What's with the black eye and the bandaged hand?

I guess Iman throws a mean right hook?

...oops, just checked BowieNet...apparently he had the bandage and black eye for his opening number, then it all disappeared for his duet with Arcade Fire later in the show. What a freak.

Anxiety said:

Anxiety said:

Even bandages the man is GOD!

Looks like the goon squad has come to town.

lilgish said:

Bip Bip!

When's this air? What songs did they do again?

GangstaFam said:

i keep hearing buzzings that it's going to air tonight on CBS...though i'm sure a certain Bowie fan site will have a video file of it that we can download this weekend...just a guess.

As for the songs, Bowie started by doing "Life on Mars?" by himself, with the black eye and the bandaged hand...then he came out later, sans shiner and bandage, in a different outfit, with the Arcade Fire, to do "Five Years" and "Wake Up". From the reviews I've read, it was amazing.

Anxiety said:

Sweet!

Anybody get his new songs with BT and Kashmir?

According to Wonderworld, it airs tonight on CBS at 9pm EST.

GangstaFam said:

i'll be off watching a play tonight, but i'll catch it online this weekend.

Anxiety said:

What play?

Anxiety said:

GangstaFam said:

going to see 'wicked' tonight...

oh, and i also read that when bowie came out with the black eye and the bandage, he was wearing that immaculate dark suit in the picture...but the pants only went down to his ankles. he was wearing highwater suit pants!

Anxiety said:

An homage to the hurricane flooding?

He looks like he is falling apart....Did it all catch up to him like really fast? It's just not a good light...or anything!

VinnyM27 said:

He's just like Madonna...the old cats never quit and have the stamina and resistance of an elephant!

Just when you think the man can't get any cooler, he does.
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noepie said:

niceness! only bowie can get away with wearing a vest with an applique.

Anxiety said:

Gwen

i'm wondering if the suit and bruises were an homage to his 'lodger' album cover...?



(note the bandaged hand)

I've always thought David Bowie was incredibly sexy, but I have to say, to some degree I'm not feeling the same way these days.

I recently saw a picture of him in a magazine and was sad to see he'd had his teeth fixed (maybe he did that awhile ago and I've just not been paying attention?) Anyway, those new huge, white, perfectly straight Chiclet teeth don't go with his face/aura/vibe/image/whatever, imo. I prefered him with his old jacked up scraggleteeth..they suited him.

MikeMatronik said:

Damn right!

MrsJimmyFallon said:

Did you hate the tan in the 80's too?

GangstaFam said:

??

I don't know what that means.

And BTW, I don't "hate" his new teeth, I just personally don't think they go with his face and I liked his old teeth better. JMO

MrsJimmyFallon said:

He really changed his look a lot in the 80's too. Got rid of the cool clothes, bleached his hair blonde, got a tan. He looked all yuppie and shit.

GangstaFam said:

Oh, yeah, he did.

I definitely remember the bleached hair - what was that one video from the 80s, gosh I can't remember which one at the moment, but he had on a yellow suit and I swear his hair was about as yellow-blonde as his suit!lol

Even my mom, who is more the C/W type (like my dad) used to comment on David Bowie back in the 80s, about how "good looking" and nicely dressed she thought he was! We still joke around about that to this day. My mom was never really into music much so I don't think she's even aware of what DB looked like back in his more outrageous, glammed up days - she'd probably be shocked!

GangstaFam said:

That's gotta be it! And I thought it was a little self-irony on his part, because it was the first performance since he was ill last year.

This picture has jealousy written all over it in sooo many ways.