Angela Bowie Interview.Teil 1/3, 2/3, 3/3. In: 5years.com, 2000. Originaltext: „I live in Tucson, Arizona in the American South West.“
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Melissa Ruggieri: David Bowie's ex-wife, Angie, still maintains Georgia ties. In: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution vom 12. Januar 2016. Originaltext: „In the ’80s, Angie [Bowie] (nee Mary Angela Barnett) moved to Atlanta, where she was described by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in a 1990 story as a ‚low-profile performance artist‘.“
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Trannyshack: David Bowie Tribute. In: Trannyshack vom 18. März 2011. Originaltext: „ Angie was the "It Girl" in London's 'In'-crowd and cultivated all that was weird and left-field.“ Adem Sandel: Angie Bowie Rocks On. In: Bay Area Reporter vom 14. März 2011. Originaltext: „She was the counter-culture "It-Girl" of the glam rock '70s.“
Randy Patterson: Angela Bowie – Backstage, Lipstick, & All. In: boomerocity.com vom November 2019. Originaltext: „Acworth was convenient. […] We stayed at that house for two years.“
Randy Patterson: Angela Bowie – Backstage, Lipstick, & All. In: boomerocity.com vom November 2019. Originaltext: „We had the most wonderful time in [Knoxville] Tennessee. Michael (Angela’s current husband) and I – we lived there for a year. And just outside of – we lived in a fabulous place, Tellico Village, which was 30 miles from the job site. The job site was in Alcoa. […] We had an absolutely magical year there.“
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Bowie Golden Years 1970. In: bowiegoldenyears.com Originaltext: „Angela was no stranger to controversy and as their relationship began, she schooled Bowie in the art of attracting attention.“
Bowie Golden Years 1970. In: bowiegoldenyears.com Originaltext: „Bowie and Angela had suggested to the band that some sort of stage wear was needed to spice up the act. Angela browsed the Charing Cross Road shops with neighbour and friend Mark Pritchett, devising costumes for the band based on different characters.“
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Paul Trynka: Starman: David Bowie – The Definitive Biography. Hachette UK, London 2011, ISBN 978-0-74812-991-1, S. 243. Originaltext: „Defries initially encouraged [Schwab’s] rise, in order to diminish Angie’s influence. By the autumn of 1973, Coco had become David’s personal assistant […] [and] controlled access to David.“ Lynn Van Matre: Bitter but ho-hum memories of a life with a rock legend. In: Chicago Tribune vom 25. Januar 1993. Originaltext: „David increasingly withdrew from her as his career soared, eventually barricading himself behind sycophantic assistants and sinking deeper into a delusional paranoia fueled by cocaine, alcohol and other drugs. Eventually, he found it expedient to abandon her.“
Lynn Van Matre: Bitter but ho-hum memories of a life with a rock legend. In: Chicago Tribune vom 25. Januar 1993. Originaltext: „Thanks to Switzerland's divorce laws, Angela was awarded a paltry $750,000, payable over 10 years, when the couple’s split became final in 1980 after a decade spent building his career. For various reasons, Angela didn't fight for custody of the couple's only child, Zowie. […] A gag clause in the divorce agreement barred her from writing anything about her ex-spouse while she was receiving annual payments.“
Auch Lou Reed schätzte Angela Bowies Rat in Kleidungsfragen. Den schwarzen Samtanzug, den er auf dem Cover seines Albums Transformer von 1972 trägt, hatte Angela Bowie ausgewählt. Quelle: Madeline Bocaro: Angela Bowie. The Prettiest Star. In: madelinex.com vom 1. August 2018. Originaltext: „Lou Reed credits Angie for creating his Transformer album cover look. […] It was Angie who selected his black velvet Spanish style diamante sequined suit.“ Lou Reed „Transformer“ presented by Colleen ‚Cosmo‘ Murphy. In: classicalbumsundays.com
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Angela Bowie berichtete 2015, dass sie mit dem Verzicht auf das Sorgerecht für ihren Sohn versucht habe, ihrem Ehemann zu helfen, von seiner Kokainabhängigkeit loszukommen. „Ich wusste, dass ich David retten musste – und indem ich ihm unseren Sohn [Zowie] schenkte, hatte er [David] einen Grund zu leben.“ 2016 fügte sie hinzu: „Ich wollte das Sorgerecht [für meinen Sohn] nicht ablehnen, aber ich hätte ihn nie seinem Vater wegnehmen können, weil sich beide so ungemein nahe standen.“ Zur Zeit der Scheidung geriet sie damit in die Schusslinie der Presse, die sich an ihr und der Thematik abarbeitete. Quelle: Rebecca Davison: I knew I had to save David: Angie Bowie reveals the reason she is estranged from their son Duncan Jones. In: Daily Mail vom 18. Januar 2016. Originaltext: „She said: ‚I knew I had to save David – and by giving him our son, he had a reason to live.‘ […] ‚I didn't not want custody‘, she said. ‚It was just I was never going to take him away from his father because they were tight as can be, it was just one of those things.‘ The 66-year-old claimed that after she split from David, she was desperate to help him stay clean after a well-publicised addiction to cocaine.“ Quelle: Martin Popoff: Bowie at 75. Quarto Publishing Group USA, London 2022, ISBN 978-0-76037-438-2, S. 27. Originaltext: „Angela found herself on the outs with the press when is was revealed that when the couple split, she had ceded custody of Zowie […] to David, as she said in the hope that the responsibility might jar Bowie out of his drug dependency.“
Freddie Burretti bei Discogs Originaltext: „Freddie designed clothes for Bowie on his Ziggy Stardust period, band on stage costumes right through the Diamond Dogs and through the Plastic Soul period [→ Young Americans].“
Trannyshack: David Bowie Tribute. In: Trannyshack vom 18. März 2011. Originaltext: „ Angie was the "It Girl" in London's 'In'-crowd and cultivated all that was weird and left-field.“ Adem Sandel: Angie Bowie Rocks On. In: Bay Area Reporter vom 14. März 2011. Originaltext: „She was the counter-culture "It-Girl" of the glam rock '70s.“
Mick McStarkey: Who inspired The Rolling Stones song ‚Angie‘? In: Far Out Magazine vom 20. August 2021. Originalzitat: „In 2002, Mick Jagger restated: ‚I’ve said about a hundred million times that it wasn’t (about Angela Bowie)… I don’t think I had even met Angela Bowie when I wrote the rest of the lyrics.‘“
Nach David Bowie trafen Barnett und er an diesem Abend mit Lee zusammen, da beide mit ihm intime Beziehungen unterhielten. Sein Wortlaut war: „…because we were both f*cking the same bloke.“ Quelle: Pat Gilbert: David Bowie. The Illustrated Story. Voyageur Press, London 2017, ISBN 978-0-76035-266-3, S. 40.
Angela Barnett flog über die Weihnachtsfeiertage nach Zypern, um ihre Eltern zu besuchen. David schickte ihr eine Karte mit dem Wortlaut: „Bitte komm zurück. Wir werden nächstes Jahr heiraten, ich verspreche es Dir.“ Die Zustellung der Karte verzögerte sich wegen eines Poststreiks und da er so keine Antwort erhalten konnte, rief David Bowie sie an und spielte ihr über das Telefon seinen Entwurf eines neuen Liedes vor, das er für sie komponiert hatte, mit dem Titel The Prettiest Star. Das Lied wurde zunächst 1970 als Single und dann 1973 auf dem Album Aladdin Sane veröffentlicht. Die Leadgitarre in dem Titel spielte Marc Bolan von T. Rex. Quelle: Michael Heatley, Frank Hopkinson: The Girl in the Song: The Real Stories Behind 50 Rock Classics. Portico, London 2014, ISBN 978-1-90939-688-3, S. 148. Originaltext: „Angela flew to Cyprus to visit her parents through the festive season. David sent a card containing a scribbled not: Please come back. We will marry, I promise, later next year. The card was delayed by a postal strike and, anxious at not having received a response, he called her and, ‚into the telephone he played the acetate of a new song he had composed for me. It was called The Prettiest Star.‘“
George Alan O’Dowd, später bekannt als Boy George, hing als Elfjähriger oft mit anderen Bowie-Fans vor Haddon Hall ab. Eines Tages öffnete sich ein Fenster, Angela Bowie blickte ihn an und fragte ihn: „Warum verpisst du dich nicht?“. Darauf schloss sie das Fenster wieder. George war begeistert, endlich hatten die Bowies seine Existenz wahrgenommen. „Wir verehrten Angie genauso sehr wie David“, sagte George. Jahre später erzählte der Culture-Club-Sänger einem amüsierten David Bowie von seiner Episode, der darauf trocken erwiderte: „Das ist wahrscheinlich eine der besseren Aussagen Angies aus den 1970er Jahren.“ Quelle: Tom Hagler: We Could Be: Bowie and his Heroes. Hachette UK, London 2021, ISBN 978-1-78840-274-3, S. 61. Originaltext: „Eleven-year-old George O’Dowd had been waiting for this moment for much of his young life. As was his wont on a Sunday afternoon, he was hanging around outside Bowie’s residence in Beckenham with a small crowd of Bowiephiles, Nothing of note had ever happened, but one day a window opened and a face appeared. The face seemed to look directly at O’Dowd before shouting, ‚Why don’t you f*ck off?‘ It then disappeared and the window was slammed shut. The face belonged to Angie Bowie. Far from being chastened, George was thrilled. This was the first acknowledgement of existence by the celebrity couple. ‚We adored Angie just as much as David‘, said George. […] Years later, the Culture Club singer was invited inside a Bowie household. After a conversation about EastEnders, George recounted his Haddon Hall episode to an amused Bowie, who said dryly ‚That’s probably Angie’s greatest line from the seventies.‘“
So auch am Vorabend ihrer Hochzeit in einem gemeinsamen Dreier mit einer ungenannt gebliebenen Person. Quelle: Ian Chapman: David Bowie FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About Rock’s Finest Actor. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020, ISBN 978-1-49305-140-3, S. 190. Originaltext: „[…] on the eve of their wedding day, when they had a threesome with an unnamed mutual friend.“ John Cambridge war Trauzeuge und benannte die Folksängerin und Künstlerin Clare Shenstone als weitere Trauzeugin und die Person, welche die Nacht vorher mit den Bowies verbracht hatte. Quelle: John Cambridge: Bowie, Cambo & All the Hype. McNidder & Grace, Carmarthen 2021, ISBN 978-0-85716-217-5, S. 112. Originaltext: „Clare […] spent the night before the wedding with Angie and David in Haddon Hall.“
Der langjährige Weggefährte Tony Visconti meinte später: „Angie und Defries werden von Davids Kritikern und Kumpanen gleichermaßen gescholten, aber ohne ihre ständige Unterstützung und ohne ihren Beitrag hätte es nie einen Ziggy, einen Aladdin [Sane] oder überhaupt einen zukünftigen Bowie gegeben.“ Quelle: Nicholas Pegg: The Complete David Bowie: New Edition: Expanded and Updated. Titan Books, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-78565-533-3, S. 165. Originalzitat: „As Tony Visconti later suggested, ‚Angie and Defries are often maligned by critics and cronies of David, but without their constant support and input, there would never have been a Ziggy, an Aladdin [Sane], or a future Bowie for that matter.‘“
Michael Fish war ein eigenwilliger Modedesigner, der sich 1966 selbständig machte, nachdem er für andere Bekleidungshersteller gearbeitet hatte. Er erfand 1967 das Männerkleid, das Mick Jagger 1969 bei einem kostenlosen Konzert der Rolling Stones im Londoner Hyde Park trug. Quelle: Paul Gorman: The Look: Adventures in Pop and Rock Fashion. Sanctuary, London 2001, ISBN 978-1-86074-302-3, S. 54. Die US-amerikanische Veröffentlichung der Schallplatte The Man Who Sold the World hatte ein anderes, weniger provokantes Cover mit Cartoon-artiger Illustration. Quelle:
Philip Auslander: Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbour 2006, ISBN 978-0-47206-868-5, S. 121.
Angela Bowie berichtete 2015, dass sie mit dem Verzicht auf das Sorgerecht für ihren Sohn versucht habe, ihrem Ehemann zu helfen, von seiner Kokainabhängigkeit loszukommen. „Ich wusste, dass ich David retten musste – und indem ich ihm unseren Sohn [Zowie] schenkte, hatte er [David] einen Grund zu leben.“ 2016 fügte sie hinzu: „Ich wollte das Sorgerecht [für meinen Sohn] nicht ablehnen, aber ich hätte ihn nie seinem Vater wegnehmen können, weil sich beide so ungemein nahe standen.“ Zur Zeit der Scheidung geriet sie damit in die Schusslinie der Presse, die sich an ihr und der Thematik abarbeitete. Quelle: Rebecca Davison: I knew I had to save David: Angie Bowie reveals the reason she is estranged from their son Duncan Jones. In: Daily Mail vom 18. Januar 2016. Originaltext: „She said: ‚I knew I had to save David – and by giving him our son, he had a reason to live.‘ […] ‚I didn't not want custody‘, she said. ‚It was just I was never going to take him away from his father because they were tight as can be, it was just one of those things.‘ The 66-year-old claimed that after she split from David, she was desperate to help him stay clean after a well-publicised addiction to cocaine.“ Quelle: Martin Popoff: Bowie at 75. Quarto Publishing Group USA, London 2022, ISBN 978-0-76037-438-2, S. 27. Originaltext: „Angela found herself on the outs with the press when is was revealed that when the couple split, she had ceded custody of Zowie […] to David, as she said in the hope that the responsibility might jar Bowie out of his drug dependency.“
Ian Chapman: David Bowie FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About Rock’s Finest Actor. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020, ISBN 978-1-49305-140-3, S. 190, 191. Originaltext: „The two met in 1969 and were instantly attracted to each other. […] Actively bisexual, Angie enjoyed the experimental nature of their open relationship as much as David did, and the two at times shared lovers […].“
Ian Chapman: David Bowie FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About Rock’s Finest Actor. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020, ISBN 978-1-49305-140-3, S. 190. Originaltext: „To Angie, he sang ‚One day, though it might as well be some day, you and I will rise up all the way. All because of what you are, the prettiest star‘. […] Angie encouraged David to be outrageous, to ignore those who would knock his art, and to actively court publicly. […] Certainly, for a time at least, [quite shy] David Bowie very much appreciated Angie's better qualities and in particular what she brought out in him through his association with her. In response, he immortalised her in the song The Prettiest Star. Released as a single in 1970 – with none other than friend and rival Marc Bolan of T Rex featuring on [lead] guitar.“
Lesley-Ann Jones: Hero: David Bowie. In: Hachette UK, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-4447-5884-9, S. 191. Originaltext: „It had become a place of both pilgrimage and peril, overrun with fans more aggressive that ourselves. […] A few even boke in when there was no one at home.“
