RCA records paid $25,000 to fly the “cream” of America’s rock press over to see the label’s up-and-coming star David Bowie perform at the Friars Club, Market Square, Aylesbury, England, in July 1972. The record company hoped the scribes from Rolling Stone, CREEM, New York Times, Andy Warhol’s Interview, and the New Yorker, would be sufficiently impressed to spread the word about Bowie back home. It certainly worked as Bowie, along with his Ziggy line-up of Mick Ronson (guitar), Trevor Bolder…

“David Bowie, Los Angeles, 1976 by Neil Zlozower.”

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Pharrell recently wore eyeliner while performing at a concert in Paris, but he certainly isn't the first famous dude to add a dash of black paint to his eyes. From David Bowie's colorful makeup as Ziggy Stardust to The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers' eye-defining onstage look, we celebrate the guys who aren't afraid to accentuate their peepers with a touch of eyeliner

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Gimp art by PYPERSANE. David Bowie's Starman reimagined as Starboy.