging foul in the air at the moment is to speed up the progress

of a right wing, totally dictatorial tyranny, and get it over as fast as possible. People have always

responded with greater efficiency under a regimental leadership.

A liberal wastes time saying,

well now, what ideas have you got?

Show them what to do for God's sake.

If you don't, nothing will get done.

I can't stand people just hanging about. Television is the most successful

fascist, needless to say. Rock stars are fascists too. Adolf Hitler was one of the first rock stars.

Look at some of his films and see how he moved. I think he was quite as good as Jagger.

It's astounding. And boy, when he hit that stage, he worked to an audience. Good God. He was no politician. He was a media artist himself.

So that was the rock star David Bowie interviewed in Playboy in September 1976.

And, you know, the big question, what's going on there?

Did he really mean it?

Was he playing a part, perhaps, as he loved to do in the 1970s, the decade of Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin'sane.

And of course, the part he's playing here is the thin white Duke, who Bowie described as a very

aryan fascist type.

Or was he just completely off his head on Coke and Speed?

So many questions, Dominic. But whatever the explanation, the thing is that

he was saying quite a lot of things like that in 1975 and 1976. So here he is being interviewed by

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