Miles Charlesworth, Chris Charlesworth: David Bowie Black Book. Omnibus Press, London 2013, ISBN 978-1-78323-026-6, S. 23. Originaltext: „Angie’s visa was about to expire and, since she could remain in Britain as Mrs David Bowie, she and David got married.“ Peter Doggett: The Man Who Sold The World: David Bowie And The 1970s. Random House, Nre York 2011, ISBN 978-1-4090-4139-9, S. 75. Originaltext: „Two weeks after the release of The Prettiest Star, Bowie and Angie became husband and wife. ‚She’s an American citizen. and if I hadn’t married her, she’d have had to leave the country‘, Bowie explained a few months later.“
Lesley-Ann Jones: Hero: David Bowie. In: Hachette UK, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-44475-884-9, S. 192, 193. Originalzitat: „Angela Bowie: ‚David and I were away doing drugs, at first together and later apart.‘“
Lesley-Ann Jones: Hero: David Bowie. In: Hachette UK, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-44475-884-9, S. 191, 192. Originaltext: „Angie oversaw the packing pf tea chests, the wrapping of relics, the premier-league transfer – while toddler Zowie was holed up with a child minder, watching back-to-back movies in a hotel suite in Park Lane.“
Lesley-Ann Jones: Hero: David Bowie. In: Hachette UK, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-44475-884-9, S. 192, 193. Originaltext: „Marion Skene had been a secretary for RCA. […] Angela and David took her on as a nanny for Zowie. She was a lowly Scottish lady, who would take Zowie on little trips up to her parents house in Scotland , and who kept him on the straight and narrow. She was wonderful with him. ‚We were messed up as a couple‘, Angela said to writer Caroline Graham 2009, ‚but this little creature came and David was a great dad. But when the baby was around, our lifestyle just didn't work. David and I were away doing drugs, at first together and later apart. Marion effectively become Zowie’s mother.‘ Duncan Jones has agreed that he ‚always considered‘ Miss Skene to be his mother, not Angie.“
Madeline Bocaro: Angela Bowie. The Prettiest Star. In: madelinex.com vom 1. August 2018. Originaltext: „When the two were seen out in public in astounding complementary garb […].“ Martin Popoff: Bowie at 75. Quarto Publishing Group USA, London 2022, ISBN 978-0-76037-438-2, S. 26. Originaltext: „[…] with Angie obtaining the matching look.“
Lesley-Ann Jones: Hero: David Bowie. Hachette UK, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-44475-884-9, S. 193. Originaltext: „[…] Angie was almost as popular as David at the time. […] They were the power couple in the business. It was the yin and yang thing, she was his perfect foil. She was impressive, and lovely, and American – which was still so exotic by then. There were David-and-Angie-lookalike contests all the time. The media lapped them up. Fans copied her hairstyles and outfits as much as they copied his.“
David Buckley: Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story. Random House, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-44813-247-8, S. 78. Originaltext: „In the interregnum between Ken Pitt and Tony Defries (a period of almost 18 month […]), Angie was important in getting Bowie’s career moving. Although occasionally out of her depth, at least initially, she learned how to deal with the people that mattered in the music business, making calls and even writing up an agenda for the Haddon Hall habitués. “
Steve Pafford: Bowie Style. Omnibus Press, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-85712-364-0, S. 218. Originalzitat: „The arrival of Angie, and then Tony DeFries, both of whom were more attuned to the increasingly hard-nosed rock industry then his previous management.“
Martin Popoff: Bowie at 75. Quarto Publishing Group USA, London 2022, ISBN 978-0-76037-438-2, S. 27. Originaltext: „Angie framed herself more as a mediator between David and Tony Defries.“
Paul Morley: The Age of Bowie. Simon and Schuster, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-47114-810-1, S. 199. Originalzitat: „Angie as hitman, hustler and browbeater, stylist, geisha and number one fan, as well as wild, indulgent wife and zany mother […].“
Martin Popoff: Bowie at 75. Quarto Publishing Group USA, London 2022, ISBN 978-0-76037-438-2, S. 26. Originaltext: „For all her talk of feminism Angie had a traditional role for a rock wife – hair, makeup and clothes. […] Angie would also be instrumental in the Aladdin Sane and Thin White Duke visuals.“
Will Brooker: Forever Stardust: David Bowie Across the Universe. Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2017, ISBN 978-1-78673-153-1, S. 13. Originaltext: „The creation of Ziggy Stardust, Bowie’s breakthrough act, was by some accounts a team effort in which Angie Bowie and hairdresser Suzi Fussey, later Suzi Ronson, played a key role.“
