Bowie: A Biography - JFK247

over the salon, typically as hostess and muse,
feeding and advising her mates. “Angie was real
cool,” says Dana Gillespie, who attended many
meals at the Haddon Hall salon during this period.
“You could literally give her a potato, an onion and a
carrot and she’d feed four musicians and three
friends. I used to go down there and hang out with
them. Angie was always supportive of David. She
always listened to his songs as they came off the
production line and she’d always say, ‘That’s
fabulous.’”
Angie says, “I would do my best plotting during
what other people would think was my downtime—
when I was washing dishes or ironing shirts.
Because there’s something about menial tasks that
makes one very creative. And in those times, I would
have all kinds of brilliant ideas and more schemes
and more plots …”
When she wasn’t cooking and critiquing, Angie
was costuming. “Determined to make David’s band
the smartest in the land, I would preach to the boys
about their day-to-day appearances,” she recalled.
“It’s just as essential to look handsome off stage as it
is on.”
“It was theater that I was interested in,” she tells
me. “I wanted the band to be big, huge and musical. I
wanted it to look as great as theater looked. Be as
brilliantly lit as theater. It was to be an experience. I’d
spent seven years going to classical concerts every
week at school. Just the venues were magnificent.
They raised your spirits, and raised your heart. So