Posted on 11/08/2007 2:27:23 PM PST by RDTF
NOVEMBER 8--Mug shot aficionados are likely aware that TSG has unearthed a host of previously unseen celebrity mug shots, from Tupac Shakur and Andre The Giant to Johnny Cash and 50 Cent. Today we're adding to that list with this marvelous booking photo of David Bowie, which was snapped in Rochester, New York following the singer's March 1976 arrest on a felony pot possession charge. Bowie, 29 at the time, was nabbed along with Iggy Pop and two other codefendants at a Rochester hotel following a Saturday concert. Bowie was held in the Monroe County jail for a few hours before being released.
The Rochester Police Department mug shot was taken three days after Bowie's arrest, when the performer appeared at City Court for arraignment. The photo was provided to TSG by a Rochester man who is seeking to sell the one-of-a-kind image.
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He actually doesn’t look freakish (for once).
Bowie shoulda knowed better. Hang around with Iggy Pop and pretty soon you get a reputation for being a little odd...
What was the movie he did back in the 70’s. Man who fell to earth? Remember it being a bit strange. Guess it fit.
Complexion; Fair
Hair; Blond
Eyes; ....?
I never saw the movie but I loved the book.
pinging a few that might enjoy this one
The man’s got to have his TVC15.
Bowie’s trademark damaged eye beats any scar for “distinguished marking”.
Yep. That or around the recording of “Low”—from a former big Bowie fan...
Aw, dude. Iggy’s my man! I’ve actually been listening to a lot of his music lately and finding sound and film clips of interviews. The guy is very good, but he coulda been a contender if he hadn’t wasted so much time and energy w/drugs. He owes a debt of gratitude to Bowie for whatever he’s been able to salvage of a career.
And for a mug shot, Bowie is still beautful.
Ziggy StarBust.
I just caught this little nugget from his Wikipedia entry - Pop is one of the few famous popular musicians to have published in an established journal of Classical scholarship: his article Caesar Lives in the second Volume of Classics Ireland (1995) considers the applicability of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire to the modern world.
OK, that's pretty cool.
Is his eye damaged? I was under the (mistaken?) impression that he had one blue eye and one brown.
Two.
Lord! I guess none of us escapes the ravages of age; it just takes longer for some than others.
Isn’t he in his 60’s? If so, not really so bad.
I'm not going to pass judgment on Bowie getting busted for pot. I really don't care. But reading this made me curious about something: How do all these 60s and 70s era British rock stars with multiple drug busts under their belts manage to secure visas for American travel, work and often, residency?
I only ask because I recently went through the arduous process of securing a visa for my wife and it was written several times in the paperwork that criminal convictions make it nearly impossible to get a visa.
One of his eyes was damaged and the lens does not dilate at all in response to light. IIRC, he got injured as a child.
I would guess that a significant amount of cash applied to just the right liberal politician and you could get in.... Wait, this isn’t Mexico, is it?
Age happens!!!
This is from Wikipedia. It generally agrees with the stories I read at least 20 years ago:
When Bowie was age fifteen, his friend George Underwood, wearing a ring on his finger, punched him in the left eye during a fight over a girl. Bowie was forced to stay out of school for eight months so that doctors could conduct operations in attempts to repair his potentially-blinded eye.[8][9] Underwood and Bowie remained good friends; Underwood went on to do artwork for Bowie’s earlier albums.[10] Doctors could not fully repair the damage, leaving his pupil permanently dilated. As a result of the injury, Bowie has faulty depth perception. Bowie has stated that although he can see with his injured eye, his colour vision was mostly lost and a brownish tone is constantly present. The colour of the irises is still the same blue, but since the pupil of the injured eye is wide open, the colour of that eye is commonly mistaken to be different.[9]
“When Bowie was age fifteen, his friend George Underwood, wearing a ring on his finger, punched him in the left eye during a fight over a girl.”
They fought over a girl? What was the argument? Underwood wanted to date the girl and Bowie wanted to wear her clothes?
He looks like the little whiny homo on utube who pleads for Brit Spear’s respect. “She’s a HUMAN being!”
That should really be an album cover.
David Bowie, saw him in the Tacoma Dome, first concert there. Serious Moonlight tour, he was fabulous.
Age might affect his looks, but I wonder if his looks are not related to a virus.
I saw Bowie in ‘73 during the Diamond Dogs Tour and in ‘76 during the Station to Station Tour. A couple months ago I found my ticket stub from the ‘76 show... $6.50. I had to laugh. I wonder what I paid in ‘73?? Five bux or less?? Seemed like a lot of cash at the time.
When you went to the 76 show, that night on TV was the “6 million dollar man” on tv.
6 million might buy a bionic finger today..., hardly an entire man anymore.
Today, you couldn’t divorce a guy that had 6 million today, and have much left after lawyer fees!
TVC15...Wild is the Wind...China Girl. Wow!
Thank you...live and learn.
we all lose our charm in the end (both ends).......
He’s 60, and been on heart medication for the last couple years since he basically had a heart attack on stage. Note the puffiness in his face.
Thankfully his voice is not only intact, but better than it’s ever been.
The lens never dilates. His pupil is fixed and dilated, so it doesn't constrict in response to light.
It does, unfortunately.
Bowie ping!
:D
I paid $4.50 to see The Beatles in 1966.
Life on Mars....one of my all time favorite songs.....
Didn’t Bowie write a song about Hillary on the Hunky Dory album, Queen Bitch?
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