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Speaker 1: alien chameleon phenomenon, the man who fell to Earth and
Speaker 1: pioneered glam rock and who never stopped changing throughout all
Speaker 1: the years. But this is not about David Bowie. This
Speaker 1: is about Angie Bowie, self described architect of lifestyles, whose
Speaker 1: wild spirit and radical style inspired the interstellar gender bending
Speaker 1: experimentations that would propel her husband to superstardom. This story
Speaker 1: is about a girl. The first time she ever saw
Speaker 1: his face, it was in a polaroid on the wall
Speaker 1: of an A and R man from Mercury Records. She
Speaker 1: was screwing at the time. She was hoping they and
Speaker 1: our man might give her a job. She'd met him
Speaker 1: by screwing his boss, and she really needed a job,
Speaker 1: preferably with an American company, because her father had cut
Speaker 1: her off and she was in London with only a
Speaker 1: student visa. Instead, he took her to dinner at the Roundhouse,
Speaker 1: where the pretty young man from the Polaroid was on
Speaker 1: stage playing guitar. The a and our man was scouting
Speaker 1: David Bowie, as the guitarist called himself, and she could
Speaker 1: see why David had potential. His songs weren't bad, and
Speaker 1: he was very pretty. There was something odd about his eyes, though,
Speaker 1: that made you look at him longer than you looked
Speaker 1: at other pretty young men. It made you want to
Speaker 1: study him. She realized that she'd heard his voice before
Speaker 1: on the radio, at least every other day, a song
Speaker 1: called Space Odd about a nast not getting lost in space.
Speaker 1: It was a summer of Mansion sixte and the world
Speaker 1: was preparing to send men to the moon. The timing
Speaker 1: couldn't have been better. She saw him again at King
Speaker 1: Crimson's party at Speakeasy. David worked his way through the room,
Speaker 1: and Angie noticed something else. Everyone stood up to talk
Speaker 1: to him when he approached, rather than let him crouch down.
Speaker 1: They looked at him like he was important, Andie began
Speaker 1: to look at him that way too. He was born
Speaker 1: Davy Jones, he told her, But that was sadly taken.
Speaker 1: Angie laughed. She doubted that anyone could confuse with this
Speaker 1: man with the other Davy Jones, the imitation mopp hop
Speaker 1: and singer from the Monkeys, a man who probably had
Speaker 1: never had an impure or original thought in his life.
Speaker 1: That Davy was a mother and father's wet dream of
Speaker 1: the kind of man their daughter would bring home, the
Speaker 1: kind that would bring flowers and help with the dishes.
Speaker 1: After she could understand why he would change his name.
Speaker 1: By the end of the night, Angie knew that she
Speaker 1: was done fucking me a and Armor. She took David
Speaker 1: home instead. They were casual at first. They had sex
Speaker 1: and talked and fought. She tested him by throwing herself
Speaker 1: down the stairs at the hostel where she lived. He
Speaker 1: only stepped over her on his way out and told
Speaker 1: her to call him if she was still alive in
Speaker 1: the morning. Cold she thought was something like approval. Then
Speaker 1: one night he was sick and asked her to look
Speaker 1: after him. Sitting on his bed, he played her his tapes.
