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CRACKED ACTOR

Filmed 1974 for Omnibus

Broadcast 26 January 1975 [BBC2 TV UK]

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DICK CAVETT SHOW

Recorded in New York

Broadcast 4 December 1974 - [NBC TV US]

Interviewed and performs 1984/Young Americans/Footstompin'

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1975 GRAMMY AWARDS

Recorded at Uris Theatre, New York

1 March 1975

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SOUL TRAIN

Recorded 4 November 1975 [ABC US]

Mimes to Fame and Golden Years and answers questions from the presenter and the audience.

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CHER SHOW

Recorded 23 November 1975 [CBS US]

Performs Fame, Can You Hear Me and a medley sarting and ending with Young Americans [with Cher].

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RUSSELL HARTY PLUS

Recorded 28 November 1975 [ITV UK]

Interview with Russell Harty via satellite. 28 mins.

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DINAH!

Recorded 3 January 1976 [CBS US]

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DINAH!

Recorded 15 April 1977 [CBS US]

Performs Funtime and Sister Midnight with Iggy Pop

 

TFI Actualities

Recorded in Paris June 27 1977

Interviewed by Yves Marousi

 

Midi Premiere

Recorded in Paris June 27 1977

Interviewed by Danielle Gilbert

MARC

Recorded Manchester 9 September 1977

Broadcast 28 September 1977 [Granada UK]

Live version of Heroes and a jam called Standing Next To You.

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Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas

Recorded Manchester 11 September 1977

Broadcast 24 December 1977 [ITV UK]

Performs Heroes with mime, and Peace On Earth/The Little Drummer Boy, a duet with Bing, who said of Bowie: "He sings a lovely counterpoint".

 

L’altra Domenica ("A Different Sunday")

Recorded in Rome 1 October 1977

 

Odeon

Recorded in Rome 1 October 1977

Interview, a performance of Heroes and Bowie playing piano for a version of Sense of Doubt.

 

Pop Shop

Recorded in Amsterdam October 1977

Broadcast 6 November 1977 [Dutch TV]

Interview with Vic Dennis

VD: Is the fact that you have moved to Berlin connected with politics?

DB: Some newspapers asserted that it could have been in relation to politics but it’s absolutely wrong. I am apolitical and I think a real artist is apolitical, because an artist is a dreamer ....

TopPop

Recorded in Netherlands 14 October 1977

Performs Heroes and is presented with a gold record

Top Of The Pops

Recorded in London 19 October 1977

Performs Heroes with Tony Visconti on bass

90 Minutes Live, This Hour Has 5 Decades

Broadcast 25 November [CBC Canada]

Interview. Bowie discusses his confused personality and the complexities of Ziggy. He also speaks about Berlin allowing him a simple life, and holidaying with his son in Kenya. (Duration 7:25)

David Bowie On Stage

Recorded live at Dallas Convention Centre 10 April 1978

Broadcast US TV

Includes: What In The World / Blackout / Sense Of Doubt / Speed Of Life / Hang On To Yourself / Ziggy Stardust (21min)

 

Midnight Special

Recorded in New York April 1978

Interview with Flo and Eddie. Bowie, dressed in a kimono, talked about Aladdin Sane and the re-creation of Ziggy Stardust for the 1978 tour.

Arena Rock

Recorded 16 May 1978

Interviewed in Berlin by Alan Yentob [BBC 2 UK]

Excerpt on Sound And Vision DVD (2003)

Musikladen Extra

Recorded live in Bremen TV studio 21 May 1978

Broadcast 4 August 1978 without encore (45 mins)

Sense of Doubt / Beauty and the Beast / Heroes / Stay / The Jean Genie / TVC15 / Alabama Song / Rebel Rebel / What In The World (encore)

Northern Lights

Recorded in Newcastle 16 June 1978 [Tyne Tees UK]

Interview

 