Burretti, Freddi und Parma, Daniella. In: Giulio D’Agostino: Glam Musik: British Glam Music ’70 History. iUniverse, London 2001, ISBN 978-0-59516-563-6, S. 245, 270. Originaltext: [Zu Burnetti:] „In 1971 a 19 year old clothes designer/tailor and close fried to David Bowie […]. Burretti was responsible for most of the Ziggy Stardust costumes […].“ [Zu Parma:] „Girlfriend of Freddi Burretti who assisted him making costumes for the Ziggy Stardust concerts. This was to be virtually a full time job for them with Angie Bowie helping out.“
Martin Popoff: Bowie at 75. Quarto Publishing Group USA, London 2022, ISBN 978-0-76037-438-2, S. „Angie Bowie was the little devil on the shoulder of David Bowie.“
Christopher Andersen: Mick: The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger. Simon and Schuster, New York City 2012, ISBN 978-1-45166-144-6, S. 174. Originaltext: „Angie pressed David to take bisexual chic as far as it could go. Soon Bowie’s plastic disco boots, Day-Glo orange hair, Kabuki makeup and painted finger nails made his Ziggy Stardust alter ego the incostestable king of androgynouos rock.“
Paula Reed, Design Museum Enterprise: Fifty Fashion Looks that Changed the 1970s: Design Museum Enterprise. Hachette UK, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-84091-616-4, S. 52. Originaltext: „Suzy Fussey was Angela's hairdresser. It was she who gave her the towering quiff in red white and blue. Angie was so pleased with the results that she asked Fussey to work on Davids hair. Between the three of them, they fashioned the iconic Ziggy-look. […] The scarlet rooster look, with razored back and blow-dried front was born. The Ziggy-haircut epitomised the androgyny of glam rock and was copied by both boys und girls.“ Dylan Jones: When Ziggy Played Guitar: David Bowie, The Man Who Changed The World. Random House, New York 2017, ISBN 978-1-40905-213-5, S. 53.
Pat Gilbert: David Bowie. The Illustrated Story. Voyageur Press, London 2017, ISBN 978-0-76035-266-3, S. 87. Originaltext: „Though Bowie and Angie tolerated each other's dalliances, [in 1973] Bowies friendships with Ava Cherry und Cyrinda Foxe, and his wife’s relationship with The Stooges’s Scott Richardson were beginning to undermine their marriage. Four weeks later, when the trip ended with two shows in Los Angeles and Bowie spent the night with a pair of notorious groupies, their „open“ relationship was severely tested.“
David Hepworth: Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994. Random House, London 2017, ISBN 978-1-47354-176-4, S. 188. Originaltext: „There was a great deal of retaliatory fornication going on. During this time, Angie Bowie also had affairs with Ron Asheton and James Williamson of the Stooges. She and the young star's son Joe were eventually ‚let go‘ from the tour like any other troublesome component.“
Paul Trynka: Starman: David Bowie – The Definitive Biography. Hachette UK, London 2011, ISBN 978-0-74812-991-1, S. 243. Originaltext: „Defries initially encouraged [Schwab’s] rise, in order to diminish Angie’s influence. By the autumn of 1973, Coco had become David’s personal assistant […] [and] controlled access to David.“ Lynn Van Matre: Bitter but ho-hum memories of a life with a rock legend. In: Chicago Tribune vom 25. Januar 1993. Originaltext: „David increasingly withdrew from her as his career soared, eventually barricading himself behind sycophantic assistants and sinking deeper into a delusional paranoia fueled by cocaine, alcohol and other drugs. Eventually, he found it expedient to abandon her.“
Paul Trynka: Iggy Pop: Open Up And Bleed: The Biography. Hachette UK, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-74811-430-6, S. 86. Originaltext: „Now Coco controlled access to David, relieving the psychically overburdened star of a huge range of responsibilities, but infuriating everybody who felt they'd been frozen out – most notable Angie.“
Will the real David Bowie stand up? In: Sunday Mirror, Ausgabe 638 vom 20. Juli 1975, S. 8–9. „Angela Bowie has flown to New Mexico to spend a few days with her husband: the times they are together add up to about six months in a year. Togetherness is an alien concept – something for television to go on about.“
David Buckley: Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story. Random House, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-44813-247-8, S. 289. Originaltext: „Christmas of 1977 saw the final break with Angie: A disastrous pre-Christmas Swiss rapprochement led to Bowie leaving to spend the holidays and the first weeks of the New Year with Zowie and his nanny in West-Berlin. […] Angie jetted off […] to New York.“
