LONDON — Among the outpouring of tributes to David Bowie, the Economist did a fine job of honouring the late singer via an obituary and some brilliantly placed subheadings.
However, the magazine didn't quite represent his childhood accurately, according to Bowie's cousin Kristina Amadeus — who wrote in to The Economist's letters page to set the record straight.
In her dispatch, highlighted in a tweet from Bowie collaborator Brian Eno on Wednesday morning, she says she "was grateful for the insight and sensitivity in your obituary...but it is not true that he 'grew up as David Jones, a sharp-toothed kid from dull suburban Bromley whose parents held no aspirations for him'." Read more...
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