One of the most enduring stories about David Bowie's addiction to cocaine is that he used to sprinkle it on his cornflakes in the morning - whether or not this is true is open to debate, although it's certainly questionable that someone that familiar with the substance would waste it so flagrantly. The smooth-voiced androgynous singer certainly had that "heroin chic" look well before Trainspotting came along and influenced a generation of drugged-out models, but cocaine was the drug fuelling his career. By the mid-70s one interviewer said of Bowie, " looked completely disconnected and was hardly able to utter a coherent sentence." Like Mick Jagger, David Bowie somehow managed to ride through the years of substance abuse and come out the other end relatively intact and is still producing today, although most fans agree that the new breed of neoclassicist Bowie doesn't hold a candle to the great work he did in the late 70s.
