Article: ZOWIE BOWIE the boy who fell to Earth; How a son of rock royalty survived a bitter rift with his mother (and that daft name) to earn genuine success.(Features)

Byline: From Caroline Graham IN LOS ANGELES

His mother and father were drink and drug abusers, given to violent rows. While they disappeared on binges, he was left in the care of an employee. When his parents' marriage broke up amid acrimony and accusations, he was packed off to an austere boarding school where his ridiculous name set him apart from his classmates. And as he tried to make his own way in the world, he first had to step out from the long shadow cast by his rock-legend father.

It is a textbook blueprint for delinquency and dissolution. Had Duncan Jones, son of David and Angie Bowie and formerly named 'Zowie Bowie', become a fixture on the ...

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