Dylan Jones: David Bowie: A Life. Random House, New York 2017, ISBN 978-1-40905-263-0, S. 303. Originalzitat: „Our marriage was a partnership to accomplish making David a worldwide star. In the meantime we also had a love affair, which was very nice, and a child, which was even better. […] I fell in love with him but fell out of love with him and became more business-orientated after about 1975. […] We had done a deal originally when we got together. Not only that we would have an open marriage but that first we would work on his career and then we would work on mine. And that once we had finished those two jobs, we would both be successful and we would both be satisfied that we had done the best for each other. So I worked very hard on his career. […] By the time we had helped everyone else, he didn't have time for my career. He had forgotton those promises. It wasn't his job now, it was my job to do on my own. It really pissed me off.“
The Return of the Put-Together Man. In: Spin vom März 1987. Originaltext: „That summer, with no money, Angela lived in a sweltering four room railroad flat in the East Village with Zoey, and her two lovers.“
Paul Trynka: Starman: David Bowie – The Definitive Biography. Hachette UK, London 2011, ISBN 978-0-74812-991-1, S. 354. Originaltext: „By 1983, twelve-year-old Zowie had taken the name Joey, and in the summer of 1984, after staying with Angie and boyfriend Drew Blood at their Lower East Side tenement, he decided to break off contact with his mother.“
Toby Creswell: 1001 Songs. Hardie Grant Publishing, Richmond (Victoria) 2007, ISBN 978-1-74273-148-3, S. 15. Originalzitat: „Despite years of speculation on that matter, it is unlikely that the song „Angie“ is evidence that Mick Jagger was having an affair with David Bowie's wife Angela, or indeed David Bowie.“
Ian Chapman: David Bowie FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About Rock’s Finest Actor. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020, ISBN 978-1-49305-140-3, S. 190. Originalzitat: „Born in 1950, Angie, a vivacious Cyprus born American woman, was outgoing, cultured, smart, attractive, outwardly confident, theatrical, and highly strung with an X factor that would turn heads when she entered a room.“
David Buckley: Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story. Random House, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-44813-247-8, S. 54. Originalzitat: „Angie was attractive, actively bisexual, extravagant, prone to huge self-dramatisation and scene stealing faints, tantrums and collapses. She was also bright, cultured and likeable, if in a hugely demanding way.“
Steve Pafford: Bowie Style. Omnibus Press, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-85712-364-0, S. 116. Originalzitat: „[… David] Bowie found his perfect mate – a 19-year-old business studies student and American motormouth Mary Angela Barnett. She nursed and cultivated his ego, demanding little more than the opportunity to parade her star-in-waiting like a prize kitten. Angie's support was crucial: she hassled record companies, agents and journalists; encouraged her shy English boy to get out a bit and mingle with the rock crowd; and provided the magic ring of confidence he needed.“
Wayne Robins: A Brief History of Rock, Off the Record. Routledge, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-13592-346-4, S. 151. Originalzitat: „[David Bowie] and his wife, Angela, made bisexuality a kind of moral imperative, the most desirable of all orientations.“
Marjorie Gerber: Bisexuality and Celebrity. In: David Suchoff (Hrsg.), Mary Rhiel (Hrsg.): The Seductions of Biography. Culture Work: A Book Series from the Center for Literacy and Cultural Studies at Harvard. Routledge, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-13471-442-1, S. 14. Originalzitat: „For Angela Bowie, her bisexuality is her claim to fame. But why should someone be famous for being bisexual?“
K J Knight: Knight Moves: The K J Knight Story. Second Edition, Trafford Publishing, Bloomington 2020, ISBN 978-1-69870-010-6, S. 121. Originalzitat: „Angela was a brash and seductive bisexual predator. […] I found Angela’s loud and flamboyant personality disturbing.“
Dylan Jones: David Bowie: The Oral History. Crown, New York 2017, ISBN 978-0-45149-785-7, S. 146. Originalzitat: „Angie was hard work, a flower child gone wrong. Angie was a nutcase, completely wild. She was always a car crash.“
Dylan Jones: David Bowie: The Oral History. Crown, New York 2017, ISBN 978-0-45149-785-7, S. 146. Originalzitat: „Angie was the original Nancy Spungen, the original Courtney Love, and her downfall was that she wanted to be a star. But she didn’t have the skills, she didn’t have any skills. She was too top-heavy as a personality. She didn’t so much light up a room as detonate it. She had to be the center of attention.“
Paul Morley: The Age of Bowie. Simon and Schuster, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-4711-4810-1, S. 244. Originalzitat: „The rise and fall auf David and Angie Bowie coincides with the rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust, as though Angie was actually really married to Ziggy, and as soon as he was only really a shadow of his former self, she also found herself a shadow in David’s life, losing touch until it was like it never happened.“
