How Labyrinth led me to David Bowie

Many girls in the 80s discovered Bowie not through music, but as Labyrinth’s beguiling baddie Jareth, playing with gender roles opposite Jennifer Connelly“It’s only forever … not long at all,” sang Jareth, David Bowie’s silver-tongued villain, in the title song of 1986’s beloved puppet-filled adventure, Labyrinth. Like St Vincent, and so many other 80s children, my introduction to Bowie arrived via the screen rather than the family turntable, in the for