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David Bowie's wife, supermodel Iman, lets slip rocker planning to tour for new album 'The Next Day'
'We won’t be on tour with him because (our daughter) is in school,' Iman says after months of speculation.
BY Ethan Sacks
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, March 14, 2013, 10:33 AM
The cat people may be out of the bag.
David Bowie’s wife let slip that the 66-year-old rock legend is planning to hit the road on tour during an interview with an fashion magazine.
“We have a 12-year-old in school, so we are stuck, we can’t travel,” supermodel Iman told Grazia. “ Our schedule is around her, so I don’t know.
“We’ll have to go visit him, but we won’t be on tour with him because she’s in school [in New York.]”
It’s the first major confirmation that Bowie will tour to support his new album, “The Next Day” - the rocker’s first in ten years.
Bowie and his supermodel wife Iman attend a charity event in 2011. Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images
Bowie and his supermodel wife Iman attend a charity event in 2011.
Last month, Bowie’s guitarist, Gerry Leonard speculated to Rolling Stone magazine that the odds were “50-50” that the “Modern Love” singer would go on the road.
“A couple of times, when we played back one of the more kick-ass tunes from the new record, he'd be like, 'This would be great live!' Of course, everyone was like, 'What? Did he just say that?' But other times he'd just roll his eyes if someone brought up playing live.”
But Bowie’s producer dashed fans’ hopes in January, telling NME magazine that, "He’s fairly adamant he’s never gonna perform live again.”
If anyone knows how much time has changed the “Changes” singer’s mind, though, it would likely be his wife of 21 years.
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