Bowie: A Biography - JFK247

that seemed authentic and no longer borrowed or
imitated. Falling in love and screwing it up gave him
some gravitas. His darker forays would never again
seem so juvenile.
“Where she was from and what she had done was
a bit of a mystery,” Hutchinson says. “I knew
Hermione was not her real name. But reinventing
yourself like that was not common in those days. I
think she was maybe the daughter of somebody very
famous and didn’t want it known that his daughter
was a hippie. All I knew was that was it. She spoke
very well. She was obviously well educated. And
she’d been a dancer. So she knew all about show
business but not rock ’n’ roll business. I don’t think
she would have joined a rock ’n’ roll band. For a
while, I think she was okay with the scene. She just
leant what she could lend to what David was into.”
David’s rock ’n’ roll lifestyle would ultimately be the
undoing of his relationship with Hermione. He didn’t
know any other way to live and pursued affairs and
kept hours that she eventually could no longer abide,
and soon there was tension in hippie heaven. “I was
totally unfaithful and couldn’t for the life of me keep it
zipped,” he confessed to Mojo in 2002. “I’m sure we
would have lasted a good long time if I’d been a
good boy.”
“Hermione was in and out of David’s life so fast
that it is not surprising that biographers have little to
write about. Also, unlike most ex-wives and -
girlfriends of celebrities, she was well bred and had
the intelligence to drift away into the obscurity of her