David Bowie almost blinded by lollipop

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Ouch!!

http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2004/06/19/400926.html
http://www.xfm.co.uk/Article.asp?id=28808
David Bowie Blinded By Lollipop


David Bowie was forced to halt a concert in Oslo when a member of the audience hurled a lollipop at him halfway thorough his set. The rouge confectionary reportedly his Bowie directly in the eye, temporarily blinding him.


The gig on Saturday (19 June) was already blighted by extreme storms, with Bowie being forced to wear a bright yellow cagoule onstage.

20 minutes into the gig, a member of the audience threw a lollipop at the singer, which (according to The Sun) hit him directly in the eye. Bowie then “winced in agony as the stick shot between his left eyeball and its lid� halting the gig, before a roadie removed the offending piece of confectionary.

The Sun quotes one fan as saying, "He [Bowie] grabbed a mike and called the person responsible a coward and b*****d for hiding in the crowd. Everyone booed as the concert was stopped."

However a statement on Bowie’s official website claims a different story altogether, saying,

“I'm sure there was no malice intended, but yesterday's incident could have been far more serious than it was. However, in typical Bowie fashion, and despite his understandable initial anger, David made light of the incident when he threw a plectrum into the crowd and then said he would have to go and hide in the band as he thought he may have got somebody in the eye.�
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Mind you thats not as bad as when someone threw a bottle of p!ss at Faith No More, Mike Patton picked it up and drank it :urff: At least the lolly would have tested nicer :innocent:
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Bowie got hit in the eye by a packet of fags in his Tin Machine days
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cant wait for the bootleg
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ryan_w_0000 wrote:cant wait for the bootleg
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i read that story when I was on Mallorca. The story said that he was badly injured. Maybe blind on one eye. I forgot about it until I read it here. So he wasn't badly injured then?
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rian wrote: The story said that he was badly injured. Maybe blind on one eye.
I have always thought he have already been blind on one eye for a long time.
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