Patsy Kensit remembers strange hair-brushing encounter with David Bowie

Patsy Kensit has spoken about an interaction she once had with David Bowie that was “the most erotic experience” of her life.

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The actress has said that she was “completely in awe” of the singer while they filmed the film Absolute Beginners together in the mid-1980s.

Kensit was 16 years old at the time, and as she has told The Sunday Times, she was already a big Bowie fan before meeting him.

“Bowie was just gorgeous,” she said. “Heaven. I was 16 and I think he was 30. He was so lovely to everybody, and I was completely in awe.”

“I was also deluded, imagining that he’d fall in love with me, and we’d run off. And of course, I was in a line-up of people where he just shook my hand and then went along the line, and I was crushed.”

“But then one day I was sitting in make-up and he popped his head in the door and said hi.

“He came over, picked up a brush and just started brushing my hair. He didn’t say anything – he just brushed it, then walked away. It was the most erotic experience of my life.”

Absolute Beginners was not a commercial success upon its release in 1986, but Bowie’s title track became a major hit, reaching Number Two in the UK.

In other Bowie news, his classic 1974 album ‘Diamond Dogs’ is set for a 50th anniversary re-release. A limited edition, half-speed mastered LP as well as a picture disc LP pressed from the same master will be released on May 24 via Parlophone, on the exact day of the album’s anniversary.

It was also announced earlier this year that a new ‘Ziggy Stardust’-era Bowie album will be released for this year’s Record Store Day. ‘Waiting In The Sky (Before The Starman Came To Earth)’ is a collection of recordings from Trident Studios in 1971 of songs that would largely go on to form the legendary 1972 album, and will be available on Record Store Day, which is being held on April 20.

Kaiser Chiefs, meanwhile, recently doubled down on their claim that they once turned down lyrics that were suggested to them by Bowie, calling his suggestions “terrible”.

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