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now his hair cascaded in waves over his shoulders.
Mendelssohn was disturbed to find his chivalrous
instincts aroused by this glamorous apparition; soon
he and his friend were struggling with David’s trunk –
so extraordinarily heavy they speculated he was
smuggling a piano. David sashayed along behind
them, murmuring ‘Oh dear!’ every now and then; the
perfect, helpless fluttery-lashed ingénue.
Mendelssohn had agreed to write a story on the
English singer for Rolling Stone, but was so
intimidated by this exotic creature that he could only
think of the most inarticulate, mumbled questions, all
of which David treated as if they were the most
profound example of the inquisitorial arts.
Later that evening, some of Mendelssohn’s verve
returned when the two arrived at the Holiday Inn and
found the hotel’s facilities had been augmented with
a girl, who’d been provided for Bowie by the future
‘Mayor of the Sunset Strip’, Rodney Bingenheimer.
Mercury’s radio promotions man on the West
Coast, Bingenheimer had been abandoned by his
mother in Hollywood as a teenager, but his
enthusiasm for rock ‘n’ roll and frank adoration of
celebrity soon helped him become sidekick to
Sonny and Cher, and later one of the leading
scenesters. Rodney was famous as, in friend and
rival Kim Fowley’s words, ‘purveyor of a posse of
pussy’ – a skill he proved by sending the girl ‘like a
welcoming present’, says Mendelssohn. As
Mendelssohn and Bowie reclined in the Holiday Inn
lounge, listening incredulously to a hilarious lounge
duo called The Brass Doubles – an organist and