Who is the girl in The Jean Genie video?

Cyrinda Foxe
Cyrinda Foxe appears in the music video, and would become a notable figure in the 1970s rock music scene. Foxe had affairs with Bowie and James Williamson of The Stooges while working under Tony Defries as a publicist for MainMan, Bowie’s management company. She later married New York Dolls singer David Johansen.

Is Angie Bowie in The Jean Genie video?

It features concert footage shot at the second of two shows at San Francisco’s Winterland, interspersed with shots of Bowie and then girlfriend Cyrinda Foxe posing around the Mars Hotel, a favourite haunt of beat poet Jack Kerouac.

Is Jean Genie about Jean Genet?

The lyrics were about somebody who “sits like a man but he smiles like a reptile.” The title of the song was an homage to French novelist/dramatist Jean Genet – Bowie has told different stories over the years whether the reference was unconscious or deliberate – while the line “He’s so simple-minded, he can’t drive his …

Who played bass David Bowie Jean Genie?

Trevor Bolder
Sexy girl.” Bowie later in the 1990s described the song as “a smorgasbord of imagined America” and “my first New York song.” The recording took place at New York’s RCA Studios on 6 October 1972. “I had a really great conversation with [bassist] Trevor Bolder,” recalled Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott.

Who is Jean Genie about?

During his now-iconic live album Santa Monica ’72, Bowie makes his first illusions as to who or what the song is about when he told the audience the song was about “a New York lady and a guy who lives in New York and he’s called The Jean Genie.” The lady in question was Cyrinda Foxe, a former Max Kansas City frequented …

What year was Gene Genie?

2008The Jean Genie / Released

When did gene genie come out?

When was Gene genie released?

When did The Jean Genie come out?

What genre is The Jean Genie?

PopThe Jean Genie / Genre