The Girl in the Back by Laura Davis-Chanin

Author:Laura Davis-Chanin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Published: 2018-06-20T16:00:00+00:00

Part 2

19

Mars

It was in the late summer of 1979 when I met him. Jimmy and I were in a cab going uptown to Debbie and Chris’s house near Central Park for one of their impromptu get-togethers when he told me.

“So, Bowie’s going to be there, you know.”

My lungs suddenly stiffened. I looked over at him.

“What?” I spluttered.

I gasped quickly to get back to breathing.

“Yeah,” Jimmy said. “He’s doing some work with Debbie, so he’s going to be there.” He fished for his Parliaments and opened the cab window as he lit up. I stared out my side, recovering from the loss of oxygen, watching the city’s buildings scale past me, then disappear. I thought about seeing him at the Garden with Bill a few years back—how far away he’d been on that stage—explosive and spiraling into the ether above us. I thought about the Aladdin album, and Ziggy Stardust. Ziggy Stardust. Ziggy.

“Stop that,” Jimmy said when the cab driver hit the brakes at Fifty-Eighth Street.

“Stop what?” I asked.

Did he know what I was thinking? Maybe when I got upstairs, they would all know. Maybe they all knew that I was just a starstruck teenager who believed that Bowie was Ziggy, that he had come down from Mars and that I was his contact on earth, that I was here to save him, that I was not one of them, that I was not a rock musician or anywhere near it, that I was a fraud and that I shouldn’t be there.

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