![]() ![]() Over time, Bowie apparently thanked his friend for his notorious eye injury, telling Underwood that it gave him “ a kind of mystique”. From that day, Bowie’s left pupil remained in a fixed open position. But Bowie’s left eye remained seriously damaged.Īn impulsive punch had accidentally scratched the eyeball, resulting in paralysis of the muscles that contract the iris. Apparently when he was a teenager, he got punched by a friend because he stole a girl. The two performed together in various bands before Underwood turned from music to painting and graphics. Bowie had come to blows with a friend, George Underwood, over a girl they were both hoping to date.īoth were just 15 at the time and their friendship seemingly remained intact. So what happened?Īnecdotally, the cause of Bowie’s anisocoria was attributed to the fallout from a lusty scrap in the spring of 1962. ![]() This can clearly be seen in the Aladdin Sane – Eyes Open photograph by Brian Duffy (shot in 1973 but unpublished until 2011) that was used as the lead image on the posters for the V&A David Bowie is (2013) exhibition. Red eye occurs when light reflects off of the fundus (the back of the eye), through an open pupil, and captures a red coloration by picking up tonality from the blood in the choroid lining of the eyeball. This sometimes adds to the appearance of a different colour when contrasted to his right eye. Having two different eyes were a marker for the chameleon of music.The dilated pupil of his left eye was also potentially more prone to the effect of “red eye”. The expert added that such surgery belongs more to the realm of lifestyle medicine. But the real reason for David Bowies eyes being so striking was anisocoria. Many people believe his eyes were different colours a condition called heterochromia. "That hasn't proved reliable and only leads to complications." One of the most distinctive physical features of the late singer, songwriter and producer David Bowie was his eyes. ![]() "An artificial iris would have been placed in the eye's interior, in front of your own iris, so that the color can then match or so that totally crazy color combinations can be brought about," Kohlhaas says. There was a second, surgical option he could also have considered. They come complete with iris-print coloring and would have made his eyes appear identical. That then occurs surgically, in which case we sew the relevant pupil smaller." David Bowie rewrote the language of pop Image: DWīowie's simplest option would have been to wear colored contact lenses. Trauma to the eye can also result in anisocoria as was the case for Bowie and can cause a more dramatic difference in pupil size, giving the appearance of different-colored eyes. I remember watching one of the last music videos that Bowie did before he died just recently and look into his eyes and thought 'that cant be right, did someone at the production mess up with a Photoshop or edit' One of his pupils were a lot bigger than the other one. We only do that when patients feel they're extremely blinded by the dilated pupil. "You could try to contract the pupil with eye drops," Kohlhaas says, " when the muscles are heavily damaged, that usually doesn't help. As for the muscular damage, it cannot be repaired. The eye with the larger pupil therefore appears darker than the other. "If these two different muscles for expansion and contraction are damaged, then the pupil can get larger and then stay that way," says Markus Kohlhaas at the St.-Johannes-Hospital in Dortmund, Germany. The two guys made up soon after that and collaborated. Muscles govern the size of the eye's pupil: A ring-shaped muscle behind it narrows while a fan-shaped muscle behind the eye broadens the pupil. This resulted in Bowies right eye turning blue while his left one remained a darker share of brown. It was this development which led to his left eye appearing brown and his right gray-green the latter would have been the "original" (undilated) color of that eye.īut could doctors in England, who tried to repair Bowie's eye over four months, have successfully repaired it? His real eyeswhen they finally appearare somehow even creepier, given that he’s. The pupil of that eye remained dilated - the black part was larger – from then on his two eyes were uneven. David Bowie remains an icon not only for his music, but for his striking looks. JanuDavid Bowie still has buttons for eyes in the second nightmare-inducing video from his new album. The reason his eyes bore different colors was due to an event that occurred when he was 14-year-old, when he got into a fight.ĭuring that fight (over a girl), his friend punched him in the left eye. David Bowie's eyes were not, however, two different colors, nor was he born with heterochromia iridum, a condition which causes a disturbance in the iris' natural pigmentation. ![]()
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