Bowie: A Biography - JFK247

flashes me back years and I’m right back in a
‘meeting’ arguing over who had kudos and who
didn’t … it was a nightmare! I had a diploma in
marketing and economics. I couldn’t do that bullshit.
I’d look at them and say, ‘Look, the movement is just
a marketing thing. Everyone who’s saying no to us,
they’re idiots. The [older generation] had a world
war. They killed all these people. We’ve got to
reclaim the world.’ And it was a big deal for me.
They shushed me a lot. I was written off as the
intellectual.”
If Angie’s accelerated approach to empowerment
clashed somewhat with the elliptical Arts Lab, her
approach to the handling of Bowie ran head-on into
Kenneth Pitt’s gentlemanly fifties-and-early-sixtiesbred
style. In July, Pitt had arranged several
appearances designed to promote the “Space
Oddity” single, including a “song festival” on the
Italian island of Malta. Pitt was likely happy to be
alone with David after the distance put between
them thanks to Bowie’s less manageable stints in
Feathers and at the Arts Lab. Despite the more
contemporary, rockier material he’d been working
on for the Space Oddity album sessions with
Visconti (who was back on board after declining to
produce the title track), Pitt suggested that David
sing “When I Live My Dream” from the two-year-old
Deram debut.
Angie flew home to visit her parents in Cyprus to
tell them all about her new boyfriend. David sent her
postcards from Italy while traveling with Pitt. Either