Jimmy Page and David Bowie

Jimmy accidentally spilled wine on a pillow while Bowie was out of the room. David came into the room, saw the mess, thought this girl spilled it and started yelling at her…. Then, Bowie caught a glimpse of Jimmy grinning, realized Page spilled it and blew up at him for not saying something.. He felt duped… like Page had orchestrated the whole thing. He told Page to leave. After a heated conflict between him and Jimmy in a Manhattan condo, he fled to California because he thought Page had cursed him.

According to David Bowie's wife Angie in her autobiography, her husband's interest in the occult was due to his desire to outdo Jimmy Page. Allegedly, he saw the Led Zeppelin guitarist as a magical rival. Bowie eventually decided, possibly because of Page's interest in him, that Crowley and his works were "small shit." For that reason he began studying Tibetan magic which he claimed was far more powerful than anything the Great Beast or Page had ever done.

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"According to biographer David Buckley, the Los Angeles-based Bowie, fuelled by an "astronomic" cocaine habit and subsisting on a diet of peppers and milk, spent much of 1975–76 "in a state of psychic terror". Stories—mostly from one interview, pieces of which found their way into Playboy and Rolling Stone—circulated of the singer living in a house full of ancient-Egyptian artifacts, burning black candles, seeing bodies fall past his window, having his semen stolen by witches, receiving secret messages from The Rolling Stones, and living in morbid fear of fellow Aleister Crowley aficionado Jimmy Page. Bowie would later say of L.A., "The fucking place should be wiped off the face of the earth".