Speaker 1: It was the first time she'd really listened to his music,
Speaker 1: not just catching it in bits and pieces, but hearing
Speaker 1: it entire, and she realized he wasn't just writing the
Speaker 1: fastile pop love songs she was used to. David's lyrics
Speaker 1: were cryptic, apocalyptic, critical mystical. They were science fiction, and
Speaker 1: she believed in all sorts of things, including the efficiency
Speaker 1: of shagging your way to the top. But she believed
Speaker 1: in aliens light people. She called them radiant beings who
Speaker 1: either inhabited the most brilliant or the most inspired of humans. David,
Speaker 1: she decided, was one of them. It wasn't such a
Speaker 1: strange thing to believe in London in nineteen sixty nine,
Speaker 1: when men first walked on the moon and the odd
Speaker 1: eyed boy she was falling for was writing songs about
Speaker 1: astronauts and starman. He could be her meal ticket, he
Speaker 1: could be the love of her life. Angie was fine
Speaker 1: with either one. Things fell into place quickly after that,
Speaker 1: Andie found a flat for the two of them. It
Speaker 1: was in an old Victorian mansion called Hadden Hall, which
Speaker 1: they would share with a wide assortment of other colorful characters, artists,
Speaker 1: and musicians. Angie was his first listener when he was
Speaker 1: composing his interlocutor on the subjects that fascinated him mythology
Speaker 1: and theater, gender in mine when he met with record execs,
Speaker 1: and she was by his side, narrow eyed, playing the
Speaker 1: bad cop. When his father died. She put up with
Speaker 1: sleeping in a room with his mother for weeks while
Speaker 1: King moored in the cramped family home. At the end
Speaker 1: of that time, she offered him a deal. They'd stayed
Speaker 1: together as a couple and worked to make him a
Speaker 1: pop star, and it would be her turn. His fame
Speaker 1: would propel her to a career as an actress. He
Speaker 1: thought about it, Is it all right? Yeah, but I'm
Speaker 1: not in love with you. I can deal with that,
Speaker 1: She told him, I can deal with anything. It was
Speaker 1: true that she needed British citizenship, and so marrying a
Speaker 1: brit was useful, but that wasn't the only reason she
Speaker 1: accepted his proposal. And it was true that she was
Speaker 1: against marriage, at least the traditional kind, but this wouldn't
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Speaker 1: She especially liked it they'd still funk up at the
Speaker 1: It was better not to be tied down, to sleep
Speaker 1: with any man or woman he fancied without expectations, and
Speaker 1: still have someone to go home to at the end
Speaker 1: of the day. She wouldn't have expected David to be
Speaker 1: faithful anyway. Men never were, and she made a game
Speaker 1: of trying to sleep with anyone he had his eye
Speaker 1: on before he got to them or after, and she
Speaker 1: fell pregnant. She wasn't sure how she felt about becoming
Speaker 1: a mother, but luckily, when their son was born, who
Speaker 1: they called Zilly, David turned out to be a much
Speaker 1: better parent than she could ever dream of being, and
Speaker 1: she was happy to let him take the lead. David
Speaker 1: was still struggling to get the world to notice his music,
Speaker 1: and that was why he was going to wear a
Speaker 1: dress on the cover of his next album, The Man
Speaker 1: Who Sold the World, posing on a Victorian fainting couch
Speaker 1: at Hadden Hall. It turned heads, but it didn't sell,
Speaker 1: only cemented David's image as an enigmatic oddball. As far
Speaker 1: as Angie was concerned, though, that was a valuable bonus.
Speaker 1: They'd taken another creative step forward. Iggy or Ziggy, David
Speaker 1: asked her one afternoon after putting their son down for
Speaker 1: a n app What Angie asked, looking up from the
Speaker 1: magazine she was reading, David sat next to her. For
Speaker 1: my stage name, Iggy's taken, Angie said, aware of her
Speaker 1: husband's fascination with iggy pop, but her interest was piqued.
Speaker 1: As their sun slept, He began to tell her a
Speaker 1: story of an alien from Mars. It was golden. It
Speaker 1: was July nineteen seventy two. Angie was watching Makeup Artist's Prime,
Speaker 1: her husband for prime time television, not that he wasn't ready.
Speaker 1: His hair red, his face white. He wore a sparkly
Speaker 1: jumped suit. His bandmates looked apart too. They weren't David
Speaker 1: Bowie and his backing band. They were Ziggy Stardust and
Speaker 1: the Spiders from Mars. Once they were ready, they began
Speaker 1: to perform, and once they got to star Man, the
Speaker 1: single released three months earlier, something special happened. As he
Speaker 1: sung the line, he looked straight into the camera as
Speaker 1: if he was speaking directly to everyone watching at home. Oh,
Speaker 1: that was good. Angie couldn't even see what people at
Speaker 1: home we're seeing, and she knew that it was good.
Speaker 1: And of course she enjoyed seeing the costumes she'd helped
Speaker 1: sell on the other members of the band. Creating their
Speaker 1: extraterrestrial look had been Angie's task, while David had gotten
Speaker 1: to work writing. From the time that he had begun,
Speaker 1: Angie knew this album was going to be special. The
Speaker 1: songs were the best he'd yet written, and the concept
Speaker 1: of performing at all as an alien rock star was extraordinary.
Speaker 1: David Bowie was well on his way to becoming the
Speaker 1: hottest thing in music. Angie thought with satisfaction that he
Speaker 1: never would have thought of this on his own. Certainly
Speaker 1: he had been interested in gender and science fiction and
Speaker 1: the art of mine before she met him. But it
Speaker 1: had been her who had put it all together to
Speaker 1: make something new, something glamorous, larger than life. This was
Speaker 1: the stuff that rock stars were made of. In fact,
Speaker 1: it was their comment on rock start in itself. This
Speaker 1: was art. Early in the performance, he put his arm
Speaker 1: around his guitarist mcronson. It was a simple act, but
Speaker 1: a calculated one. A few months earlier, David had given
Speaker 1: an interview to the magazine Melody Maker and told the
Speaker 1: reporter he considered himself gay, said he always had been.
