George Underwood

George Underwood (born 5 February 1947) is a British artist and musician. He is best known for designing album covers for numerous bands in the 1970s and his collaborations with long-term friend, singer-songwriter David Bowie. George Underwood was born on 5 February 1947, in Bromley, Kent. He attended Bromley Technical High School where he developed an interest in music alongside classmates David Bowie and Peter Frampton. Underwood and Bowie's band, George and the Dragons was short-lived due to Underwood punching Bowie in the left eye and accidentally scratching the pupil with his fingernail, during a fight over a girl, leaving Bowie with faulty depth perception and anisocoria (a permanently dilated pupil). The injury did not affect their friendship in the end, and Underwood went on to record one album with Bowie (in their band The King Bees) as well as a solo record under the name Calvin James. After deciding that the music business was not for him, Underwood returned to art studies, joining Beckenham School of Art in 1963 which became Ravensbourne College of Art in 1964. He worked in design studios as an illustrator. Initially, he specialised in fantasy, horror and science fict