‘He was David Jones, a normal bloke’: how Ricky Gervais and David Bowie became friends

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In 2006, Bowie played himself on Gervais' BBC comedy series Extras. The sequence would turn out to be his last ever filmed appearance

Pathetic little fat man, no one’s bloody laughingSo depressed at being useless, fatso takes his own lifeHe sold his soul for a shot at fameHe’s banal and facile, he’s a fat waste of spaceWell, there’s a charming little ditty to write about your mate. Yet that was the nature of the surprisingly sweet, late-blooming friendship between David Bowie and Ricky Gervais.

 

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