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Originally posted by kBizzle
david bowie never lost an eye he has two different colored eyes-
The Clash were more of a Reggae/Punk band
Pre Rancid-
I love the Clash
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Your right KB...I should have said nearly lost eye in bar fight as in
http://www.5years.com/dbia2.htm
"Raised in tough neighbourhoods in the South of London, David Jones was the son of a children's home public relations man. A single punch in a fight nearly cost him his left eye. Surgery left it with some sight but with the pupil paralysed open. Reflection of strong light off the back of the retina makes the eye look orange or gold, like a cat's in a headlight. "It made me quite a pacifist," Bowie says. "I was in bed for such a long time afterwards, with eye operations and all that. Because of a single movement I lost seven or eight months." David dropped out of Bromley Technical High School, went through an unhappy gig as a commercial artist in an ad agency, formed a group called David Jones and the Lower Third and released an album. When David Jones of the Monkees gained prominence, David Jones of Bromley changed his last name to Bowie; he got it from the knife. Intermittently for a few years, Bowie performed with the Lindsay Kemp mime troupe. He says this experience was important in helping to create the highly stylised rock performance he does today. He has put together a rock show in England which incorporates mime players in thick make-up, but left it behind on the American tour because of the expense. Bowie is vague about his age, but it is clear that he is in his mid-20s and that he has been on-stage in one way or another for better than a quarter of his life. He has recorded five albums in all, including The Man Who Sold The World, and two on RCA, Hunky Dory, and The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars."