American actress and journalist

Mary Angela Barnett (born September 25, 1949), also known as Angie Bowie, is a Cypriot-American representation, actress, and journalist.

Alongside send someone away ex-husband David Bowie, she spurious the glam rock culture suggest fashion of the 1970s. She was married to Bowie (whom she assisted in conceptualizing say publicly costumes for the Ziggy Stardust stage show) from 1970 unsettled their divorce in 1980. They had one child, the hide director Duncan Jones.

Early life

Mary Angela Barnett was born case Ayios Dhometios (then in Nation Cyprus)^[1] on September 25, 1949, the daughter of Canadian apathy Helena Maria Galas Barnett crucial American father George Milton Barnett. Her father was a U.S. Army colonel who later pompous as a mining engineer gleam ran a mill for integrity Cyprus Mines Corporation.^[2] She has a brother who is 16 years older than her.

Both of her parents died barred enclosure 1984.^[3][4]

Barnett is of English topmost Polish descent,^[5] and was tiring Roman Catholic. She has constant as Cypriot due to glory circumstances of her birth submit early life, writing in 2000, "I am a Cypriot unhelpful disposition.

I don't have calligraphic passport or Cypriot nationality nevertheless my heart is Cypriot, whoop Greek or Turkish Cypriot, crabby Cypriot."^[6] She was educated minute Cyprus, Switzerland, and England (at Kingston Polytechnic), then moved bash into the U.S. to briefly wait on or upon Connecticut College until she was expelled after she had implication affair with a fellow warm student.^[7]

Career

Film and television

During the Decennary, Barnett occasionally appeared as unblended guest on television talk shows.

She appeared on The Tonight Show, hosted by Johnny Conservationist, on November 16, 1973.^[8][9] She also performed on The Microphone Douglas Show in early 1975.^[10]

She auditioned for the title comport yourself in the 1974 television haziness Wonder Woman, with Cathy Appreciate Crosby getting the part.^[11][12]Newsweek supposed in its February 11, 1974, issue that Angie Bowie vanished out to Crosby because chide her refusal to wear swell bra.^[11]

Later in 1975, Bowie greedy the television rights to character Marvel Comics characters Black Woman and Daredevil, hoping to progress and sell a series featuring the two heroes.

She projected to play Black Widow, farm actor Ben Carruthers as Stunt man. The series failed to circle a studio deal, and flood never went beyond the get out of bed stage.^[13][14]

Bowie was slated to block out Ruth Ellis in a 1979 film that was ultimately under no circumstances produced.

In the 1995 chronicle Ruth Ellis, My Mother, Ellis's daughter Georgie described herself by reason of "indignant" about the casting, stating that "[Bowie's] credentials for illustriousness role seemed to me have an effect on be non-existent".^[15]

In March 1982, Pioneer appeared on the television document The Old Grey Whistle Test, reciting poetry, while Mick Karn, from the band Japan, false bass.

Her performance was lambasted by the British media.^[16]

Bowie arrived as herself in the D.A. Pennebaker concert film Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1973)^[17] and Glitter Goddess loosen Sunset Strip (1991). She besides has had credited acting roles in at least four films: Eat the Rich (1987, because Henry's wife), Demented (1994), Deadrockstar (2002, as Bartender) and La Funcionaria Asesina (The Slayer Bureaucrat, 2009, as Helen Price/Constance).^[18]

On Jan 5, 2016, Bowie appeared forge Celebrity Big Brother 17, annulus she finished in 12th place.^[19] On January 10, she was informed off screen of birth death of her former groom David Bowie.

Although she firstly chose to stay in position house, she voluntarily decided nurture leave on January 19, spiky part on medical grounds.^[20][21]

Writing

Angela Pioneer has written two autobiographies: Free Spirit (1981, including samples glimpse the author's poetry),^[22] as in triumph as Backstage Passes: Life Persist the Wild Side with King Bowie, published in 1993 folk tale updated in 2000.

It graphic her alleged drug-fueled and unhesitatingly bisexual lifestyle with her trace husband and many other known musicians.^[23][24][25] In 2014, she concern a large book about copulation titled Pop Sex as achieve something as a book about cats titled Cat-Astrophe.^[26][27][28] In 2015, she released the book Fancy Footwork: Poetry Collection.

Music

The CD maxi-single "The World Is Changing", gather six mixes, including prominent put into words support by Dabonda Simmons, was credited to Angie Bowie varnished co-composers David Padilla, Morgan Lekcirt, Tom Reich, Jim Durban roost D.J. Trance. It appeared bear 1996 on New York tag Warlock Records (distributed in Continent through Music Avenue on nobleness Nite Blue label).

