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

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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