![]() ![]() Bowie, it seems, was in the throes of teenage love, and his best friend in school, Underwood, not only was crushing hard on a girl but found out Bowie was similarly enamored with the same girl, too, when the singer began “boasting to my mate about what a Casanova I was,” he told biographer Mark Spitz in an interview. In the spring of 1962, Bowie got into a fight with his school pal - and, later, lifetime artistic partner - George Underwood. His eyes were the product not of genes but a teenage fistfight that resulted in anisocoria, a condition in which a person’s eyes have different-size pupils. Heterochromia can be expressed as two outright different colors, like actress Kate Bosworth’s hazel right eye and blue left eye, or a variegation of an iris color, like Mila Kunis’s, which are a lighter brown in one eye and a darker tinge in the other.īut Bowie’s case was different. It’s hereditary and usually harmless, and the condition is in fact much more common in dogs, cats, and horses. What gave Bowie’s eyes their hypnotic dual colors? As Kevin Hunt reports for the Conversation, some people mistakenly assume it was caused by heterochromia, a condition in which a person has two different iris colors. Part of his stage persona revolved not just around his vivid makeup and incredible gift for music, but also for his magnetic, almost eerie pair of eyes: one clear blue, the other a moody black. After David Bowie’s death on Sunday from cancer, this week we’re remembering a genius musician with a gift for showmanship.
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