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Bing Crosby's affection for the
game of golf was legendary. Here
he is (below) in 1942 with some of
the golf balls collected for the
Scrap Rubber Drive during World
War II
Dixie Lee, the first
Mrs. Bing Crosby
Crosby and Danny
Kaye in the 1954
runaway hit film
White Christmas. It
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moneymaker in 1954
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years later, remains a
holiday favorite as
millions make
watching
White
Christmas
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tradition.
Bob Hope and
Crosby in
Road to
Bali (1952). Like
Danny Kaye,
Fred
Astaire, and other
film stars of his era,
Crosby was a
versatile entertainer;
he danced, sang,
and acted with
equal facility and
charm.
[Bing Crosby's] duet with [David] Bowie on "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy" generated so much interest that it was later released as a single and became an annual holiday classic. At the end of the century, TV Guide listed the Crosby-Bowie duet as one of the 25 most
memorable musical moments of 20th century television.
—Wikipedia
Left: Bowie and
Iman, 2009, at
the Tribeca
Film Festival
premiere of
Moon, the
feature debut
of Bowie's son,
Duncan.
Photo: David
Shankbone
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If you’re under a certain age, you need to understand the subtext of this 1977
video.
Bing Crosby — one of the biggest stars of the 1940s and 1950s, and still a
popular celebrity when he died in 1977, was very straitlaced and conservative, a
strict
Roman Catholic, and David Bowie… wasn’t.  

Bing Crosby: He could carry a tune
Bing Crosby's singing and acting career "stretched over more than half a century
from 1926 until his death. Crosby was a best-selling artist until well into the rock
era, with over half a billion records in circulation."
(Wikipedia) Apart from some
youthful drinking and indulgence in marijuana, Bing was so squeaky-clean, both
publicly and privately, that the public sometimes wished (although it was none of
"the public's" business) that he were less strict with his four sons (from his
marriage to
Dixie Lee, who suffered from acute alcoholism and who died of cancer
in 1952). Two of the couple's four sons committed suicide,
Lindsay in 1989 and
Dennis in 1991. Bing Crosby had three children with his second wife, Kathryn Grant
Crosby.... Asked what he would write for his own epitaph, Crosby replied, "He was
an average guy who could carry a tune."

David Bowie — Mega-Shocker, Megastar
David Bowie is a highly respected "English musician, actor, record producer and
arranger. Active in five decades of popular music and frequently reinventing his
music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his
work in the 1970s. He has been cited as an influence by many musicians and is
known for his distinctive voice and the intellectual depth of his work."
(Wikipedia)
His music has been tagged as "psychedelic folk," "glam rock," "heavy metal," and a
dozen other styles, some of which he invented. On tour, he has startled even hard-
core fans with his androgynous appearance, "ultra" theatrics, and "shocking stage
moments, such as ... stripping down to a sumo wrestling loincloth or simulating oral
sex with [a band  member's] guitar."

Though he has admitted being bisexual, he later distanced himself from that claim.
He married the Somali-born supermodel
Iman Abdulmajid at Saint James Church
in Florence in 1992. Their daughter, Alexandria Zahra Jones (she goes by "Lexi"),
was born in August 2000. The family has homes in Manhattan and London.
Duncan
Zowie Haywood Jones, Bowie's son with his first wife, was born in 1971. He earned a
bachelor's degree and then graduated as a director from the
London Film School.

Bowie has been notorious at times — for years of heavy drug abuse, particularly
cocaine; and for "politically radical comments, saying that Britain could benefit
from a fascist leader and that
Adolf Hitler was 'the first super-star.'" Yet Bowie has
steadily reinvented his image and his music so creatively that he is said to have
progressed from "superstar" to "megastar." Some who know him well say that the
private David Bowie is a loving family man but that periodically shocking the public
is part of his mystique.

Culture Clash
The wildly differing backgrounds of Bowie and Crosby set up a cultural tension
between the two that makes their duet all the more poignant — like watching the
Crips and Bloods Mixed Chorus, maybe. It’s also helpful to know that “White
Christmas” was a huge hit for Bing Crosby —his signature song, in a way. This
video is lovely, and Bing and Bowie are fun to watch. The duet, I think, is
overorchestrated, which blunts the impact of the two very different men making
music together. Even so, it’s a rare treat. I hope you enjoy it. And a very Merry
Christmas to you and yours. —
Mary
Bing & Bowie — A once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon!
Left: 1967
album cover

Right: 2009,
as "Music's
Most
Fashionable
Man"
White Christmas, the DVD
Bing & second wife Kathy
Crosby on the cover of
People
Magazine, Dec. 16, 1974
Bing, Dixie Lee, and their
four sons. This photo was
part of a promotion for the
Crosbys' Christmas radio
show (1947?), which you can
download free.
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In Toronto, 2005. Photo
by
Leahtwosaints via Flickr
David Bowie, 1990,
performing in Chile
Bing
Bowie
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