On May 30, 1971, David Bowie's wife Angie gave birth to a young baby boy they named Zowie. Bowie was listening to a Neil Young record at home when he heard the news he'd become a father. Zowie's birth gave him the inspiration to write this song to his newborn son in the style of early 1970s Neil Young. "The baby was born and it looked like me and it looked like Angie," Bowie said in a press release. "The song came out like, 'If you're going to stay with us then you are going to grow up bananas.'"
The English band Kooks took their name from this song. They said the song is something they can relate to as they are young and the song was a bit wacky.
Zowie reverted to his birth name, Duncan Jones, around the age of 18 and attended film school in his late twenties. He became a commercials director, directing French Connection's infamous "Kung-fu lesbian advert" in 2006. In 2009 Jones' first full-length movie, a sci-fi thriller called Moon, was released.
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