Thank you for printing this, great comparison pictures, I get weird looks when I keep saying, “I liked Lady Gaga better when she used to be called Dale Bozzio!” I grew up with Missing Persons and just loved Dale, they also had Terry Bozzio on drums and Warren Cuccurullo on guitar, that band blows away anything Miss Gaga does, though she is pretty talented and has a very prominent posterior!

Missing Persons were SO much better than Lady Gaga, it’s ridiculous to think there could even be a debate. Personally, I think Gaga should change the words to ‘Poker Face’ to be about having sex with her boyfriend:
“When we boff, lights are off
So he can’t see my butter face”

Missing Persons blows Lady GaGa away in so many ways. They were great musicians, GaGa, pretty much all she’s good at is dressing like a tramp, thats about it.. her name should be Lady Gag Gag… Poke Her Face Poke her Face!!!!

@Bo: I love the Gaga – I just observe and report

i agree! DALE BOZZIO ALL THE WAY!

I was friends with Dale for years…and the first thing I thought when I saw Lady G was DALE. Renee`

Yeah, I just watched her on SNL and now with that hair, it’s even more obvious. But Lady Gaga is weird. Dale is cool.

gaga just wants fame. dale was about the music.

Not saying she is not talented in her way, but she is definitely not an original…all I am saying.

i completely agree, she is very very very similar. thought that way back. i am a huge mp fan -its nice to see that dale has influenced so many other musicians, but none do it better than she did back when it was really about taking chances and shocking the hell out the public.

Just watched Missing Persons on the US festival. I just realized the outright theft.

ooo, i thought of this the first time i saw any photage of gaga! Since i like missing persons, and have been fascinated by dale for ages! =p

You know I haven’t actually heard of this bozzio chic or her band, but then again i wasn’t born until 1983, and GaGa wasn’t born until 1986 so in my opinion it is pretty original and fashion forward of her to take her style Cues from someone who was only famous before you were even born.
And I don’t think that she ever actually claimed to be a one of a kind or that her style was uniquely hers. I think that came from everyone else saying that ABOUT her. Kudos to both of these ladies for being daring in fashion however similar their crazy styles may be.

I’m sure Gaga has heard of the Missing Persons years before she did ‘her’ look. Like others Ashlee Simpson in that one video is so like Dale rip-off. I like most of all these newer girl-pop singers but some may not admit they ‘borrowed’ from Dale Bozzio..but with Lady Gaga, it’s totally obvious she did and in my opinion, blantently so. As for others it’s Dale’s “sqeek” vocal style. Like Ke$ha. Out of latest batch of new-girl synth pop I like Ke$ha alot, yeah I know the lyrics are silly as hell but she seems fun. As someone pointed out – Gaga=weird / Dale Bozzio=COOL! But If -ONLY- Dale got herself back on track and Missing Persons were able to get a real good running reunion, you know she’d blow them all by the wayside..For sure!

When Lady Gaga started becoming popular it took me & my family a while to figure out that it wasn’t actually Dale in disguise.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say that Dale is still cool… after all, the woman has left dozens of cats to die of starvation from New England to California, while claiming to be an animal lover. And she has had her sons living in the rented homes loaded with feces with her.
For this simple fact alone, I believe that Lady Gaga is much better than Dale Bozzio!