A controversial new biography titled `Mick: The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger` by Christopher Andersen, claims that the two rockers enjoyed an illicit affair 40 years ago.

The novel reads: "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`."

After meeting in 1973, Mick went backstage at one of David`s concerts, and things soon turned physical according to the story.

Christopher claims that the fling started to wind down when David`s ex-wife Angie Bowie, who was married to David at the time, returned home to find the two men asleep together in her bed.

An excerpt states: "By October 1973, the Bowies were living on Oakley Street, just a stroll from Cheyne Walk. Angie had been out of town for a few days when she returned home one morning and went straight to the kitchen to make some tea.

"The Bowies` maid, who had arrived about an hour earlier, approached the lady of the house with a peculiar look on her face. `Someone,` she told Angie, `is in your bed`."

It continues: "Angie went upstairs to her bedroom, slowly pushed the door open, and there they were: Mick Jagger and David Bowie, naked in bed together, sleeping. Both men woke up with a start.
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