Cherry Vanilla

The singer-lyricist poet Cherry Vanilla was best known for being David Bowie's public relations/press officer in the mid-1970s, as part of his MainMan production company under Tony Defries around the time of his "Ziggy Stardust" phase. She is given credit for promoting Bowie's "Diamond Dogs" album with the hype "If you want to know the meaning of this album, just spell DOG - BACKWARDS! Cherry Vanilla had been part of Andy Warhol's entourage, an artist/master of hype who intrigued the former art student Bowie. in the Max's Kansas City glam-rock jet-set. In the late 1970s, the Staten Island, New York-born Vanilla eventually left the U.S. and the Max's Kansas City glam-rock jet-set for the U.K. to further her recording career. She made two albums in Britain, cutting two albums featuring her blunt and typically obscene lyrics. Two of the songs on her first album "Bad Girl", which was released in the UK by RCA, were "I Know How to Hook" and "Foxy Bitch". It also featured "Little Red Rooster", which reportedly she wrote about Bowie as Ziggy Stardust. "Bad Girl" was followed up by "Venus d'Vinyl" (1979), which was also released in the UK by RCA. The two albums were released as a single CD in the United States in 2000.