Speaker 1: It had been Angie's idea, what did gay mean anyway?
Speaker 1: Telling the papers he was gay was a way of
Speaker 1: sticking it to the squares, the straits, and at the
Speaker 1: same time telling out the old, closeted means who ran
Speaker 1: so much of the music industry and thought they knew
Speaker 1: what was best for David's career. In the declaration that
Speaker 1: Bowie was gay despite having a wife and child, just
Speaker 1: made him that much more intriguing to the fans. He
Speaker 1: quickly found himself accumulating they were young and old men, women,
Speaker 1: gay straight. The fluidity and mystery of David himself was
Speaker 1: a part of what made his music resonate in the
Speaker 1: way that it did. Anyone who had ever felt like
Speaker 1: an outcast in life could see a little bit of
Speaker 1: themselves and him, and the world always seemed to make
Speaker 1: a lot of outcasts. The year after the Ziggy star
Speaker 1: Dust album came a loud Insane on It was a
Speaker 1: song that David said he'd written about her. It wasn't
Speaker 1: exactly a traditional love song, but still it was called
Speaker 1: the Prettiest Star and the lyrics described how they would
Speaker 1: rise together. It was impossible not to be moved by it. Furthermore,
Speaker 1: it confirmed Angie's perception of herself as a driving creative force,
Speaker 1: but David to think bigger and bigger. But she was
Speaker 1: starting to realize the great risk she'd taken and turning
Speaker 1: her husband into the primary creative project. If they separated,
Speaker 1: he'd walk away with the whole endeavor. It was him,
Speaker 1: it was, she thought. Nearly time to move on to
Speaker 1: the second part of their agreement, making her a star
Speaker 1: as well. It was her turn. She tried, she modeled,
Speaker 1: she even tried acting. None of it got very far,
Speaker 1: Andie could help David reach his full potential. Maybe that
Speaker 1: had to be enough, but it meant being tied to
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Speaker 1: and showing signs of his own unique personality. They took
Speaker 1: him on a tour with them to Japan, where he
Speaker 1: rode with him on the bullet train to Hiroshima and
Speaker 1: napped while his father tried on the spectacular kabuki outfits
Speaker 1: made by a Japanese designer. It was nice to feel
Speaker 1: like a real family, Angie thought. In the next couple
Speaker 1: of years, David's fame continued to soar. There were tours
Speaker 1: of America, and it wasn't just the music. People were
Speaker 1: drawn too. It was the spectacle of getting to see
Speaker 1: him alive for the duration of the show. You really
Speaker 1: forgot that beneath all of the costumes and makeup and
Speaker 1: set dressing was just an ordinary group of men. You
Speaker 1: really felt like you were witnessing the musical talents of
Speaker 1: a raghead group of aliens in the Ziggy start Ust era.
Speaker 1: David always ended the show with the song five years,
Speaker 1: Ziggy's warning that the Earth only had five years left.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it was hard not to feel like that was
Speaker 1: so these days, Angie thought. You never know, You had
Speaker 1: to live every day like it was the last. By
Speaker 1: the mid nineties seventies, Angie Bowie wasn't sure of a
Speaker 1: lot of things. She wasn't sure where David stood. She
Speaker 1: wasn't sure where she it, whether their marriage had a
Speaker 1: shot of lasting. How much longer David could keep being
Speaker 1: z or his Ziggy goes to America persona a ladd
Speaker 1: insane and if not, what would he do and where
Speaker 1: would he take his career next. The more success he had,
Speaker 1: the more he was trapped being anything by himself. Not
Speaker 1: that much earlier, it seemed like nothing could bring them down.
Speaker 1: David and his band were on top of the world,
Speaker 1: and it was fucking with his head. The shifting personas
Speaker 1: buying for space with the real David, and the fine
Speaker 1: line between genuine success and an exaggerated projection of it.
