By Caroline Howe For Dailymail. Rock legend David Bowie was consumed by his sex addiction which drove him to sleep with year-old girls, engage in wild orgies, and declare his bisexuality with a 'permanent erection,' a new book reveals. The British rock star's reputation of rampant sexual consumption inspired an offering of a warm dead body to sleep with when he was on tour in Philadelphia - an offer he later declined.
He was fixated on Hitler and watched Nazi movies while high on cocaine - a vice that nearly killed him. Bowie snorted so much coke for years he had to have cartilage removed from his body and put in his nose.
He never had a cigarette out of his hand and he weighed 95lbs. This was the boy from postwar Brixton [a district of south London ] with his sights set on the world,' writes author and British GQ editor Dylan Jones in his exhaustive and fascinating new biography, David Bowie: A Life , to be published by Crown Archetype on September 7.
Starman: Glam rock legend David Bowie was consumed by his sex and drug addiction that fueled his career. Fame: A new biography reveals the rock star would engage in orgies, have multiple affairs at once, and even invite others to watch him have sex. Bowie broke out of the monochrome world of his upbringing in southeast England in the 70s dressed like a pansexual spaceman in a Day-Glo jumpsuit, sashaying across the screen like a s film star, with dyed flame-red hair.
Behind the curve in the 60s, the 70s clicked for the singer musically and 'he exploited what he had in a way that was all-consuming,' writes the author. The son of a cinema usherette and a promotions officer for Bernardo's, a children's charity, Bowie, born David Jones, stated it was a happy childhood but also a lonely one.
