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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. The dilated pupil of his left eye was also potentially more prone to the effect of 'red eye'. So Bowie's left eye often appeared to be quite dark, due to the blackness of his dilated pupil, when compared to the blue of his right iris. I’m not exactly proud of it, but no one knew that was going to happen.Anisocoria can create the illusion of having different coloured eyes because the fixed pupil does not respond to changes in light, while the other pupil does Underwood recalled: “Funnily enough he did say I did him a favour, later on. In the early 1970s, he founded the studio Mainartery, who designed the covers for David Bowie’s Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust albums. The cosmetic result of the injury was his dilated pupil… which would only add to the David Bowie myth in future years.īowie and Underwood got over the disagreement and they collaborated in a band called The Konrads in the mid-1960s - but Underwood followed a different career path, becoming a designer and illustrator. This nasty injury resulted in four months of hospital treatment, after which doctors came to the conclusion that young Davey wasn’t going to see completely clearly again, leaving our hero with poor depth perception. Justin de Villeneuve/Hulton Archive/Getty Images I went down to the youth club later and her friends said she’d been waiting the whole hour for me!įurious, Underwood strode up to Bowie and punched him right in the eye: “I just wanted to give him a black eye because of the girl – I didn’t think it was going to be a lasting mark.”Įnglish model Twiggy poses with David Bowie in Paris for the cover of his Pin Ups album, 1973. “Just before I was about to meet her, David phoned me and said she didn’t want to meet me, she wanted to go out with him – which was a lie. Before she left I asked if I could meet her at her youth club on the Wednesday at 7pm.
"One of the reasons I had the party was because both of us fancied this girl. "I had a 15th birthday party,” Underwood told in 2016.
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