David Bowie: Mug Shot Oddity - Unseen image from rock star's 1976 Rochester pot bust surfaces

The Smoking Gun ^ | Nov 8, 2007 | not specified

[RDTF]

[Pyro7480]

He actually doesn’t look freakish (for once).

[Billthedrill]

Bowie shoulda knowed better. Hang around with Iggy Pop and pretty soon you get a reputation for being a little odd...

[CTSeditor]

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.

[Roccus]

Always wondered what his drivers license said,

Complexion; Fair
Hair; Blond
Eyes; ....?

[cripplecreek]

I never saw the movie but I loved the book.

[RDTF]

pinging a few that might enjoy this one

[skeeter]

The man’s got to have his TVC15.

[Lancey Howard]

Bowie’s trademark damaged eye beats any scar for “distinguished marking”.

[eureka!]

Yep. That or around the recording of “Low”—from a former big Bowie fan...

[radiohead]

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.

[martin_fierro]

Ziggy StarBust.

[Billthedrill]

Gotta agree. Iggy and heroin were good friends for far too long. Bowie was one of his few visitors in the mental hospital he'd checked himself into to get straight.

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.

[Roccus]

Is his eye damaged? I was under the (mistaken?) impression that he had one blue eye and one brown.

[Doomonyou]

Eyes; ....?

Two.

[trisham]

Bowie in '06.

[radiohead]

Lord! I guess none of us escapes the ravages of age; it just takes longer for some than others.

[trisham]

Isn’t he in his 60’s? If so, not really so bad.

[Drew68]

the singer's March 1976 arrest on a felony pot possession charge.

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.

[Lancey Howard]

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.