David bowie and mick jagger gay

I asked his mentor and photographer Cecil Beaton, who felt that Jagger, even though hetero, preferred to create an impression of bisexuality. Dancing in the Street, originally recorded by Martha and the Vandellas inwas re-recorded as a single by Mick Jagger and David Bowie in to raise money for Live Aid.

Originally they planned to perform the song together at the actual Live Aid concert in different cities at the same time but technical complications compelled them to make this video instead. Both the song and video were hasty, improvised affairs. Depending on your point of view, the video is either sublimely stupid or stupidly sublime.

It evokes vintage s Rolling Stones videos with its incessant camera mugging, overstated lip-synching, dreary settings, and bad dancing. You could not escape this song and video in the mids. The key to this video is how david bowie and mick jagger gay alludes to the rumor that Jagger and Bowie had sex with each other during their s wild party days.

According to Bowie and Jagger, they were just crashing on the same bed after a long night of partying. No sex. There are several possible interpretations of this famous rumor. To me, the most likely explanation is that they did not actually have sex, but wanted people to think they did for its shock value and publicity.

To some extent, I think the rumor was a PR ploy. Bowie was a PR master who exaggerated his homosexual tendencies as part of his star persona my China Girl essay discusses this further. Was he gay? The kid was 9; how would he have heard such a rumor? It was so pervasive growing up; everyone had heard it.

But did Jagger have sex with other men besides allegedly Bowie? Once he claimed to have had his first sexual experience with a boy during boarding school, but this is very common in England and not really an indicator of orientation or future sexual behavior.

The way he pouts his lips, shakes his hips, and sings right into the faces of the other Stones all unambiguously straight reek of queerness. Jagger, in contrast, swishes onstage. Indeed, the rumor is central to the whole video. But these master performers know how to convey what they want to convey.

I would guess they both consumed lot of cocaine to achieve the energy level displayed in the video. The frenetic energy suggests that they turn each other on sexually. The overall effect, however, is somewhat grotesque.

David Bowie and Mick Jagger: Exploring Sexuality and Masculinity in 1985

These are not young men anymore. Bowie looks good for his age, but his suave, mids jet-setter persona lacked the strong sexual vibe of his early s personas. Jagger is definitely showing his age. He was always a little ugly; that was key to his appeal somehow. I thought all the Rolling Stones were ugly when I was a kid.

I remember seeing them on Solid Gold in and being shocked at their ugliness. Personally, I think he looks better now in than he did in this video.