Thank you for sharing! I was just thinking yesterday that I hadn’t listened to Bowie in a while, and how the more I read about musicians especially in the 70s makes me less interested in their music. I cannot listen to James Brown anymore after learning about his abuse.

Interesting read. It’s always hard to read about musicians and artists we all love and see them in a bad light. Same goes for athletes or anyone in the spotlight. It’s always good to hear about celebrities that are actually good people and nice, but let’s face it, in order to become big you have to have somewhat of an egotistical personality and sometimes that means stepping on other people in the process. I don’t condone it, in fact I wish that every person who contributes to a successful venture be recognized and compensated justly. But chances are if a singular person is famous, inevitably you will find people in their wake that were either left out or hurt in the process.

I consider Aladdin Sane to be a high point of western civilization, but he was really horrible in some ways during that period.

Woodmansey’s autobiography is a very interesting glimpse behind the scenes.