Happy Birthday Mr George Underwood

“I’m stuck with a valuable friend…” GU and DB backstage at
last year’s Hammersmith show. Picture by Total Blam Blam.

On his 56th birthday, told her that he’d found a chum…

Many happy returns of the day to George Underwood on his 56th birthday. Just one month younger than his life-long pal, Glam Rock star David Bowie, George is infamous for being the chap that bopped our David in the eye in a playground battering that changed David’s appearance forever, and gave him his unique trademark.

He’s also well known among Bowie fans for many other contributions, not least of all his work on the sleeves for the original David Bowie album (Space Oddity), Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust and for the creation of the Ziggy cartoons, immortalised forever in his recent Ziggy Collection set of enamel badges.

Happy birthday George, and best wishes from everybody here at BowieNet, fans and staff alike… and even from that geezer who tried it on with your bird all those years ago.