Bowie: A Biography - JFK247

Playboy interview in ’76. “It didn’t really matter who
or what it was with, as long as it was a sexual
experience. So it was some very pretty boy in class
in some school or other that I took home and neatly
fucked on my bed upstairs. And that was it.”
Both boys and girls were attracted to him because
of his newly enhanced charisma and experience,
and he did not differentiate between those who
wished to pay a little physical tribute to it. Given the
outrageousness of the Crowe interview it remains
unclear just how extensively David explored his
sexuality at the time. Surely the Beats, who he
admired and took cues from, were frank about such
experimentations, but both his best friend George
Underwood and future wife Angie maintain that
David’s motivation was “pussy,” or “the p word,” as
they described it respectively. If his claim to Crowe
is true, fastidious Peggy could not have possibly
approved of any same-sex screwing under her own
roof; perhaps she would have taken solace in the
fact that he did it “neatly.”
David’s sexual fervor could, on occasion, get him
into trouble. “We did have a falling-out over one girl,”
Underwood recalls. “Carol Goldsmith.” This event,
which took place in the spring of 1961, has become
a legendary part of the Bowie creation myth, and its
result has been attributed to a Brixton street fight and
even named as evidence of his extraterrestrial
origins, as surely nobody born on planet Earth has
mismatched eyes like that. The reality is that he
cock-blocked his best friend and schoolmate and