Lyric discussion by HibernusMortis 

The Mick Jagger/David Bowie in bed together, well is atruth, but only to the fact that they were both smoking opium and passed out on Jaggers huge bed, and having Keith Richards wife Anita walk in on them passed out there on the bed. Anita had it out for Mick at the time and started telling everyone he she found both of them in bed "together". Hence the rumor.... Awesome song, always took the song to be about young sexuality confusion and cross dressing. It never does mention in the song if the person sung about IS a boy or a girl. And with Bowie being in his "bi-sexual" stage at the time it could be referenced to either one IMHO.

right on

@HibernusMortis it was Angela Bowie who supposedly “caught” them in bed together. At least that’s all I’ve ever heard, I’ve never heard it was Anita Pallenberg.

The only time I’ve heard Angie and Anita confused is over whether the song “Angie” was about one or the other. Near as I can tell, the song is actually about Anita & Keith, but for some reason they used the name “Angie” - which was inspired by Angela Bowie - to at least hide the song’s real life subject(s) a bit.

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