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Jan. 10, 2021, marks the five-year anniversary of the death of singer and musician David Bowie. Many online began marking his death by reliving important moments from his decades-long career, particularly when Bowie spoke up against racial inequality in the music industry. Around the time of his death in 2016, MTV shared a 1983 interview clip between Bowie and one of its VJs (video jockeys), Mark Goodman, in which Bowie takes the television channel to task for not featuring enough Black artists. The interview went viral again in January 2021. The full interview is available on MTV's official YouTube channel, but MTV also shared the moment that went viral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZGiVzIr8Qg&list=FLf9E7t2XT3fEpk7s95hMUSg&index=373 At the time, the television station was only two years old. After an interview about his work and persona, Bowie wanted to ask Goodman a question of his own, about MTV not playing enough videos of Black artists: A transcript of key moments of the conversation is reproduced below: By the end of the interview Bowie, who would later be married to Somali model Iman, did not seem entirely satisfied by Goodman's responses. Given that the interview was released on MTV's official YouTube channel, we rate this claim as True.
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