Bowie: A Biography - JFK247

elished having his own space to leave in funky
disarray. Angie was not, however, going to abide it.
“Suddenly it was all washed up tidy,” Finnegan
says. “David and I were always in and out of each
other’s room in a perfectly normal, natural way. We’d
had a relationship. So I went into his room and there
I found a half-written song lying by his bedside. The
lyrics were talking about ‘beautiful Angie.’ So the
penny dropped. The next thing I knew he’d moved
her in. Sensing I was miffed, Angie of course
launched a formidable charm offensive. She was a
very highly strung young woman. Openly bisexual,
incredibly creative and formidably energetic and very
beautiful. I think he was in love with her.”
Despite the powerful sexual attraction and what
must have been a hint of narcissism (they were
similarly built physically, had similar hair and skin
color), Angela and David really bonded over a
shared sense of ambition and drive. “He studied
mime,” she says, impressed still, some four
decades on. “To be with Hermione he learned ballet.
I thought if he was that well versed and Ken Pitt had
been making sure, as far as acting was concerned,
he could do whatever we needed him to do, it made
him different and my job was to market him. You start
with what you’ve got and you work on that. He had
this ability to pick up a skill. He was extremely
talented. Please do not believe any of the bullshit
about him. He’s very brilliant. He’s a multiinstrumentalist.
And the focus that it takes to learn
those things, I’m sure it was one of the reasons we