Corey Glover is the lead singer of the biggest and badest black rock band of all

time living color. They roared into America's consciousness in 1988 with an

incendiary song called

Cult of Personality. Once that came out nothing was ever the same again.

But it was a record that was challenging to black and white audiences and it was also challenging to be the lead singer of a band that everyone thought of as belonging to the genius on lead guitar, Vernon Reed. It was Vernon's band and that

caused a lot of tension. We get into that tension inside the band and

explain why they broke up in 1995 and why they got back together in 2000.

We also talk about Corey's role in platoon, Oliver Stone's incredible movie about Vietnam. But we start with Corey playing David Bowie or

singing his part in a Bowie band with the guys from the Bowie band behind him on tour

in recent weeks.

That's a heavy job.

It's Corey Glover from Living Color on Tour A Show. You've been rocking out with the Bowie band singing David Bowie's parts with his band.

That sounds like a tremendous amount of pressure to go on tour singing Bowie,

which is asking a lot, with his guys who know him, musically, personally, everything, right behind you.

How's that going?

Weird.

They like, they're very encouraging, which is good, but you know I'm not going to sound like

David there's no there's no way I am going to sound like David but they

encourage what David encouraged which was like the sense of experimentation with it

and letting it breathe and so it took some time it took a little bit of time for me to for them to get

acclimated to me and me to get acclimated to them. I'm not I'm one of many

singers that are on that are on the gig and you know I'm doing particular songs that sort of, I don't know, guess that fits my wheelhouse in the idiom of David Bowie.

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