The usual first line of defense in these arguments is “separating the art from the artist,” which is in many cases a necessary coping mechanism for women to be able to enjoy anything produced before men began to be held accountable for their behavior—but in this case, it doesn’t apply.

Bowie is in the “People Like Him” category and because he is dead, will likely never leave that category.

If people want to demonize Bowie over this, they’re going to need to throw out their entire collection of rock albums from the late 60s and 70s because there are probably very few of these musicians who weren’t having sexual dalliances with some underage fans.

I hate Steven Tyler and Charlie Sheen and David Bowie and Chris Brown and Bill Cosby and R. Kelly and Sean Connery and Michael Fassbender and I’d go on but I’m giving myself a rage stroke here.

WTF was wrong with EVERYONE in the 70's???

It is new information for ME, and I was born in 1974, and I watched Labyrinth, and I listened to his music. I have never seen nor heard Lori Maddox’s “fond retelling of this story” before. So, NOW that I know NOW, he was a child RAPIST of two drugged-out girls from hash he GAVE them, and he was the ADULT, and he was…