David Buckley: Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story. Random House, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-44813-247-8, S. 54. Originalzitat: „Bowie and Angie always had a love/hate relationship. It was only much later in the relationship that what love there was dissolved into what seemed like mutual detestation.“
Steve Pafford: Bowie Style. Omnibus Press, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-85712-364-0, S. 116. Originalzitat: „[It was the] Second biggest mistake of my life marrying that woman.“
Ian Chapman: David Bowie FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About Rock’s Finest Actor. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020, ISBN 978-1-49305-140-3, S. 191. Originalzitat: „Bowie said of his fiery and unpredictable wife ‚Living with her was like living with a blowtorch‘. She has as much insight into the human condition as a walnut and a self-interest that would make Narcissus green with envy.“
Editors of TIME: David Bowie: His Life On Earth, 1947-2016. Time Inc. Books, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-61893-181-8, S. 46. Originalzitat: „‚I was born with a David Bowie album in my hand‘, said YSL-designer Hedi Slimane, ‚He was Adam, and Angie Bowie was Eve, to me.‘“
Simon Reynolds: Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century. Faber & Faber, London 2016, ISBN 978-0-57130-173-7, S. 194. Originalzitat: „At their first meeting, Defries sized up Bowie instantly as both a potential star and someone malleable. ‚They were like a couple of children‘, is how he described Angela and David Bowie in a 1974 interview with melody Maker, which may as well be the only one Defries ever gave, ‚The Three-year-old bringing its closest friend to see you. I’ve never been able to think of either of them as anything but a couple of children.‘“
Lemmy Kilmister, Janiss Garza: White Line Fever. Simon and Schuster, New York 2003, ISBN 978-0-67103-331-6, S. 200. Originalzitat: „[…] Angela Bowie (not that she’s any big deal – her claim to fame is that she was married to David Bowie).“
Kevin Courtney: Then & Now: Angie Bowie. In: The Irish Times vom 12. November 2011. Originaltext: „She introduced Bowie to many of the strange, eccentric types who would provide the blueprints for his future alter-egos.“
Kevin Courtney: Then & Now: Angie Bowie. In: The Irish Times vom 12. November 2011. Originaltext: „Angie’s arrival encouraged Bowie to explore his androgynous side.“
Kevin Courtney: Then & Now: Angie Bowie. In: The Irish Times vom 12. November 2011. Originaltext: „As Bowie’s career took off, however, Angie and Zowie were pushed into the background as Bowie moved onwards towards superstardom. They separated in 1976, and divorced in 1980.“
Kevin Courtney: Then & Now: Angie Bowie. In: The Irish Times vom 12. November 2011. Originalzitat: „John had Yoko, Mick had Bianca, and David Bowie had Angela Barnett, a flame-haired siren who inspired Bowie to develop his Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane and Thin White Duke personae. David and Angie were English rock’s quirky royal couple, looking and dressing alike in bright red mullets and silk kimonos, and shocking the music world with tales of drugs, cross-dressing, threesomes and bisexual trysts.“
Kevin Courtney: Then & Now: Angie Bowie. In: The Irish Times vom 12. November 2011. Originalzitat: „They separated in 1976, and divorced in 1980, after which, says Angie, Bowie tried to ‚edit‘ her out of his life. ‚Famous men frequently do that when they feel threatened by a woman’s influence,‘ she said. ‚They like to be thought of as the sole genius. God forbid that any woman helped them to get where they did. Picasso did the same thing to his women – he tried to write them off as insane.‘“
Auch Lou Reed schätzte Angela Bowies Rat in Kleidungsfragen. Den schwarzen Samtanzug, den er auf dem Cover seines Albums Transformer von 1972 trägt, hatte Angela Bowie ausgewählt. Quelle: Madeline Bocaro: Angela Bowie. The Prettiest Star. In: madelinex.com vom 1. August 2018. Originaltext: „Lou Reed credits Angie for creating his Transformer album cover look. […] It was Angie who selected his black velvet Spanish style diamante sequined suit.“ Lou Reed „Transformer“ presented by Colleen ‚Cosmo‘ Murphy. In: classicalbumsundays.com
Madeline Bocaro: Angela Bowie. The Prettiest Star. In: madelinex.com vom 1. August 2018. Originaltext: „Set in a now demolished Victorian mansion called Haddon Hall in a suburb of London, the Joneses (a.k.a. the Bowies) lived with a cast of flamboyant and interesting characters – David’s band-mates, gorgeous friends and clothing designers.“
Madeline Bocaro: Angela Bowie. The Prettiest Star. In: madelinex.com vom 1. August 2018. Originaltext: „Angie had an extremely keen marketing sense, and artfully designed the dramatic stage lighting for Bowie’s performances.“
