família bowie

02Mar10

como zowie bowie, filho de david e angie, cresceu como uma pessoa normal? com pais adeptos do sexo, drogas e rock’n’roll em doses cavalares, o menino foi criado por uma babá, foi completando aniversários em meio a famosos como mick jagger e hoje é um respeitado diretor de cinema.

o daily mail conta a história: his parents were both bisexual ego-maniacs so how did zowie bowie turn out so normal?

The speech was as heartfelt as the man delivering it was unheralded. As he reached the Bafta podium last Sunday, where he was awarded the prize for best debut by a British writer, director or producer, Duncan Jones was overcome.

He gave an introductory ‘Um…er…wow’, and from that moment he was choking back tears.

‘Thank you so much,’ he said, in a voice cracking with emotion. ‘I didn’t actually realise how much this meant to me.’ He added, with tears in his eyes: ‘It’s taken me an awfully long time to know what I wanted to do with my life and finally I have found what I love doing.’

What many in the watching audience did not know was that this bearded, well-built 38-year-old man was the child formerly known as Zowie Bowie.

Yes, the son of David and Angie Bowie, born into an unimaginably dysfunctional family, with both parents addicted to drugs and practising a bizarre sexual free-for-all – Angie described their pairing as rather like a couple of bisexual alleycats.

Their marriage ended in suicide bids, recriminations and a financial pay off.

When he was just a little tot, the boy who was born Duncan Zowie Hayward Jones (Jones is David Bowie‘s real surname) came on a particularly raucous tour to Japan with his mum and dad – there are pictures of an angelic blond boy sandwiched between his two parents, both with razor cheekbones and rooster hair.

For years, when his father was hopelessly addicted to cocaine, and then alcohol, he was raised by a nanny.

The nanny, Marion Skene, was both his mother and father figure. Angie left the family when he was four and David wasn’t capable of taking more than an occasional role.

For years, when his father was hopelessly addicted to cocaine, and then alcohol, he was raised by a nanny.

The nanny, Marion Skene, was both his mother and father figure. Angie left the family when he was four and David wasn’t capable of taking more than an occasional role.

For the first six or seven years of his life I was around so infrequently I can’t imagine what an abyss that has caused,’ David has admitted.
Home was a rock star mansion in Switzerland and they would holiday on Mustique with Mick Jagger.

David, who lives in New York with his second wife Iman, is proud of his son. He was the first person Duncan called when he stepped off the stage – and I’m told you could hear David’s hollers of delight when he heard the news.

So how did Duncan Jones mature from his confused years to become the Bafta award-winning director and writer he is today?

Today Duncan shares a flat with some male friends in Chelsea and has a girlfriend – whom he refuses to name publicly, such is his experience of the limelight.

This week he is in Canada preparing to make a major £30million picture starring the Oscar-nominated Jake Gyllenhaal.

His friend and mentor Trevor Beattie – the advertising guru – tells me: ‘Duncan is the most talked about director in Hollywood.’

The story begins in 1969 when David Bowie met the wild-child daughter of a U.S. army colonel, Mary Angela Barnett, known as Angie.

David drawled in an interview: ‘We were both f*****g the same bloke.’

She was an art student who wanted to act, with a talent for outrage and a taste for casual sex.

‘I was wild and David needed me to help him be wild,’ she said. ‘I chopped his hair off and dyed it and put him in a dress. I gave him notoriety. He gave me fame.’

It seems to have been an entirely pragmatic pairing – Angie needed a visa to remain in the UK. And it was certainly an open marriage.

They had a threesome with an actress on the eve of their wedding in 1970 and David once asked Angie: ‘Can you deal with the fact that I’m not in love with you?’

Angie clearly could. She once declared: ‘Free love was natural and simply what one did.’

a dica é de fabiana moraes, via facebook

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