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David Bowie: Mug Shot Oddity - Unseen image from rock star's 1976 Rochester pot bust surfaces
The Smoking Gun ^ | Nov 8, 2007 | not specified

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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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: bowie; classicrock; davidbowie; iggypop; mugshot; rock; thethinwhiteprince
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To: Drew68

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?


21 posted on 11/08/2007 5:00:49 PM PST by whipitgood (Let's burn some MEXICAN flags!)
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To: trisham

Age happens!!!


22 posted on 11/08/2007 5:04:15 PM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: Roccus

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]


23 posted on 11/08/2007 5:06:29 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: CTSeditor
What was the movie he did back in the 70’s. Man who fell to earth?

I do seem to remember that one...even though I didn't see the film.

But I did like Bowie in "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence",
in which he was the central character in a WWII Pacific Theater
POW camp (run by the Japanese).
Not the best film made, but Bowie did well in it.
24 posted on 11/08/2007 5:22:20 PM PST by VOA
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To: Lancey Howard

“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?


25 posted on 11/08/2007 5:30:34 PM PST by gate2wire
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To: VOA
I loved him in "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence." He also did a vampire flick, something about vampires sleeping in coffins in a NYC brownstone. His most famous role was in "Labyrinth" with the young Jennifer Connolly.
26 posted on 11/08/2007 5:32:47 PM PST by Ciexyz
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To: RDTF

He looks like the little whiny homo on utube who pleads for Brit Spear’s respect. “She’s a HUMAN being!”


27 posted on 11/08/2007 6:00:38 PM PST by toddlintown (Five bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: martin_fierro

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.


28 posted on 11/08/2007 6:04:29 PM PST by Professional
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To: RDTF
Here's the other great one from that era — Annie Lennox:


29 posted on 11/08/2007 6:20:20 PM PST by Albion Wilde (America: “the most benign hegemon in history.”—Mark Steyn)
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To: Professional

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.


30 posted on 11/08/2007 6:21:02 PM PST by Lawgvr1955 (You can never have too much cowbell !!)
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To: Lawgvr1955

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!


31 posted on 11/08/2007 6:38:57 PM PST by Professional
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To: Pyro7480
I'll always remember that executive F. Scott Fitzgerald look. Rich Man-Poor Man was on television.

TVC15...Wild is the Wind...China Girl. Wow!

32 posted on 11/08/2007 6:50:49 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: Lancey Howard

Thank you...live and learn.


33 posted on 11/08/2007 7:53:28 PM PST by Roccus (Hillary........brought to you by the PRC)
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To: KosmicKitty

we all lose our charm in the end (both ends).......


34 posted on 11/08/2007 8:01:40 PM PST by JUMPIN JEHOSPOHAT ("I am not young enough to know everything" - Oscar Wilde / "It;s the same when yer too old!" - JJ)
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To: Professional

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.


35 posted on 11/09/2007 4:36:08 AM PST by whatexit
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To: Lancey Howard
the lens does not dilate at all in response to light.

The lens never dilates. His pupil is fixed and dilated, so it doesn't constrict in response to light.

36 posted on 11/09/2007 4:40:56 AM PST by CholeraJoe (Be unique. It makes it easier for the rest of us to identify the morons.)
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To: KosmicKitty

It does, unfortunately.


37 posted on 11/09/2007 5:03:27 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: whatexit
I had no idea. Poor man. That must have been frightening.
38 posted on 11/09/2007 5:05:06 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: LongElegantLegs

Bowie ping!


39 posted on 11/09/2007 6:33:24 AM PST by Vor Lady (Objects in vehicle are better armed than they appear...)
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To: Ciexyz

The vampire flick was called “The Hunger”. Another weird one.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085701/


40 posted on 11/09/2007 7:05:45 AM PST by JZelle
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