However, Bowie was pretty clear about his relationship with his first wife, Angie Bowie.
David Bowie met his first wife, Angie, because they were both dating the same man.
“Angela and I knew each other because we were both going out with the same man. Another one of her boyfriends, a talent scout for Mercury Records, took her to a show at The Roundhouse, where I happened to be playing. (Showbiz)
“He hated me. She thought I was great. Ultimately, she threatened to leave him if he didn’t sign me. So he signed me.”
Playboy asked, “And how was the situation with your mutual boyfriend resolved?” The “Let’s Dance” singer replied, “I married Angela and we both continued to see him.”
Playboy asked Bowie why he married Angie. Bowie replied that she was the only person he could stand to live with for more than a week.
“Because I realized that she’d be one of the very few women I’d be capable of living with for more than a week,” Bowie said. “She is remarkably pleasant to keep coming back to. And, for me, she always will be.
“There’s nobody more demanding than me. Not physically, necessarily, but mentally. I’m very strenuous. Very intense about anything I do. I scare away most people I’ve lived with.”
However, Bowie wasn’t in love with her. “Never have been in love, to speak of,” he said. “I was in love once, maybe, and it was an awful experience. It rotted me, drained me, and it was a disease.
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“I didn’t think it would last and David said, before we got married, ‘I’m not really in love with you’ and I thought that’s probably a good thing.
“Then I think he fell in love with me because he got really mad when we broke up and he behaved like a b****y queen.”
Angie gave birth to the couple’s son, Duncan, in 1971. However, Bowie and his first wife couldn’t make things work and eventually separated in 1980. In 1992, Bowie married his second wife, Somali model Iman. They had their daughter Alexandria “Lexi” in 2000.
