"Kiss your sons and [your] daughters good bye, good bye."

played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Brian Slade is much like David Bowie. We watch Brian evolve from "frock"-wearing-hippie to a glitterful, shimmering, glimmering, glamourous, plat-formed rocker, who shocks parents to Maxwell to has-been to... (well, you'll just have to see the movie). Maxwell Demon is Brian's stage persona (much like David Bowie's Ziggy Stradust). Brian made a record called The Ballad Of Maxwell Demon, and ever since fans were getting Brain confused with his space-age rock persona Maxwell Demon. To escape this confusion, Brian had to "kill" his character Maxwell, by "assassinating" him onstage