Sometimes I fear that the whole world is queer…
Needless to say, there are never too many pages between mentions of David Bowie in Straight, as a quick scan through the index confirms, with one whole chapter, Starman, concerning itself pretty much entirely with David Bowie.
There’s far too much to quote in the news, but here follows the first mention of our man as early on as page 2!
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From the age of twelve to seventeen my main fantasy was to befriend David Bowie and hang out with him at Haddon Hall in Beckenham. I thought: ‘He’d really understand me. We’d have so much in common.’
How strange that panic was still in place twenty-odd years later when I sat with my hero in a New York restaurant. I faked cool but every corpuscle in my body was screaming: ‘Ohmigod, it’s Ziggy Stardust!!’
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Here’s an excerpt from an interview in today’s Guardian, (The Guide) in which George names the most important artist of our time, and frankly, it’s no surprise to anybody…least of all us.
You turned down I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, even though they offered you £300,000.
I turned them all down, The Farm, Celebrity Big Brother. I’m a hideous snob. You wouldn’t have seen Ziggy Stardust on The Farm. Old Bowie stomping around the thoroughfare with his platforms – I don’t think so, and if it’s not good enough for Ziggy then they can fuck off. I’m not good in the morning. I don’t do casual. The idea of a jungle is hideous enough but especially stuck there with a load of twats I have absolutely no respect for. It was a bad move for Lydon, a good move for Jordan and Janet Street-Porter belongs there.
Who for you was the most important artist of our time?
David Bowie. He was just everything for me. He was and still is so important. He is a genius.
You can read the whole thing by clicking on George’s titfer.
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