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Newcastle’s Club A-Gogo; David would never pay
his dues in such a yeoman’s fashion. For a start,
although he, rather than George, had taken on the
role of lead singer, he was still reticent as a front
man. When Dorothy Bass was roped in to drive The
Pretty Things to their shows in south-east London,
David would often come up and chat to singer Phil
May and the band’s founder, Dick Taylor, who says,
‘We did like him. Skinny little blond fella. Though I
don’t think I ever saw him sing.’
As a singer, skinny and likeable was about it. ‘He
was very self-contained,’ says Bass, who saw most
of The King Bees’ shows. ‘I didn’t think he reached
out to the audience very much, maybe he was
concentrating on what he was singing. He didn’t
actually seem sexy to me. George was gorgeous … I
wouldn’t say I dismissed David, he was blond, he
was OK, but I didn’t see him as a sex symbol. There
was no interacting or giving anything to the
audience. Not that that bothered us. They were
people on stage, our age, and that’s all that
mattered.’
On stage, David hadn’t mastered the swagger of
contemporaries like Mick Jagger or Phil May. Off
stage, though, he was a natural, a hustler. Aided by
his father, who’d now worked in PR for nearly a
decade, he also had an innate understanding of the
fact that a hustler loves another hustler. For this
reason, the letter that helped him score his debut
single became better-known than the single itself.
History would have it that David Bowie grew up