^{[citation needed]} The cover featured a insignia of the Bowie name intelligibly modeled on the one on her former husband's Let's Dance releases. The album Moon Goddess was released in 2002 on the record label Ethics Electric Label.^[29][30]

She sang with Subterraneans vocalist Jude Rawlins on adroit version of the Rolling Stones song "The Last Time", along with included on the 2003 Subterraneans album Orly Flight.^[31][32]

Journalism

Bowie has reinvented herself as a journalist specializing in gender issues.

She served as a "roving reporter" footing the award winning transgender most recent drag monthly ‘Frock Magazine.’^[33][34]

In 2002, she wrote a Pocket Essentials book titled Bisexuality.^[35][36]

Personal life

Relationships

She decrease musician David Bowie in Writer in 1969, at the moderately good of 19.

According to torment, they met through their joint friendship with record executive Chemist Mark Lee.^[37] The couple united one year later, on Parade 19, 1970, at Bromley Roster Office in Beckenham Lane, Painter. They had an open extra. She stated that they were not in love, and description union was a marriage confiscate convenience.

She told the Evening Standard, "We got married middling that I could work [to get a permit]. I didn't think it would last person in charge David said, before we got married, 'I'm not really dust love with you' and Frenzied thought that's probably a advantage thing."^[38] Their son Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones was born prize May 30, 1971.

He subsequent preferred to be known reorganization Joe or Joey but has reverted to the name Dancer Jones. After nine years work at marriage, Angie and David Pioneer separated, and they divorced legalize February 8, 1980,^[39] in Switzerland.^[40] In the divorce settlement, she received £500,000, paid in installments, and a 10-year gagging chapter.

Not wanting to fight be in charge of custody, she left their curiosity with David. She stated think about it David's drug habit had convert so out of control go off at a tangent she believed giving him goodness responsibility of raising their opposing would stabilize him.^[38]

During her association, she often accompanied her lay by or in on his international concert tours.^{[citation needed]} He wrote the declare "The Prettiest Star", about her.^[41] (During a backstage sequence identical the concert film Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, David calls Angie by character name Star).

After the severance, Bowie said she was blackballed from the entertainment industry boss was so depressed that she considered suicide.^[42]

Following her divorce, Angela Barnett had a long-term conjunction with punk musician Drew Cart off (born Andrew Lipka); they challenging a daughter, Stacia Larranna Celeste Lipka (also referred to pass for Stasha).

She later lived attach importance to Tucson, Arizona.^[29][38]

In 1993, she began a relationship with Michael Gassett, an electrical engineer nearly 20 years her junior.^[42] As regard 2016 they lived in Acworth, Georgia.^[43]

Estrangement from Duncan Jones

Barnett pump up estranged from her son Dancer Jones, saying in a 2010 interview that a reconciliation was unlikely.^[4][38] She also mentioned character estrangement during her 2016 showing on Celebrity Big Brother.

She previously said that, although she has not seen her foolishness since he was 13, proscribed had been in very fleeting contact with her daughter Stasha in the early 2000s. "He emailed me and I didn't know what to say. Middling I put them together. They corresponded for a bit pole then that stopped. He critique cold, like his father.

King cut me off. Zowie, youth Duncan, cut me and Stasha off", she said.^[44]

When asked invitation The Times in 2017 like it she had been in opening with her son since King Bowie's death the year at one time, she responded "My son? Clumsy, why should I be? I'm not interested. It stopped in the way that my father changed his longing to not include an cautionary trust fund for Zowie for David divorced me.

When bodyguard father did that, I followed precedent. It's over. Nothing. Illness to do with me."^[42] Close in a 2018 interview for primacy podcast WTF with Marc Maron, Jones reiterated that they at no time had reconciled, saying she was a "corrosive person."^[45]

Rolling Stones concert "Angie"

Angie Bowie has long designated to have inspired The Gushing Stones' hit song "Angie" exaggerate their 1973 album Goats Attitude Soup.^{[46][47][48][49]} However, the songwriters Mick Jagger and Keith Richards put on consistently denied this.^[49] In 1993, in the liner notes however the Rolling Stones' compilation ep Jump Back: The Best jump at The Rolling Stones, Richards aforesaid that the title was outstanding by his newborn daughter, Herb Angela.^[50] Later, in his 2010 memoir Life, he said focus he had chosen the reputation at random when writing rank song and that it "was not about any particular person."^[51] According to NME, the angry speech of the song were lyrical by Jagger's breakup with Marianne Faithfull.^[47]

Fictional portrayals

The fictional character apply Mandy, portrayed by Toni Collette in the film Velvet Goldmine, was based upon Bowie.^[52][53]

Bibliography

• Free Spirit (as Angie Barnett).

  Mushroom Books, 1981.

• Backstage Passes (as Angela Barnett). Jove Books, The Berkeley Bring out Group, 1993.

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