'David Bowie Was More Don Juan Than Dorian Gray — A Woman's Fantasy'

Every week that passes, we seem to realize how deep the impact David Bowie has had on our minds. More than we ever felt, or imagined. His enigmatic ghost will haunt us, for sure.

David Lynch has paid tribute to David Bowie in his drama series Twin Peaks, dedicating the most recent episode to the late singer, as has been reported by the Guardian:

Bowie had briefly appeared in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, the 1992 film prequel to the cult TV series, as the dapper-suited, mentally fraught FBI agent Phillip Jeffries. According to Harry Goaz, who plays Andy Brennan, Bowie was due to appear in the current series of the show, but didn’t film his scenes before his death. Lynch nevertheless included him in the latest episode, using Fire Walk With Me footage in a dream sequence. 

But there is much more, drawn out of friends' memory. Novelist Hanif Koureishi went to the same London school as him, a decade apart, but their paths crossed, turning into a close friendship. In reviewing a new Bowie biography by Dylan Jones, titled David Bowie, A Life, Koureishi paints a vivid past, where 'Major Tom' is the undisputable lead character, in the fantastic setting of London in the sixties — and after.

Bowie wasn’t one to waste anything. Even his period of self-destructiveness yielded some of his finest work, which, like the Beatles’, was that incredibly difficult thing — both experimental and popular. He told me that cocaine almost killed him several times, his friends putting him in a warm bath just to keep his circulation moving. However, he was always concentrated and was never not serious about his career. Both otherworldly and extremely practical, when he had a new album he’d make the terrifying move of playing it to you, sitting opposite in a kimono with a pad and paper, ready to make notes, seeming to believe he could learn from you.

Koureishi is highly personal and candid here, helping us understand the greatly complex character Bowie was.

He was our starman and he knew it.