Speaker 1: A lot of the phenomenon part of it had been
Speaker 1: cooked up by the publicity team Limousine's fancy hotels and
Speaker 1: pursuing photographers. Mobs of fans followed them wherever they went
Speaker 1: in the pantomime of something that could only be compared
Speaker 1: to Beatlemania. Not that there weren't fans there most definitely were,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't anything like the public wanted to think
Speaker 1: your place. The reasoning was that of Dave and Bowie
Speaker 1: was perceived to be a huge star. Others would wonder
Speaker 1: what kind of rock they had been living under. Did
Speaker 1: buy his records and buy tickets to his concerts to
Speaker 1: see what all the fuss was about, And while it
Speaker 1: had worked to a degree, David Star was bona fide,
Speaker 1: There was no question about that. There was also one
Speaker 1: reality that they had to contend with. Due to their
Speaker 1: lifestyle of excess, the expense of the grand theatrical shows,
Speaker 1: and general mismanagement, they were broke. It was one more
Speaker 1: reason for him to escape into drugs, music, another persona affairs,
Speaker 1: or some new obsession. David Jones, whomever he had been,
Speaker 1: it was more and more remote. As the seventies wayne
Speaker 1: to a close. The relationship that Angie had with David
Speaker 1: became less like a partnership and more like bad roommates
Speaker 1: who argued vigorously. If they acknowledged each other at all,
Speaker 1: and they were both seeing other people while they always had,
Speaker 1: they'd stopped fighting about it or carrying much at all
Speaker 1: about what the other was up to. They made their
Speaker 1: own plans, they'd quit trying to make it work. David
Speaker 1: was too strong out on different drugs most of the
Speaker 1: time to have an actual conversation about anything. When the
Speaker 1: time finally came to divorce, the primary question was what
Speaker 1: to do about their son, and it was obvious who
Speaker 1: the better parent would be. Their son was nine now,
Speaker 1: and he plainly preferred his father to his mother. Beyond that,
Speaker 1: and she told herself that maybe the responsibility of taking
Speaker 1: care of him would force David to get his act together.
Speaker 1: And when the divorce was finalized in nineteen eight, David
Speaker 1: got full custody, and you got half a million pounds
Speaker 1: and a non disclosure agreement. I'm going to live with you,
Speaker 1: Zoe asked his father as they discussed it all in
Speaker 1: the living room. David gave him a weak smile. This
Speaker 1: was the right choice. Andy was sure whatever shape David
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Speaker 1: The next decade seemed to drive quickly through her, and
Speaker 1: she tried to move on with her life, but that
Speaker 1: didn't exactly keep her away from interviews with anyone who
Speaker 1: wanted to ask her what it was like to be
Speaker 1: married to David Bowie. Once her gag order expired. She
Speaker 1: had also kept his name and though many accused her
Speaker 1: of trying to capitalize on her ex husband's fame, that
Speaker 1: wasn't it. She'd helped create David Bowie. She'd worked for
Speaker 1: her name. She kept it even after she met someone else,
Speaker 1: a musician who had similarly fashioned a more memorable stage name,
Speaker 1: Drew Blood from the much more boring in average Andrew
Speaker 1: lip Ka, and she did her best to start over
Speaker 1: with him, settling Intucsaw in Arizona. Even as she got older,
Speaker 1: after she had another child, a daughter named Stasha, she
Speaker 1: found herself thinking about the life she'd left behind. Throughout
Speaker 1: a series of reinventions, David Starr never really waned, with
Speaker 1: his music and image omni present, he was never far
Speaker 1: from her thoughts. She didn't regret things necessarily, but she
Speaker 1: still felt a void. Sometimes she thought of her son
Speaker 1: and hoped that whatever he and David were up to,
Speaker 1: they were well. Often she was asked why she didn't
Speaker 1: fight harder to hold on to any sort of custody
Speaker 1: of Zoe. And while she understood where this question came from,
Speaker 1: she was never going to be one of those women
Speaker 1: who used her child to get back at her ex.
Speaker 1: Even if she and David hadn't worked as a couple.
Speaker 1: That didn't mean she had to drag Zoe into it.
Speaker 1: Doing that, she reasoned, would have left Zoe with scars
Speaker 1: for life. She read that David got married again, and
Speaker 1: this time it seemed like true love. In the newspaper,
Speaker 1: she saw a picture of David and his new wife,
Speaker 1: a famous motto next to their son, who wasn't a
Speaker 1: child anymore. Goodness, he was a man now twenty one
Speaker 1: years old, just about the age that David had been
Speaker 1: when he and Angie had first met all those years ago.
