Funny how I report updates for a musician, and as a result unpurposefully discover more stuff and end up reporting more tangents to the original topic.
David Bowie's 65th birthday: Why glam rock legend is content to have retired from the limelight
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For the elder statesman of rock, who tomorrow turns 65 and officially becomes a pensioner, has retired from the limelight and is content to live the quiet life as a husband and father.
It is thought Bowie – real name David Robert Jones – has not written a new song in nine years.
“He’s no longer interested,” says a friend. “His days are very sedate. He reads a lot, he watches movies, he paints. He picks up his daughter from school most days and has a great air of contentment.
“He has nothing to prove and living a normal, functioning life for the first time is – to him – very exotic and attractive.
