Superstar Couples

I just like rumours, dont you?
Oh well, when you are sick and ailing you would just want to be entertained…
The world of rock ‘n’ roll has always been a breeding ground for a circus-like yet fairytale life. Most of the rockers don’t have any differece with their brothers and sisters in Hollywood.
Yesterday, Rolling Stone just unveiled their 25 Best Rock Rumours of all time. One of them is that Angela Bowie caught her former husband David on bed with Mick Jagger. I remember when this controversy came out fuelling heaps upon heaps of articles, ready speculations, on the much talked about sexual orientation of David Bowie.
So exactly when did it start?
According to Snopes, the story could be an “urband legend sort-of”.

This was the fare cooked up on “The Joan Rivers Show” on 4 May 1990, when Angela Bowie took advantage of the recent TVC 15 expiration of a ten-year gag order — which had been imposed as a condition of the divorce agreement that ended her 1970-80 marriage to rock star David Bowie — to spill some dirt on her famous ex-husband.
In a nutshell, what happened was that Rivers promised her audience that her guest was “ready to dish — and I mean down and dirty dishing — about her ex.” Angela Bowie reportedly got cold feet and maintained that she didn’t like “kissing and telling,” whereupon she was “led off camera and subjected to some scornful denunciation of her cowardice from Rivers and another guest, shock-humor radio personality Howard Stern.”
After rethinking her position, Angela returned to the set and discussed her stormy marriage to rock’s “Thin White Duke,” claiming: “I caught him in bed with men several times. In fact the best time I caught him in bed was with Mick Jagger” (when she walked into her bedroom after returning from a trip). When Howard Stern prodded her by asking if the two men had their clothes off, she answered, “They certainly did.”

Mick Jagger completely declared that it was “rubbish.” David, in turn, didn’t quite understand the fuss was all about. When asked by a fan if Mick was a good kisser, he said “You’d have to ask someone else, not me.” He also mentioned that proclaiming his bisexuality isn’t a problem in Europe but in America. “Interesting. [Long pause] I don’t think it was a mistake in Europe, but it was a lot tougher in America. I had no problem with people knowing I was bisexual. But I had no inclination to hold any banners or be a representative of any group of people. I knew what I wanted to be, which was a songwriter and a performer, and I felt that [bisexuality] became my headline over here for so long. America is a very puritanical place, and I think it stood in the way of so much I wanted to do.”
Angela, meanwhile, is bisexual. She is a staunch supporter of bisexuality wherein she writes numerous articles about the subject and represents the sector.
In fact, this rumour made another appearance when the film “Velvet Goldmine” came out in 1998. David disliked the script that he didn’t let director Todd Haynes to use his songs. The film is loosely based on his persona in the 70s, the start of glam, before, during and after he was Ziggy Stardust. In the script, the character portrayed by Toni Collette, Mandy Slade, was patterned after Angela.
The rumour was reconstructed in one of the scenes when Mandy caught her husband Brian Slade (played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers) sleeping naked beside Curt Wild (Ewan McGregor), a promiscuous drug-addled musician with shades of Mick Jagger, Marc Bolan and Iggy Pop in his soul.
The former Mrs. Bowie and David were considered to be rock royals in their heyday until their amicable split in 1980. Aside from her colourful past, she has a website giving advice about bisexuality.
David, who is known for metamorphosing and innovating his music style, is now still married with Iman Abdulmajid, a supermodel, successful businesswoman and very much involved with charity work. Though working in the background, the couple is considered to be one of the upper echelons of the celebrity power couples.

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