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Music: George Underwood interview; LOCATION UNKNOWN: INTGeorge Underwood (Artist, musician, and lifelong friend of David Bowie) interview via internet SOT Q: That's perfect. So about his house, what importance did this house have on his career?A: Well, The thing is, it's not so much the house itself, although it is important. It was it was the bedroom inside the house, which was his sort of domain, you know, and his his imaginative processes took place and, and everything that we were discovering at the time, you know, his bedroom was, you know, like he had a radio and he had a tape record. He had a grunting tape recorder, very old fashioned one in today's standards, but it was really functional because we, you know, used to used to be called songs and The Everly Brothers and we used to try and emulate them, you know, and try and pretend that we were them. And then he had he said one day to me, he said George I've discovered this thing, I don't know how, whether it was on the radio or or or or ATV or whatever thing called music concrete which probably you have never heard of, have you? I don't expect but it was invented by French giant 40s late 40s. Basically you take any sound that's out there. And you change it to make it different. So how can I explain what happened? He said. Look what you do, and you got this clock and I got the microphone, put it inside the clock, right. So you hit a tick tock, tick, tock, tick tock. And they recorded that, slowed it down and mucked around with it, cut it around with it until it became something out and boom, booms. So, so he was fooling around with sounds even in those days. And, you know, I mean, we met, we, we met in 1956 when we were both nine years old, you know? And you know, rock'n'roll was just rearing its head. You know, Elvis Presley was recording his first records. We had Lonnie Donegan and Skiffle in this country and you know, eventually all the American stuff came over. David was really into Americana ...