Life On Mars ; Zowie Bowie, Son of the Most Famous Rock Star On the Planet, Grew Up in an Alternative Universe of Bisexuality and Drug Addiction. In a Rare and Frank Interview, He Tells Marianne Macdonald How He Made Peace with His Father, Freed Himself From His Mother and Became Duncan Jones

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Waiting for Zowie Bowie in the Covent Garden Hotel I wonder idly if he'll look like David Bowie. There's only one adult picture of him in the archives a snatched paparazzi shot.

He has never done an interview before and doesn't want us to do a shoot with him either, because he doesn't want his face to be public.

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Life On Mars ; Zowie Bowie, Son of the Most Famous Rock Star On the Planet, Grew Up in an Alternative Universe of Bisexuality and Drug Addiction. In a Rare and Frank Interview, He Tells Marianne Macdonald How He Made Peace with His Father, Freed Himself From His Mother and Became Duncan Jones

Zowie (which he pronounces Zoe) is Bowie's son by his flamboyant American-born first wife Angie. He is 34, once went by the name Joe, and now calls himself Duncan Jones. He has spent his life turning down interviews.

But he has agreed to this one because he is a commercials director and has just made the Style v Fashion ad for French Connection apparently he wants to promote it.

'Hello,' says a voice. In front of me is a youngish man in Diesel jeans, trainers and a stretchy green and grey striped shirt. He has an open gaze and radiates niceness. He does look a little bit like David Bowie, I think a more ordinary, less handsome, craggier- built version without the...

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