chiquita
Blueblood
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Nov 7, 2006 19:00:53 GMT -4
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Post by chiquita on Feb 26, 2016 20:02:48 GMT -4
I've mentioned before that the 70s was a debauched decade. However, if a the age of 15 I had gotten the opportunity to sleep with, say, David Cassidy or Bobby Sherman, I probably would have jumped in with both feet. Teen girls are stupid, just like teen boys. The girl might have been willing, but she was too young to be allowed to make that decision. Bowie should have known better, and as a father later I am sure he probably realizes that. But guys in their early twenties in the 70s didn't ask how old the hot groupie was, they just went for it. I guess I see it as less offensive because back then he looked like you could knock him over with a light breeze. Dude was in no way threatening. Add in the fact that Bowie was a drug addict, so he may not even have been together enough to process what he was doing, not that it excuses his behavior (she looks really young in those pictures). I take issue with the questions coming up after his death, when he can't defend himself as to what did or didn't happen with her. I realize it was published in November, but he was dying at that point, and I don't know if many people had even heard about it. I know the post here was the first I'd heard of the article or accusations against him.
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Post by Ginger on Feb 26, 2016 23:16:13 GMT -4
The story has been around for some time, not really as an accusation but as a groupie legend, so he had time to address it if he had wanted to. What I have noticed about the people who are hollering "rapist" on other forums is that they keep calling him a pedophile, which he wasn't, and they keep insisting that Lori was 13, even though they know she says she was turning 15. I keep wanting to ask them why they aren't condemning him for what he actually did. It is kind of implicit that they have to make the accusation worse because what he actually did isn't quite as bad as they want it to be.
I think it was definitely wrong and I was very disappointed when I read about it. But I think and I hope that he left that behind in the 70s though. He wasn't like Bill Wyman who did that shit when he was middle aged.
ETA the woman who accused Bowie of rape in the 80's sold her story to the Enquirer. They just revived it after his death under the headline "David Bowie died of AIDS!" It said bisexual David Bowie had bisexual AIDS because he was a bisexual and he told this woman all about it, then raped her and said "Now you have it too!" It was ridiculous, but I can see why that story would have sold well in 1987 when Bowie was really popular and everybody was afraid of AIDS.
ETA sorry for the duplication, I thought my original post didn't go through.
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Post by Oxynia on Jul 30, 2016 15:54:54 GMT -4
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Post by kostgard on Jul 30, 2016 17:43:16 GMT -4
Aw, I'm glad "David" is in his name.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2017 21:42:12 GMT -4
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luminosa
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Post by luminosa on Apr 28, 2017 22:16:55 GMT -4
Can't link from my phone, but my favorite video of all time is Mick and David's "Dancing In The Street". It is the weirdest, most random thing I've ever seen and I just adore it. Mick picking up an open beer can off the floor, David doing a little samba move, their singing into each other's eyes. God I miss him.
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catfrog
Lady in Waiting
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Post by catfrog on Apr 28, 2017 23:23:50 GMT -4
Aw man, "Sorrow". I completely forgot about that brilliant song! And "Dancing In The Street". I always loved the leg kicks they did standing in the doorway.
*Sigh* They don't make them like they used too. Who have this generation got to match up to that? I hate to think it's Lady Gaga.
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Post by Oxynia on Apr 28, 2017 23:49:19 GMT -4
The 1973 video for Sorrow from his "1980 Floor Show" TV special was a weird, campy thing of beauty. How could someone so freakish still be so impossibly sexy? And the out-take at the end of the video just proves he had the most infectious laugh of anyone. Damn, I miss him.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2017 0:05:27 GMT -4
I was always fascinated by the video for I'm Afraid of Americans, a lot of the images from that stuck in my head for years.
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Gigiree
Sloane Ranger
Procrastinators Unite. . . Tomorrow.
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Jul 23, 2010 10:27:31 GMT -4
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Post by Gigiree on Apr 29, 2017 2:33:24 GMT -4
Can't link from my phone, but my favorite video of all time is Mick and David's "Dancing In The Street". It is the weirdest, most random thing I've ever seen and I just adore it. Mick picking up an open beer can off the floor, David doing a little samba move, their singing into each other's eyes. God I miss him. Well then, have you seen this version? The first time I watched it I seriously laughed so hard I woke up MMS who was sleeping in another room.
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