Leave it to the ageless David Bowie to look stunning in a mug shot. The Smoking Gun dug up a picture of Ziggy taken in March 1976 after a show in Rochester, New York. The crime? Felony possession of herbal jazz (right, pot). Via The Smoking Gun:
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.
Also, technically, TSG didn’t dig it up: Some guy in Rochester passed it along in the hopes of selling it and making a few bucks (you can get his email address over the TSG site). Maybe Pete Wentz should buy it for his bar? Imprisoned Bowie, along with another, more colorful “Looking For Water”-style Bowie pic, after the jump.
[Via The Smoking Gun]
So composed, so suave, like everything’s all hunky dory. That one’s pretty self-explanatory, but what to make of this thing?
[Via PSNYC
Indeed, it’s Bowie’s Spongebob Squarepants character, Lord Royal Highness. As you might’ve suspected by the huge banner over his head, Highness appears in Atlantis SquarePantis, which airs on Nickelodeon 11/12. One for the young Americans… and Europeans and Asians, etc.
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The blue and green eyes are a nice touch on that thing.
that’s pretty cool, but there is a bar here in Rochester with an even better photo from the night of the arrest – it’s a picture taken in the hotel room with Iggy, Bowie, the other defendants and the plainclothes officers involved in the arrest. i guess the cops who made the bust wanted a little more of a momento from the evening than just a police report and some mug shots.
mugshot? that looks a like photoshoot… hawt @_o
Dan b… Do you recall the name of that bar?
DM – yes, Jack Lavere’s on Park. the photo is high on the wall just above the last seat at their tiny little bar.
what.
I love that the dude’s email is hessexpress2@hotmail…
I can just imagine some poor schlub behind the counter at the Hess Express (think Sheetz, Diamond Shamrock, etc.) eagerly waiting for his David Bowie haul to lift him out of his gas-pumpin’ lifestyle.
Bloody fucking hell, he isn’t human. I would hit that so hard.
Okay, he’s given up the ‘email me’ thing and just put it on ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/David-Bowie-Mugshot-Original-Authentic-Picture-76-Bust_W0QQitemZ120181722946QQihZ002QQcategoryZ14892QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
anyone with cash to burn?
Okay, he’s given up the ‘email me’ thing and just put it on ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/David-Bowie-Mugshot-Original-Authentic-Picture-76-Bust_W0QQitemZ120181722946QQihZ002QQcategoryZ14892QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
anyone with cash to burn?
great picture. I have the same photo. I have had mine since his arrest. Mine is in much better condition . its not a copy and is one of the original police photo’s.