Top Ten Bowie Babes

David Bowie Was a Modern Rock Master

The death of David Bowie is such a fucking major loss for us all. He shaped our culture, our art, our movies, and our ability to embrace the weird. He officially opened the door for all of us to wear makeup and try out another life and identity anytime we want to, and he encouraged the concept of one's life as performance art. If you have read my work on this site for any amount of time, you know I am down, down, down with that. He was Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke and a husband and a father and a rock star. The world is truly better for having him in it, and that is about as good as it gets for any of us. I already miss sharing the same planet.

His death from cancer is just heartbreaking, but everything and everyone beautiful ends some time, and that length of time they are around is made more exciting by the fact that they are mortal. Here are ten women who made a mark on his life and his art/music:

Angela Bowie

Bowie's first wife is a model, artist, and glam rocker who co-created the Ziggy Stardust costumes and their son, Duncan Jones. The two divorced in 1980 and although she was widely rumored to have been the inspiration for the Rolling Stones song "Angie", Mick Jagger and Keith Richards consistently deny that that is true. Her then-husband Bowie did pen the song "The Prettiest Star" for her, so she wasn't left out in the cold.

Iman

Gorgeous supermodel/actress/ethnic makeup entrepreneur Iman was happily married to Bowie from 1992 until his passing. They worked on a few projects together including a video game and their daughter born in 2000. They had a happy marriage from all reports, and that is a beautiful thing to achieve in a lifetime.

Candy Clark

Clark was Bowie's costar and love interest in the 1976 sci-fi drama "The Man Who Fell To Earth" and she (and/or her body double) get plenty naked and sexy in her scene with Bowie in this. Clark's character in the movie introduces Bowie's alien to sex, alcohol, and religion as part of their ultimately tragic relationship. It is a movie that you absolutely need to see if you call yourself a Bowie fan.

Debbie Harry

The above video is of Blondie doing their very first TV appearance in 1977, which is also the year that the band with lead singer Harry went on tour with Bowie and Iggy Pop.  Fuck, that tour must have been amazing to see.

"[Bowie] gave me advice on working the stage," Harry recalled to Rolling Stone in a recent interview. "I moved around, but it was about delivery as an actor. Inevitably you have to take the advice. If he'd said, 'Get out of town,' I probably would have done that, too."

Natassja Kinski

Bowie wrote the title theme to this hot 1982 horror/fantasy starring Kinski as a young woman who learns that her sexual urges turn her into her into a black leopard who kills her non-feline lovers. Kinski is totally smoldering in this, and Bowie took that sexual inspiration and made a damn fine song about it.

Catherine Deneuve

Deneuve stars in this very erotic 1983 vampire thriller which, as you will see if you check this movie out, that Lady Gaga used to inspire her performance during the last season of American Horror Story. Bowie plays one of Deneuve's lovers who is made immortal by her feeding on his blood. It is a very, very sexy movie and Bowie enjoyed an affair with co-star Susan Sarandon during the making of this.

Jennifer Connelly

Connelly was Bowie's costar in this 1986 film, which turned out to be the last film directed by Muppets creator Jim Henson. Bowie was Jareth the Goblin King who attempts to seduce Connelly at a costume ball designed to keep her in his imaginary world forever. I was one of the teenage girls who could not help but notice the bulge in Bowie's tights throughout this movie, and Bowie's delivery of "Fear me. Love me. Let me be your slave" was a revelation at the time. 

Claire Forlani

Bowie did an excellent job playing Andy Warhol in this 1996 biopic about doomed artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Forlani plays Basquiat's girlfriend who nurtures Jeffrey Wright as the artist and encourages him even though he remains an aloof, emotionally unavailable enigma to her. Bowie wore Warhol's real wigs in this flick and it is a moving tribute to a brilliant artist's life cut short.

Milla Jovovich

Bowie plays himself as the judge of a "walk-off" between male supermodels Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson in this great 2001 comedy. Jovovich is smoking hot in this movie as evil supermodel henchwoman Katinka so there was that around the set for Mr. Bowie to enjoy.

Scarlett Johansson

Bowie plays Nikola Tesla in this 2006 dramatic thriller about rival magicians, and ScarJo was on hand playing a luscious and deceptive magician's assistant. Bowie is absolutely brilliant in this and if you have not seen this Christopher Nolan-directed film, you really, really should.