Backstage Passes: Life on the Wild Side with David Bowie by Angela BowieMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Time taken to read - 1 day
Pages - 368
Publisher -
Source - Bought
Blurb from Goodreads
Angela Bowie has produced this scandalous, sexy, and uncompromising memoir of her turbulent years with David. She recounts how she launched him from cult hero to superstar and managed his career. Angela witnessed and shared it all―the bisexual orgies; David; decline at the hands of satanic cults and cocaine; and the lives and loves of Mick, Elton, Marianne, Iggy, Rod and Lou to name a few.
My Review
I didn't really know much about David Bowie, yeah his songs well some of but that was about it. Didn't know he had been married nor really any of his rise to fame stuff. Angela Bowie I didn't know until she was on celebrity big brother and her famous scene of the David's dead and poor Tiffany. Anyway after that stint I Googled her and saw she has this book, bought it and in true Lainy style it stayed on my tbrm since 2016 til now!
The book centres hugely on her and David's time together, we get a little of Angela before it and some of her antics whilst married but doing her own thing. What a wild time she had, free love indeed. She does name drop some people throughout the book and some very spicy stories of sexual times/partners before during and after (but still married) with David.
She drops the lowdown on what it was like being with him, dealing with his managers, people in his circle, getting to stardom and the before. His and her usage of drugs, both their sexual experiences together and apart, even dropping some names of people we know and again, free love.
She is a very different person from the one we seen on CBB and I don't know how much of what she wrote will be a surprise to folk. She did say there was a lot of people not happy about the book and her interview she gave once the NDA expired, I need to look up a few of the interviews and songs.
It is certainly an interesting read, Hollywood scandal, gossip and an insight into Bowie's creative process and rise to fame and how it affected him as he rose, 4/5. Interesting for sure and who doesn't love a bit of gossip and sneak peek behind the curtain of celebrity life/showbiz.
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