Madeline Bocaro: Angela Bowie. The Prettiest Star. In: madelinex.com vom 1. August 2018. Originaltext: „When the two were seen out in public in astounding complementary garb […].“ Martin Popoff: Bowie at 75. Quarto Publishing Group USA, London 2022, ISBN 978-0-76037-438-2, S. 26. Originaltext: „[…] with Angie obtaining the matching look.“
Madeline Bocaro: Angela Bowie. The Prettiest Star. In: madelinex.com vom 1. August 2018. Originaltext: „She set up a safety net and a whirlwind of energy and creativity around him.“
Madeline Bocaro: Angela Bowie. The Prettiest Star. In: madelinex.com vom 1. August 2018. Originaltext: „Suzi Fussey Ronson: ‚Angie and I would take a limo and shop all over London with great fanfare only returning when the car was loaded down and groaning. I was in charge of cleaning, pressing and repairing everything.‘“
Madeline Bocaro: Angela Bowie. The Prettiest Star. In: madelinex.com vom 1. August 2018. Originaltext: „After seeing photos of Kansai Yamamoto’s models (and also of early supermodel Veruschka) with shaved eyebrows, Angie did the same and David was soon on board.“
Madeline Bocaro: Angela Bowie. The Prettiest Star. In: madelinex.com vom 1. August 2018. Originaltext: „In early concert films we can see Angie dancing wildly at the front of a near empty venue, hysterically screaming for Ziggy and generating a buzz which soon caught on like wildfire.“
Lucretia Tye Jasmine: The Prettiest Star: Angie Bowie-Barnett carries on. In: pleasekillme.com vom 6. August 2020. Originaltext: „[Angela Bowie] shaped his Ziggy alter ego, even sewed [some of] his costumes.“
Lucretia Tye Jasmine: The Prettiest Star: Angie Bowie-Barnett carries on. In: pleasekillme.com vom 6. August 2020. Originaltext: „After the publication of her second memoir, Backstage Passes (1993), ‚I had a lot of difficulties.‘ She moved to Atlanta, with her daughter, Stacia (born in 1981, from Angie’s former lover, the musician, Drew Blood). […] At a local club where she was performing, she met Michael Gassett.[…] They’ve been together ever since. […] She began working in construction with Gassett, a licensed electrician.“
Angie Bowie on life at Kingston University, hanging out with rock stars, Celebrity Big Brother and David Bowie. In: riveronline.co.uk vom 19. Oktober 2017. Originalzitat: “I found it very hard with a straight face to say, after not seeing him for 30 years, how fucking upset I was, when in actual fact I knew he’d be up there laughing his ass off going, ‘See Angie, I got the last laugh. You may be doing a TV show but, I’ll take the headlight’.” She adds, “It was all I could do to not burst out laughing.”
Eines Nachts, als sich die theatralische und manchmal eifersüchtige Angela vorsätzlich eine Treppe hinunterstürzte, stieg David Bowie, der sich um diese Zeit selbst als „gefühlskalt“ beschrieb, auf dem Weg zur Tür über sie hinweg und verabschiedete sich mit den Worten „Wenn du Lust hast und nicht tot bist, ruf mich an.“ Quellen: Mikal Gilmore: David Bowie: How Ziggy Stardust Fell to Earth In: Rolling Stone vom 2. Februar 2012. Originalzitat: „I’m a pretty cold person. A very cold person, I find. […] I can’t feel strongly. I get so numb. I find that I’m walking around numb. I’m a bit of an iceman.“ Mikal Gilmore: David Bowie: How Ziggy Stardust Fell to Earth. In: Rolling Stone vom 2. Februar 2012. Originalzitat: „One night, when the theatrical and sometimes jealous Angela threw herself down a staircase, David stepped over her on his way to the door, and said, ‚Well, when you feel like it, and if you’re not dead, call me.‘“
David Bowie sagte im Mai 1983 zu Kurt Loder vom Magazin Rolling Stone: „Der größte Fehler, den ich je gemacht habe, war diesem Schreiberling vom Melody Maker anzuvertrauen, dass ich bisexuell sei. Mein Gott, ich war damals noch so jung. Ich habe experimentiert…“ Quelle: Kurt Loder: David Bowie: Straight Time. In: Rolling Stone vom 12. Mai 1983. Originalzitat: „‚The biggest mistake I ever made‘, he said one night after a couple of cans of Foster’s Lager, ‚was telling that Melody Maker writer that I was bisexual. Christ, I was so young then. I was experimenting…‘.“
Mikal Gilmore: David Bowie: How Ziggy Stardust Fell to Earth. In: Rolling Stone vom 2. Februar 2012. Originalzitat: „David and Angela slept together that night. Angela knew that she wanted him, but she also knew that he slept with other people, including men.“
Mikal Gilmore: David Bowie: How Ziggy Stardust Fell to Earth. In: Rolling Stone vom 2. Februar 2012. Originaltext: „Traumatized by the birth, and making little claim to maternal instinct, Angela left on vacation to Italy a few days later, with a friend.“
Mikal Gilmore: David Bowie: How Ziggy Stardust Fell to Earth. In: Rolling Stone vom 2. Februar 2012. Originalzitat: „Angela Barnett, the woman who changed his world more than anybody. At first, he called her ‚the moon and the stars‘. Later, he would resent her more than anything else in his life.“
