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homebrewPosted at 2026-03-20 15:49:16(3 wks ago) (Bowie General / Bowie and Rocky Horror)


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My two passions are David Bowie and The Rocky Horror Show. Moreso the live stage musical than the movie but both have a place in my heart.

There are definite connections between Rocky and Bowie. Some true and some are myths like the story of Mick Jagger and David Bowie both wanting to play Frank 'N Furter. Not true. I also remember it being floated around in the same Usenet groups that spawned the Bowie IMAGES articles that David was the voice of Rocky. While it is true that the actor who played Rocky, Peter Hinwood, couldn't carry a tune in a paper bag so his vocals were dubbed in by a man called Trevor White. Not Bowie.

Then there are questionable accounts that link Bowie to Rocky like this one... The story goes that David and Angie attended a screening of the show and when they get to the part where Riff Raff is about to kill Frank 'N Furter Angela shouts out 'No! No! Don't do it!'. This implies that Angie was the first person to shout back at the screen. I highly doubt this is true since the man who shouted the first line is well documented and corroborated by many sources who were there. This story however was told by non other than Tim Curry himself in a 2005 NPR interview.

This connection however is very true. The makeup artist who did the faces of Bowie and Twiggy for the cover of Pinups is the same guy that designed the makeup for the "floor show" in the Rocky Horror Show and subsequent movie. Pull up that image and it is very clear.

Please forgive me if I have posted something similar here before because I get a strong sense of Deja-vu as I type this but then there is something I just recently stumbled on to... a photo from a production of The Rocky Horror Show in 1976. You will notice the setting is nothing like the castle used in the movie. The stage setting was that of a cinema about to be torn down so there is scaffolding and blue tarps that say Acme Construction Co. And instead of a walk-in cooler, Eddie was stored in a Coca Cola chest cooler. Anyway, the actress in this production who is called Joan Millar  played the character Columbia and being a Bowie fan herself designed and wore what she called her "Ziggy costume".

Link to picture: https://tinyurl.com/2mxy25jb

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""I don't begrudge any artist for finding an audience"
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interplayDonatedPosted at 2026-03-21 15:07:10(3 wks ago) (Bowie General / Bowie and Rocky Horror)


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Nice find.
I can't even remember how many times I attended this move for midnight showings BEFORE fans started acting it out on stage in front of the screen.

Good to have a hobby!

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homebrewPosted at 2026-03-21 15:47:14(3 wks ago) (Bowie General / Bowie and Rocky Horror)


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Some more info on the Mick Jagger connection. Neither Richard O'Brien or the movies producer, Lou Adler will come right out and say yes this is true... they have indicated that it may have been said in passing or that yes, he did make an offer but was only joking; and it goes that Jagger offered to buy the film rights to the show.

So far, the articles I have come across say things like "Jagger let it be known..." or Mick Jagger "expressed interest..." Not that he made any formal or concrete offerings.

Another states that Jagger's "people" reached out with this response:

"The Stones singer was evidently enamored with the show, and his people made inquiries about buying the film rights. Jim Sharman didn't need Jagger's clout to make a movie version, however. Gordon Stulburg of 20th Century Fox also saw the show and offered him $1 million to adapt it for the screen, which meant Sharman could keep Curry in the lead role and also direct the picture himself."

So it appears if any kind of overtures were made that they were quickly rejected.



As for Jagger, Bowie or Lou Reed playing Frank 'N Furter, Lou Adler said this:

“Oh, I don’t know,” Adler replied. “I don’t know if he ever seriously would have played it. I’d like to see him do the narrator role in [the remake], though. That would be good."

And in another interview makes this statement:

“The casting for the Roxy, we had some very, very talented people, most of who were local actors. I thought pretty much I couldn’t duplicate Tim Curry. That was somebody we had to bring over, and that went for Richard also. But not only the fact that you’re getting the actor that was in it, you’re getting the creator.”


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