Bowie and me: Tales from two of the women in the music legend's life
David Bowie and Dana Gillespie in 1971. (Picture: M Stroud/Daily Express/Getty Images)
It isn’t groundbreaking news to mention there were many women in David Bowie’s colourful life. At times, the professional and the personal became intertwined for the late singer, and two women who shared stages, studios and beds with Bowie in the early 1970s were Dana Gillespie and Ava Cherry. Both have penned memoirs that detail those heady days, and both will be guests at the upcoming Dublin Bowie Festival.
Gillespie first met Bowie in November 1964 at London’s Marquee when he was still Davie Jones. The teenagers quickly became firm friends and occasional lovers, sharing a manager, musicians and even a song, with Bowie writing Andy Warhol for Gillespie in 1971.
