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wouldn’t acknowledge the problem which eventually
left her hospitalised, and insisted on joining the tour.
The illness manifests itself in varying guises; in her
case, she’d act as if aggressive or drunk, causing so
much racket in Tokyo that the hotel called the police.
David, not unreasonably, got upset if he saw Sue
while on stage. It made House feel like an outcast.
Worse, Bowie didn’t address the issue directly so
House couldn’t even explain Sue’s illness first-hand.
In those situations, as with most issues, it was
Carlos Alomar who brought an almost spiritual,
soothing attitude. ‘Carlos is a psychologist, a
spiritualist, one of the most charming people in the
world,’ says House. ‘We got on really well; I wouldn’t
have enjoyed the tour without him. He was the one
would distract from the problems.’
On the Station to Station tour, there was always
the sense that David was head of a family; this time
around, it seemed that he was head of a business
empire. Coco and Pat Gibbons formed the nucleus
of Isolar, David’s management company, which
changed in form over the next few years, but would
always have David at its apex. In those early days,
the fact that David effectively managed himself
marked him out as a maverick; but that would
change. The beginnings of the realisation that he
was a businessman, as well as an artist, came with
the announcement that he would release a live
album, recorded primarily in Philadelphia, while the
tour was still rolling across Japan. The double album
was intended both to scupper the efforts of
bootleggers and count towards David’s RCA