Reporting Scotland

Recorded in Glasgow 21 May

Interview and footage of Hang Onto Yourself from Glasgow concert

London Weekend Show

Recorded 30 June, 1 July 1978

Broadcast 8 July 1978 [ITV UK]

Clips from the July 1 Earls Court show (Star, Heroes, Hang Onto Yourself), interview with fans, and a 30 June pre-concert interview with Bowie by Janet Street-Porter (40 mins)

 

Countdown

Recorded in Melbourne, Australia November 1978 - ABC TV [Australia]

Interviewed by Ian Meldrum

A Current Affair

Recorded in Sydney, Australia

Broadcast 28 November 1978

Interviewed by Mike Willesee

 

Star Sen Ichi Ya

Recorded in Tokyo 6 December 1978

Interview on Japanese TV

Young Music Show

Recorded at NHK Hall, Tokyo 12 December 1978

Warszawa, Heroes, Fame, Beauty and the Beast, Five Years, Soul Love, Star, Hang Onto Yourself, Ziggy Stardust, Suffragette City, Station To Station, TVC15

 

AFTERNOON PLUS

interviewed by Mavis Nicholson [ITV UK]

Recorded in London 12 February 1979

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THAMES AT SIX

Interview with Rita Carter

Recorded in London 12 February 1979

 

TONIGHT

Interview with Valerie Singleton [BBC 1 UK]

Recorded in London 12 February 1979

The Kenny Everett Video Show

Recorded in London 23 April 1979 [ITV UK]

Bowie performs Boys Keep Swinging. At the end of the song Kenny Everett as one of his characters, Angry of Mayfair, chases Bowie around the rooftop set shouting, ‘I fought for men like you in the war - and I never got one!’

Dick Clark’s Salute to the Seventies

Recorded September 1979

Broadcast 31 December 1979

Films a mimed version of Space Oddity (1969 version). Bowie was dressed as on the poster issued with The Alabama Song.

Kenny Everett’s New Year’s Eve show

Recorded in London 18 September 1979

Broadcast 31 December 1979

featuring Bowie’s new acoustic version of Space Oddity

Countdown

Recorded in London 1 December 1979

Broadcast 31 December 1979 [ABC TV Australia]

Interviewed for End Of The Decade special

Saturday Night Live

Recorded 15 December. Broadcast 5 January 1980

Bowie performs three songs: The Man Who Sold the World / TVC 15 / Boys Keep Swinging. Features Bowie’s specially prepared group, Blondie’s Jimmy Destri and German singer/ performer, Klaus Nomi.

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The 20-20 Show

Filmed February 1980

A US news magazine program, film a short special about Bowie and include footage of Scary Monsters recording sessions. The show was broadcast on US TV in 1981.

Crystal Jun Rock

Television commercials filmed March 1980

Bowie went to Japan to make two television commercials for Crystal Jun Rock, a Saki drink exclusive to Japan. Filming for two weeks in a temple in Kyoto. The only lines Bowie utters are, ‘Crystal Jun Rock in Japan’.

 

Good Morning America

Broadcast live 3 September 1980 [ABC TV]

Interview with Bowie, discussing the play and the new LP, Scary Monsters.

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The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson

Broadcast 5 September 1980 [NBC]

Bowie performs Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes. Interviewed pre-show by Robert Hilburn.

During the show, the fans cheered so loudly at every mention of Bowie’s name that Carson finally gulped: "After all this, he’d better be good."

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Friday Night - Saturday Morning

Broadcast 10 October 1980 [BBC2]

An interview with Bowie recorded in New York’s Plaza Hotel by Tim Rice. It included extracts from the Elephant Man play onstage at the Booth Theatre.

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Countdown

Filmed 23 October 1980 [ABC TV Australia]

Interviewed in a New York Japanese restaurant by Ian Meldrum for Australian TV

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Musikzene

Broadcast 7 December 1980 [RB Germany]

Includes a feature on Bowie in The Elephant Man

 
 

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