Dec 3rd '09 by brandon @ 9:34am 9 Comments

In 1967 the 20-year-old Bowie received a letter from a 14-year old girl in New Mexico and was so excited he immediately sat down and typed her a page-long reply. “My real name is David Jones … I hope one day to get to America.”

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Comments (9)
  1. artrckr  |   Posted on Dec 3rd, 2009

    Aww! The Olds like to complain that the art of letter writing is lost, and now I’m wondering if they have a point.

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  2. sarahspy  |   Posted on Dec 3rd, 2009

    aw man. chillest guy. what a nice read.

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  3. lily  |   Posted on Dec 3rd, 2009

    Aww, that was very endearing. Yet another reason to love David Bowie.

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  4. Zooey!  |   Posted on Dec 3rd, 2009

    So sweet.

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  5. Curly  |   Posted on Dec 4th, 2009

    That brings me back to that time when I realised “A Day In The Life” and all those other songs was actually the same band that did “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”…Amazing! ;)

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  6. karen  |   Posted on Dec 6th, 2009

    I have to agree. There’s something sweet about his response and his apparent giddiness at receiving fan mail.

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