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Article: Call that music? Can pop ever bridge the age gap? Even David Bowie and his daughter can't agree on what to listen to
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- April 30, 2008
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DAVID BOWIE is one of rock music's great innovators - but even he
has his limits. The singer's closeness to his seven-year-old
daughter Alexandria Zahra plainly doesn't extend to a shared liking
of chart pop.
Bowie's supermodel wife, Iman, says that he has to walk out of
the room when Alexandria plays her albums.
"Two weeks ago Alexandria was listening to Hilary Duff songs.
David just leaves the room, " she says.
"He thinks she should be listening to underground music."
But that's perhaps a unrealistic expectation for any young girl -
even if she's the daughter of Ziggy Stardust.
Of course, Bowie is far from being the first parent to fail to
appreciate his offspring's taste in music.
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