Bowie: A Biography - JFK247

ecorded a spoken-word album with King Crimson’s
Robert Fripp (who would later add his distinctive
circular guitar sound to Bowie’s “Heroes”) and even
published a cosmic paperback full of collages,
poetry, personal confessions and observations
entitled Rock Raps of the Seventies. When she was
practicing witchcraft, according to Rock Raps, she’d
wear a “floor length clingy high necked long sleeved
black jersey, and a floor length chiffon over dress
that floats around me like a mysterious mist of
motion,” adding, “Usually I am in pants … always
black and silver.”
“She was known as The White Witch of New
York,” says Timothy Green Beckley, a paranormal
book publisher and friend of Elmlark’s. “She had a
large clientele which came to her for advice on
various subjects in their own personal life. She was
into personal power. Candle burning. Whenever she
did a spell for somebody she always made sure they
protected themselves by surrounding themselves
with a white aura of protection. She didn’t dabble in
Satanism or black magic or gris-gris. She was very
positive and always worked with the light and with
positive vibrations and always sent people in a good
direction. A lot of musicians turned to her for spiritual
guidance.”
Elmlark had met Bowie once before at a New
York City press conference during the first Ziggy
Stardust tour. Summoned to Bowie’s residence, she
quickly and apparently successfully exorcised the
pool. Angie, who was living there at the time, noted