Still, I wonder whether being a sometime publicist of David’s, she might not have written the story based on his real recounting of the incident? What if the eyepatch was not a deliberate attempt to become a glam rock space pirate, but instead a divine accident caused by some sort of sexually transmitted pink eye? Funky funky indeed! ![]() Now I know how the people who read the Hitler Diaries must have felt. Goddam it! The journal entries were forgeries! Cherry Vanilla and Bowie knew back in the seventies that I would soon be born, and conspired to make me feel a fool. If Cherry loved or hated something or someone it was Ziggy/Bowie who loved/hated it. And of course, she just wrote about her own life, like what shows she was seeing, where she ate and all that. Whenever these stories got back to me, I would just confirm them and the events would become part of my real/unreal life… So when this teeny magazine out of the UK wanted me to write for them, I just passed the job on to Cherry. She had such a great sense of humor and imagination that I told her to make things up about what Ziggy/Bowie was doing and to publish it. I had seen her in the London performance of the Warhol play ‘Pork’ (written of course by someone else). This was a time when I had decided to give my public life over to an extraordinary woman called Cherry Vanilla an actress and performer whom I had hired to be my PR. But did I write them? Well, here’s the awful truth. Unfortunately, a bit later I was scoping out the site a bit more, and found this more recent diary entry from Bowie just a decade ago:īack in journal-land, I found the Bowie diaries on Little Wonderworld and, boy did they take me back. Angie looked very stunning, really sophisticated in a chic beige dress with a roll neck and a super swirly skirt. We stayed at the hotel where the award was being presented, and we all found it very attractive… But, unfortunately, I had a little trouble with my eye which had started watering quite a bit shortly after I arrived.īy the time of the actual presentation, I had to wear a patch over my eye – which, of course, didn’t distract from my natural good looks – and I wore green dungarees and a pair of high brown boots. It was all great fun really and, of course, I travelled overland with Angie and little Zowie. Well, I promised you last week that I would tell you about my recent trip to Amsterdam where I went to collect The Edison Award – a statuette presented to me as outstanding foreign performer. Proof of this is that George years after the famous fight would design the album covers “Hunky Dory” (1971) and “The rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” (1972).I was reading more of these amazing Mirabelle magazine diaries of Bowie’s from the early-mid Seventies, and found what I thought was an amazing bit of Bowie trivia about the whys and wherefores of his famous eyepatch: If you wonder about the relationship between the two friends, it remained intact until the day of David's death in January 2016. Both friends got into a fight and at some point George hit David's eye, damaging it forever and thus marking one of the most characteristic features of rock history. It was 1962 and the then known as David Jones was a 15 years old teenager in love with the same girl as his friend George Underwood. The fun fact is how David got this condition. At first glance, and probably what many people think, his eyes had different colors but after a better look we would realize that his pupils were just of different sizes, and that is a condition not so uncommon called “Anisocoria” (having different color eyes is called “Heterochromia”). But contrary to the popular belief, he was not born like that nor he ever had different color eyes. Man of different personalities and probably the most amazing artist ever, David Bowie's most unique traits were his eyes.
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