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Source: Webster's dictionaryAfter the breakup with Farthingale, Bowie moved in with Mary Finnigan as her lodger. Source: Internet
Continuing the divergence from rock and roll and blues begun by his work with Farthingale, Bowie joined forces with Finnigan, Christina Ostrom and Barrie Jackson to run a folk club on Sunday nights at the Three Tuns pub in Beckenham High Street. Source: Internet
Buckley (2005): pp. 49–52 Bowie and Farthingale broke up in early 1969 when she went to Norway to take part in a film, Song of Norway ; citation this affected him, and several songs, such as " Letter to Hermione " and " Life on Mars? Source: Internet