Speaker 1: Time really went so fast. Angie hadn't seen her son
Speaker 1: and close to ten years. Their brief thoughts of contact
Speaker 1: with each other were unproductive, and now he did not
Speaker 1: seem to want a relationship with her. That's just the
Speaker 1: way it is, Angie thought. No one's fault, not that
Speaker 1: it mattered anymore. After all, as old as Angie sometimes felt,
Speaker 1: she knew that she still had a lot of life
Speaker 1: left to live. David was awfu living his He had
Speaker 1: a new family and was still making music, still filling stadiums.
Speaker 1: As her ex husband moved definitively into rock and roll
Speaker 1: legend territory, Angie hardly felt like she had an identity
Speaker 1: of her own, and there was a part of her
Speaker 1: that still felt like the nineteen year old she'd been
Speaker 1: when she first met David, dreaming about her space and
Speaker 1: beings of light. Her relationship Withdrew faded away and she
Speaker 1: met someone else, deciding this time, maybe it would work
Speaker 1: better with someone outside the limelight. His name was Michael.
Speaker 1: He was an engineer, and that was perfect. She was
Speaker 1: forging a new career as a writer, too, parlaying a
Speaker 1: juicy memoir into more thoughtful studies on gender and sexuality.
Speaker 1: Maybe the future would turn out to be bright after all.
Speaker 1: It was the cold January day, and as Angie watched
Speaker 1: the snowfall outside, she had a good feeling about the
Speaker 1: year ahead. It had been a bumpy road lately. She
Speaker 1: hadn't seen David or her son, who now went by
Speaker 1: Duncan and was an acclaimed film director. In over thirty
Speaker 1: five years. She still thought of them occasionally, and if
Speaker 1: they were happy, she was happy for them. She still
Speaker 1: went by Angie Bowie and was still criticized as an
Speaker 1: opportunist for it, Andie saw what people wrote about her
Speaker 1: on the internet. She couldn't imagine these people, whomever they
Speaker 1: were saying. Some of these things they said to her
Speaker 1: face after all this time, though she was used to
Speaker 1: it and could easily shrug it off. These random internet
Speaker 1: trolls didn't really know her. They thought they understood the
Speaker 1: relationship that she and David had because they liked his music,
Speaker 1: they identified within, but there was a lot more to
Speaker 1: it than they would ever know. She kept the name
Speaker 1: because it was her name, as simple as that. She'd
Speaker 1: fell in love again too, and like go of David
Speaker 1: a long time ago, It's not like she had time
Speaker 1: to be living in the past anyway. She'd recently been
Speaker 1: selected as a contestant on the TV show Celebrity Big Brother,
Speaker 1: where a group of public personalities lived in a house together.
Speaker 1: Each week one would be a victim, and she had
Speaker 1: done it because she thought it might be interesting, and
Speaker 1: so far it was nothing like she'd ever been a
Speaker 1: part of in her life. And sure she didn't mind
Speaker 1: being back in the public eye, that was part of it.
Speaker 1: Just as she watched the snow, she heard a knock
Speaker 1: at the door, Angie. She heard the producer's voice, do
Speaker 1: you have a moment? Angie walked to her door and
Speaker 1: opened it. Of course, they moved into the hall into
Speaker 1: a very quiet spot, maybe one of the only places
Speaker 1: in the house where there were no cameras, where no
Speaker 1: one else would hear them. David Bowie passed away today.
Speaker 1: The producer said, if you need to leave the house,
Speaker 1: we understand. Angie's head was spinning. No, I think I'll stay,
Speaker 1: she replied. After a moment that seemed like an eternity.
Speaker 1: The producer gave her a pitying look. We thought you
Speaker 1: ought to know, he said, let us know if you
Speaker 1: need anything. He walked off, leaving Angie alone in the hallway.
Speaker 1: David Bowie dead. Once in generation or so, people came
Speaker 1: around that were so larger than life that you forgot
Speaker 1: that they could die, that we all would die. Even
Speaker 1: though they hadn't spoken in over thirty five years, Angie
Speaker 1: had always taken comfort in knowing that he was out
Speaker 1: there somewhere. Suddenly, all of their fights didn't matter anymore.
Speaker 1: They had had a lot of wonderful memories together. They'd
Speaker 1: made a child. A week later, she left the Big
Speaker 1: Brother House. She just couldn't do it anymore, she told
Speaker 1: everyone else. The competition, which had seemed so exciting just
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Speaker 1: her ex husband's face was all that was on the
Speaker 1: news on Facebook. His music was all she heard on
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Speaker 1: found herself listening to it too. Lying in bed, she
Speaker 1: couldn't sleep. She searched for one specific song on her
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