Bowie Jagger Story Is Not New

I heard this years ago, like ten years ago, but it was never more than an urban legend at the time.  It seems that Mick Jagger and David Bowie were friends with benefits.  Not that there's anything wrong with that.

David Bowie and Mick Jagger’s friendship was once, apparently, a friends-with-benefits situation. In his new biography of the Rolling Stones front man, “Mick,” author Christopher Andersen describes how Bowie and Jagger coupled during their 1970s heyday.

“Where Jagger was still coy about his own sexual preferences, Bowie made no effort to conceal the fact that both he and his wife were bisexual and often shared partners,” Andersen writes in an excerpt of the book published by theNew York Daily News. ‘”Mick looked at David and wondered if maybe this was the wave of the future,’ said Leee Black Childers, former executive vice president of MainMan, the management firm that handled Bowie. ‘Mick was very conscious of doing whatever it takes to stay hot; David was the hottest thing around at the time.’”

I had to snicker at the "doing what was hot at the time" comment, but otherwise this is the story I heard verbatim.  So now we know.

I suppose it's important to point out that people who enjoyed their music haven't started sleeping with animals or slaughtering children, as the 'phobes would have us believe.  Two guys slept together, made awesome music, and nobody got hurt.

It's amazing what can happen when people mind their own business.