Bowie: A Biography - JFK247

and unpleasant international activities,” Fields says.
“There are only rumors and I don’t know firsthand,
and they could’ve been put out there by people who
just didn’t like him. I had no idea.”
Max’s Kansas City is now the Green Deli,
adjacent to the W hotel on Union Square. There’s
nothing about it that suggests the counterculture
vanguard or the crucial old New York art elite. It’s a
place for cold mashed potatoes, cheap sushi, coffee
and the papers. It’s hard to imagine just how excited
David Bowie must have felt being ushered inside by
genuine Warholians, how it must have seemed like
all of New York City was unfolding for him. It must
have felt a little like that party at Tom Ayres’s house
in the Hollywood Hills, only a million times more
inspirational, as this was not L.A. This was New York
in the fall, almost obliging him to unveil his next and
most lasting creation. Ziggy was ready.