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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: CholeraJoe
Picky, picky, picky....
Hey, I never said I was an optimist or anything.

:D

41 posted on 11/09/2007 8:12:53 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: RDTF
Taken two weeks ago. Gwen Stephanie with David Bowie and Iman.
42 posted on 11/09/2007 9:18:16 AM PST by sazerac
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To: Lawgvr1955
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.

I paid $4.50 to see The Beatles in 1966.

43 posted on 11/09/2007 10:10:31 AM PST by Inyo-Mono (If you don't want people to get your goat, don't tell them where it's tied.)
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To: All

Life on Mars....one of my all time favorite songs.....


44 posted on 11/09/2007 4:00:42 PM PST by Maverick68 (w)
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To: Maverick68

Didn’t Bowie write a song about Hillary on the Hunky Dory album, Queen Bitch?


45 posted on 11/09/2007 7:46:48 PM PST by Lawgvr1955 (You can never have too much cowbell !!)
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To: Lancey Howard

Yeah I read that on wikipedia too. There’s another website that says it was the guy’s fingernail that was lodged into David Bowie’s eye that made it impossible to dilate. He’s still got beautiful eyes to me! First thing that attracted me to him in the first place.


46 posted on 12/14/2011 11:56:37 AM PST by DavidBowieForever
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To: Lancey Howard

David Bowie’s eyes are unique, not damaged. He looks good no matter what. I personally love his eyes.


47 posted on 12/14/2011 11:57:25 AM PST by DavidBowieForever
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To: DavidBowieForever

This thread is from 2007.... Just sayin’.


48 posted on 12/14/2011 11:59:12 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: gate2wire
They fought over a girl? What was the argument? Underwood wanted to date the girl and Bowie wanted to wear her clothes?

That's pretty funny! However, David Bowie has always been a ladies man and had women chasing him since he was a kid.

From what I've read, he would bed men if they had the ability to help him professionally but always favored the women. Apparently the music scene in England was full of homosexuals in the 1960s and if you were going to make it as an act, you pretty much had to play along. Even the manager of The Beatles (Brian Epstein) was a notorious homosexual and it's rumored that he and John Lennon had more than just a business relationship.

Not saying that's a good thing.

49 posted on 07/11/2015 12:41:21 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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