Norman_Conquest
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David Bowie: Finding Fame is presently on BBC Four but also available on IPlayer.
Well worth a watch if you like Bowie.
Well worth a watch if you like Bowie.
Saw him on Glass Spider not so good and on Sound and Vision and he was brilliantI enjoyed that and worth a watch if you have time.
I was lucky enough to see Bowie on his Let's Dance tour and thought he was brilliant.
Yeah Glass Spider was a bit of a let down, I saw that at Wembley stadium.Saw him on Glass Spider not so good and on Sound and Vision and he was brilliant
Mick Ronson features in this documentary and his time at Haddon Hall.Wouldn’t be a Bowie thread without mentioning Mick Ronson, so there it is.
Never got to see him live but must know the farewell concert and live at Santa Monica off by heart, David live was a favourite in my youth too (mid 90s).
I enjoyed that and worth a watch if you have time.
I was lucky enough to see Bowie on his Let's Dance tour and thought he was brilliant.
Do you know, I always thought it was called The Let's Dance Tour and have just learned something new.Someone I know was one of the two tour managers on the Serious Moonlight tour. They were on the Australian leg and had a couple of days off…Bowie was organising a band/ crew meal
He said he fancied a Japanese restaurant, everyone agreed. So he got the tour plane to fly to them to Japan for dinner, and back to Oz afterwards. Most expensive dinner ever
Great post and a thumbs up doesn’t do it justice.1973 Middlesbrough Town Hall, 50p a ticket. I was 16. The first Ziggy gigs - absolutely astonishing, and one of the highlights of my life.
I’ve never seen so many jaws drop as when he and the Spiders walked on. He was like nothing I’d EVER seen or experienced before. It’s hard to overstate just how macho Middlesbrough was then, and these guys looked like gay aliens.
And within 5 minutes he had the whole place eating out of his hand. Beautiful (yes), charismatic, confident, charming, really funny, and the music was off the scale brilliant. Best moment was him sitting alone on a stool with an acoustic, singing Jacques Brel’s ‘Port Of Amsterdam’ - you could have heard a pin drop.
The place went nuts.
Up until that night (and growing up in Teesside in the 60’s, it was understandable) the world had seemed monochrome and pretty grim; it suddenly became colourful, sexy and fully expressed. I was never the same again.