There’s more than money moving here…
The police ‘mug shot’ taken of David Bowie on March 25th 1976 that we told you about last week (11.10.2007 NEWS: ROCHESTER PD BOWIE MUG SHOT UP ON EBAY) has fetched an incredible $2,556 in an
The photograph was purchased by a BowieNetter, the very lovely postmodernlover, who I just had a brief transatlantic chat with.
She told me that her high bid was considerably higher than the closing amount, so determined was she to win the item in this true once in a lifetime opportunity. And the life-long fan also wanted to be certain that the photograph went to a good home.
The bidding was no doubt helped by the online publicity the picture received and by the press reports that have appeared. The excellent
In the end, the picture was always going to fetch a high sum, if not only because, as The Guardian puts it, David Bowie “was and always will be the hippest man ever to walk the earth”. And this “immaculate” shot of The Thin White Duke only serves to further illustrate that point.
The previous holder of the coolest mug shot of all time, Frank Sinatra, would no doubt have found it more than a little ironic that the man often mistakenly reported to be lined up to play him in the biopic of his life outcooled even him in the end.