David Bowie: creative chameleon, trailblazing style icon, rock star of almost messianic charisma. But what does he mean to Amy Lennox? “He’s the Goblin King!” she cries. “From Labyrinth!” Well, at least she didn’t say the Laughing Gnome.
Lennox is starring in Lazarus, the musical Bowie created in his final months, and which opened in New York just weeks before his death from liver cancer last January. She’s a fiercely talented, fast-rising actress who plainly has her feet planted firmly on the ground. That she should associate Bowie most strongly with the fright-wigged villain of the 1986 Jim Henson fantasy flick is partly generational. She was born in Aberdeen in 1985, and admits that the Seventies, when Bowie’s alter egos Aladdin Sane and Ziggy Stardust…