A baker’s dozen of little-known facts about the original laughing gnome, David Bowie:

1. He was traumatised at the age of 8 when he saw his Polish schoolmate Zbigniew Tsardosk get hit by lightning.
2. He is the owner of the second-largest collection of ornamental garden figurines in Hollywood. Danny DeVito owns the largest.
3. He can change the colour of his eyes at will.
4. Until he appeared in Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, he had never seen a real cat.
5. He cuts his hair with butterfly knives.
6. His role as “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” was cut from the final edit of the movie Fahrenheit 451.
7. Bowie was given the soubriquet of the “Thin White Duke” thanks to his uncanny resemblance in his upper register to Duke Ellington.
8. His fancy dress of choice is Prince Harry.
9. His band the Tin Machine was named in honour of the robot hero of the 80’s TV show Metal Mickey, a programme directed by his favourite Monkee, Mickey Dolenz.
10. For two weeks in 1975, he stood in for Charlie Brown in the Peanuts cartoon strip while Brown had his tonsils removed.
11. He was the original model for the Subbuteo goalkeeper.
12. In the same falling-out-of-a-tree incident in which Duncan Goodhew lost his hair, Bowie’s turned pink overnight.
13. Brian Eno hasn’t spoken to him since Bowie’s wedding gift to Eno was a pair of underpants bearing the slogan “Here Jets The Warm Come.”

(This is an excerpt from Khmer Rouge Strippergram  blog www.thekettleisalwayson.blogspot.com/)

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