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Interview (DB=David Bowie; T=Simultaneous Translator; AC=Adriano Celentano)
DB Hello
AC Hello... Do you think there is a future?
DB Ahah for me? Ya. For you?
T For me? And for you?
AC Yes
DB Ok ahah
AC In the world, we know there are so many people, there are too many people suffering from hunger, dying of hunger.
DB Ya
AC Do you think, in your opinion, this could change? Do you think there will be a way? Have you tried to think about it?
DB Yes absolutely. Only if this adds at a governmental and political level a commitment to actually make some change. If this is half-hearted the change will be half-hearted but it's a major universal commitment that needs to be made. But who to instigate that? It has to come from the people we elected to power to make that commitment.
T Of course, only if there was a governmental political commitment to make this change. This is the only way to bring about change. So there must be a deep universal commitment, but who should initiate this? It has to be the people in power who start this movement.
AC And why do you think people are slow to give this movement? Perhaps because of the greed to be...
DB Don't ask me!
T Don't ask me!
AC No, of course not, I'm asking you these questions because many times I ask myself, I try, I wonder, I say, I try to organize, like, as if it were something in the kitchen, as if you had to prepare food, how could the world's problems be resolved. I try to organize them that way because Iām not a politician, because I also get surprised when I watch television and see certain things, certain things we've seen here too. Uhm, many times I ask myself how, how could it be done, and here, for example, I think, for instance, I'll tell you what I think, I think that if all the rich people in the world came together to think a little about those who are suffering, uh, maybe this could be done, uh, I mean, itās an organizationā¦ it seemsā¦
DB I think it'd be very important for anybody to tie at least a percentage of what they make every year towards organizing a charity world course towards [ā¦] a course but it makes even better sense if, of say, a country that has its national product of something like two hundred billion dollars ties a small percentage of that [ā¦] But it really needs to be instigated at a governmental level. But [ā¦] of course, an individual should do something.
T It would be very important, everyone should attempt to donate a percentage of what they earn each year to, letās say, charitable organizations for various causes. It would be even better if a country with a high GDP, about two hundred billion dollars, excuse me, donated a percentage of this GDP to those who are poorer. However, action must still be taken at the governmental level, it must be the government that starts these things, but of course individuals can also do a lot, individual people that is.
AC Yes, of course, I agree. And do you think we can do something to stop wars in the world, always, uh, this tooā¦
DB I don't know!
T I donāt know.
AC No, you canāt do it? So how do we do it?
DB I'm not the person to ask!
T Iām not the right person to ask these questions.
AC And now we are underā¦
DB I'm getting radio Moscow
AC But I, but I donāt wantā¦
T I have radio Moscow in my, in my ear, I have radio Moscow interfering.
AC No, but I donāt want toā¦
DB I've lost it. They're gone.
T I lost them, theyāre gone.
AC Yes, no, but I donāt want to ask you a question to get an explanation, I just want to know what you think. I know that you are someone who thinksā¦
DB Ahah
AC You have the face of someone who thinks. I'm not asking you to have the right answer or to have the right formula to save the world, I just want to know, just want to know what you thinkā¦
DB I promise, I promise that I won't start any wars!
T I promise that I won't start any wars! Th
