Let's Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies by Pamela Des Barres Read Free Book Online Page B

oh boy, did I want that to happen from the moment I met him! They had this so-called open marriage, but until then I never had the opportunity. Also, I worked for him and Angie was his wife and my friend. So even though I was this wild thing, it did feel a little strange. If I was gonna do it, I was gonna sneak! It was wonderful. Bowie is an amazing lover, because he, too, is romantic. Although with him, one might feel he's acting, but who cares? Bowie is an actor. And I feel that way in life too. Whatever job you get, you put on the uniform, the costume, and act the way you think you'd act if you were in a play. Romance made lovemaking better, but I didn't always go for it. I went home with guys who I knew were into S&M and did some pretty weird things because I wanted to try everything. The missionary position between a man and a woman is great, because you can be kissing while you're coming. Who doesn't love it? Bowie was very good, athletic and strong and fun. But being with David was forbidden by Tony DeFries. Members of the staff weren't supposed to do that. We had been in Tony's room earlier, and Bowie made me sit in the same chair with him. DeFries was saying, `You better have those contracts typed tomorrow.' That made it all the more exciting, because it was forbidden. So were drugs on the tour, but we did drugs anyway. But by the time I was working for Bowie I didn't have much time for sex with anybody else. I tried girls, even Angie Bowie, but girls were not my cup of tea. There were a couple of guy groupies on the road, but by the time I worked for him, '72, '73, '74, my big groupie days were over. They kind of ended with Bowie."

    Seems like a pretty good place to stop, if stop you must. "It wasn't enough anymore. Once I got to work with Bowie on a business level and help make him a star, that was much more fulfilling than just having sex and then, good-bye. It wouldn't be satisfying to have sex without that mental connection and respect for what I was doing."
    After her lengthy stint with MainMan, Cherry was ready to pursue her own extremely creative side, and started doing a poetry act at clubs around Greenwich Village. "I had written a bunch of songs at Leon Russell and Carl Radle's house in Oklahoma. Then I went to my dear friend Michael Kamen and said, `I wanna write a rock and roll song.' And I wrote `Little Red Rooster,' about Bowie. Then I wrote a song called `The Punk,' about Punk magazine in New York, the Ramones, and what was going on in the punk scene. When I went to England, in February '77, it was the first single we recorded. They called us punk rock, but I thought we were lollipop, like a joke. I was being satirical, `Yeah, I'm a rock star, too!' I made two albums, for RCA UK. The first record was all rock and roll. During the second one, it was romance time with my guitar player, Louie. I thought it was punky to write hymns and love songs, punkier than trying to be punk. Like saying, `Fuck you! I'll do what I want!' But there were a couple of good tracks. Stuart Copeland, Henry Padovani, and Sting were in my band in England. They worked for me and the Police was my opening act. They didn't have Andy Summers then, and Henry was a real punk guitarist. By then, I was into one boyfriend at a time. I was monogamous, but they weren't, which I found out later. It was always my lead guitar player; I had a string of those."

    For the last eight years, Cherry has been working with Vangelis, the world renowned Greek composer/artist, most noted for his stunning Chariots of Fire soundtrack. "I met him in the RCA offices when we were both on RCA. He's the same age as I am, sixty-two. He was nothing like anybody I had ever been with before. I always loved skinny, little rock and roll boys. Here was a man my age, an intellectual, and I fell in love with his mind ... and his kindness. I fell in love in a whole new way. Vangelis kept sending for me, to do little `talk' things on his records, whatever excuse he