He’d like to come and meet us
But he thinks hed blow our minds
This is about Bowie, but not the Bowie you are thinking. It is about his son, Duncan Jones (Zowie Bowie). He was born at Beckenham Hospital in Kent. David wrote the song “Kooks” for his 1971 album Hunky Dory when Zowie was born. It kind of shows what kind of a dad David could be!
And if you ever have to go to school
Remember how they messed up this old fool
Don’t pick fights with the bullies or the cads
‘Cause I’m not much cop at punching
Other people’s Dads
And if the homework brings you down
Then we’ll throw it on the fire
And take the car downtown
As a child, Zowie spent time growing up in Berlin, London, and Vevey, Switzerland where he attended the first and 2nd grade at the Commonwealth-American School. In 1980, when David and Angela divorced, David Bowie was granted custody of 9-year-old Zowie, who was enrolled in the prestigious Scottish boarding school, Gordonstoun.
Around the age of 12, Zowie decided that he preferred to be called “Joe Jones” and so adopted that name. His father David has been quoted as saying “If when he gets old enough to care about his name he doesn’t like it, he can always change it, or give himself a nickname, it’s OK by me.” The press reported that he went by “Joe” in 1992 when attending his father’s wedding to Iman Abdulmajid (he was the best man).
At the age of 18, Joey decided that it would be best to refer to himself as Duncan Jones.
Now Duncan Jones is making a name of his own with his debut film “Moon”. The movie tells the story of Sam Bell’s (Samuel Rockwell) lonely tenure on a faraway lunar station. A robot (voiced by Kevin Spacey) is his only companion; messages from his wife and daughter are delivered via satellite. And it isn’t long before space sickness — or something even more sinister — takes hold of his imagination.
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