On Monday, May 3, 2010 6:15:10 AM UTC+1, Curse Of Millhaven wrote:
> anybody know?
Most information about Bowie in recent years has come courtesy of his wife’s Twitter feed. In April when a fan tweeted at Iman asking her to put continuing rumors about Bowie’s ill health to rest, the supermodel responded that her husband was “Healthy & Happy.” And when the head teacher of Lexi’s primary school tweeted “Imagine David Bowie turning up to your school,” Iman retweeted the message with the addendum: “he turns [up] as david jones, dad.”
Over the years, Bowie has remained a dutiful husband supporting Iman’s fashion and philanthropic efforts. And in June 2010 he attended the CDFA Fashion Awards at Lincoln Center and told The New York Times where his priorities lie. “I’m not thinking of touring,” he said. “I’m comfortable.”
“When he takes on a character, he takes it on 110 percent. Right now, he’s in the character of the doting father and family man.
“His friends say he’s living life the wrong way around,” Trynka says. “Most people have kids and spend time with them while they’re in their 20s and 30s. David spent very little time with [his now adult son] Duncan while he was growing up. But now he’s spending a lot of time with his daughter.”
In October, however, Bowie is set to break his long silence with the scheduled release of his difficult-to-classify, top-secret book project, Bowie: Object, that stoked a hive of buzz when it was announced at the 2010 Frankfurt Book Fair. In keeping with the performer’s recent Greta Garbo-esque mystique, the book has been described so far only in oblique terms on
davidbowie.com: “Bowie: Object features 100 fascinating items that give an insight into the life of one of the most unique music and fashion icons in history. The book’s pictorial content is annotated with insightful, witty and personal text written by Bowie himself.”
To hear it from Ken Scott, who coproduced four of Bowie’s albums including 1971’s Hunky Dory and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars and has remained in semi-regular contact with the performer over the years, Bowie is not only bored with the idea of performing his yesteryear hits and sliding by on past glories, he is staunchly unsentimental and allergic to nostalgia. Moreover, says Scott—who has chronicled his exploits working with the performer in his new memoir, Abbey Road to Ziggy Stardust,—Bowie never stopped seeing himself as an “actor” taking on various roles in his life, a professional habit the rock icon developed four decades ago.
“When he takes on a character, he takes it on 110 percent,” says Scott. “Right now, he’s in the character of the doting father and family man. Maybe one day he’ll drop that character and become a rock-and-roll star again. And when he does, he’ll take that on 110 percent as well.”