Dorsey would remain BowieвЂ™s touring bassist. WeвЂ™re about to say goodbye to her for a time, as Mark Plati and Tony Visconti were the only bassists on the stretch of albums between Hours and Reality (as fate would have it, the one album she did play on during this time, Toy, was never issued). While she had a marvelous voice, she rarely sang on BowieвЂ™s albums and, more strikingly, she didnвЂ™t play on many of them. Gail Ann Dorsey.ДЄnd that said, thereвЂ™s a sense of missed opportunity with Dorsey and Bowie. Occasional studio contributors, like the violinist Lisa Germano.Д«ut thereвЂ™s only been one woman who stands in the вЂњfrontlineвЂќ of Bowie musicians, the only one whose name ranks with the likes of Gabrels or Garson, Alomar or Slick: Ms. Backing singers like Emm Gryner, Holly Palmer and Robin Clark. There were choreographers and costumers like Toni Basil and Natasha Korniloff.

Corrinne Schwab has quietly run his empire since the mid-Seventies. Angela Bowie, who in the early Seventies was essentially BowieвЂ™s manager, strategist, minder, roadie and work-engine (for all we know, ImanвЂ™s played the same role in the past 20 years). There were muses and fellow performers: Hermione Farthingale, Dana Gillespie, Ava Cherry. There obviously have been women (a great many) in BowieвЂ™s personal life on stage and in the studio, itвЂ™s been a far different matter. The story of David BowieвЂ™s music is that of a boyвЂ™s club.

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