An alien pronunciation of Bowie’s surname

SIR – As someone whose teens coincided with the rise of the Starman to stardom (“Bowie archive of 80,000 treasures given to V&A”, report, February 23), and in common with all my school contemporaries, I have always pronounced the first syllable of David Bowie’s surname to rhyme with cow rather than low.i still scream a correction at the TV and radio whenever the now ubiquitous and “incorrect” version is used. The most recent round of publicity has left me hoarse.

The Man Who Fell to Earth David Bowie as Thomas Jerome Newton in the 1976 film