The Real Reason Why David Bowie Started Wearing An Eyepatch

May 2024 ยท 1 minute read

In 1973, David Bowie had been working on songs for a theatrical production of "1984," but the author's widow, Sonia Orwell, had refused to give Bowie the rights, according to the book "David Bowie: The Complete Guide" and The Guardian. With no other outlet for the work he'd begun on the 1984-themed songs, they found an outlet, along with ideas incorporated from William Burroughs and "A Clockwork Orange," in what became the concept album "Diamond Dogs." "They were both powerful pieces of work, especially the marauding boy gangs of Burroughs' Wild Boys with their Bowie knives," Bowie later recounted, per The Guardian.

What came out of all of this was the world of "Diamond Dogs" where Halloween Jack leads a youth gang, the Diamond Dogs, in a post-apocalyptic place called Hunger City, per Nicholas Pegg's "The Complete David Bowie." The costume that defined Bowie's alter ego Halloween Jack played up the piratical aspect of the character.

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