David Bowie and Mick Jagger's long-rumoured love affair revealed in new book

In a controversial new biography 'Mick: the Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger', author Christopher Andersen alleges that the two rock stars were once lovers.

Mick Jagger and David Bowie in the video for Dancing in the Streets. Photo: REX

They frolicked in front of the camera for their 1985 remake of Dancing in the Street, but a controversial new unauthorised biography claims that The Rolling Stones's frontman Mick Jagger had a long-term love affair with fellow musician David Bowie in the 1970s.

In his new book, Mick: the Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger, writer Christopher Andersen claims that Angie Bowie, who was married to David at the time, returned to their London home to find the two men asleep together in her bed.

Both men apparently woke up with a start. What was Angie's response?

"Do you want some coffee?" she asked, and returned a few minutes later with coffee and orange juice on a tray.

The escapade is outlined with quotes from friends and family, and according to Andersen: "Ava Cherry, a backup singer who lived with the Bowies for a time, reportedly told a friend that 'Mick and David were really sexually obsessed with each other. Even though I was in bed with them many times, I ended up just watching them have sex'."