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Post by Uncle Arthur on Nov 8, 2005 17:52:40 GMT
>Does anyone know what this clip I've seen used >several times on TV on black and white film about >1967 featuring Bowie.
>He's dressed in a beau brummel white shirt and tight >pantaloons similar to the Bee Gees dress in the TV film >special 'Cucumber castle'. In it Bowie walks across I >think to a mirror, looking disturbed. Black and white, >his hair do is a basin style cut. May've been set on a >staircase. I think it may've been something to do >either with artist Kenneth Anger or Manager Kenneth >Pitt again?
This sounds like "The Image," a rather disturbing short from '67 (?), which turned up on one of the 1980s NME video compilations. More info's probably included in Pitt's eminently readable "Pitt Report"
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Post by Wright Blan on Nov 8, 2005 20:16:46 GMT
Nice list. But it forgot Bowie's late 1979 "Saturday Night Live" appearance. Can't remember exactly when it was, but it happened between the start of the Hostage Crisis in Iran, and Christmas. Oh, and Howard Hessman (WKRP) was the guest host .
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Post by John Stewart Miller on Nov 9, 2005 21:39:53 GMT
>Does anyone know what this clip I've seen used >several times on TV on black and white film about >1967 featuring Bowie. >He's dressed in a beau brummel white shirt and tight >pantaloons similar to the Bee Gees dress in the TV film >special 'Cucumber castle'. In it Bowie walks across I >think to a mirror, looking disturbed. Black and white, >his hair do is a basin style cut. May've been set on a >staircase. I think it may've been something to do >either with artist Kenneth Anger or Manager Kenneth >Pitt again? This sounds like "The Image," a rather disturbing short from '67 (?), which turned up on one of the 1980s NME video compilations. More info's probably included in Pitt's eminently readable "Pitt Report" Thanks Arthur - sounds like the piece I meant. I didn't have any info so this was a great help.
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Post by Uncle Arthur on Nov 10, 2005 11:50:33 GMT
Pleasure to help, John. Just scouted the ever-in-depth-reliable-and-user-friendly-honest IMDB, and the director was Michael Armstrong, a man not unfamilar with disturbing visuals ("Mark Of The Devil," "The Black Panther," episodes of "Triangle"). Surprised this one hasn't surfaced on the various Bowie visuals boots knocking around.
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Post by Barry Hodge on Nov 18, 2005 13:49:14 GMT
My twopenneth: Once saw an 'alternative' promo for Jean Genie at 4am one morning on VH-1 Classic (a seperate channel back in 2000/1, IIRC), which was in very rough shape but included an advert or something at the end: definitely some sort of ad for album, a tour (did they do this?), or perhaps the single itself (?!). Hard to read (and too quick to record), but it was definitely different to the usual one... Any ideas what this title card was...?
Also, has the 'original' version of the Life On Mars? promo been reshown, ie with the cuts to the 'audience'...?
And also, Pop Quiz did show the usual TOTP Starman clip at one point, over the end credits (though I do hope they showed Jean Genie too). Unknown date as the tape went to Australia at the time, then was passed onto me a few years ago... Several other early 80s bits were included - the Luv ad shown on some BBC prog that wasn't titled, etc...
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Post by Barry Hodge on Nov 18, 2005 13:53:34 GMT
>More info's probably included in Pitt's eminently readable "Pitt Report" Remember lending this to Ralph Horton (the ex-manager) who went through with fine toothcomb, finished it in a day, and complained bitterly all evening: "and he still owes me £200" etc. Said he still holds the negatives for half the photos used in it too... Very untrustworthy fellow tho (on personal experience, anyway!!!)
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Post by John Stewart Miller on Jan 23, 2006 1:57:08 GMT
Just to add, two appearences for 'Lisa Jane'. One was on 'Beat room' (BBC 1964), the other I think 'Ready steady go'. Was this 'the mannish boys' ?
Presumably also, for Bowie fans there should be the representative clip for 'sorrow' on TOTP, as the Dick Cavett / nineteen eighty floor show - (?) available, U.S. TV. clip was used.
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Post by Brian McNeil on Feb 1, 2006 20:08:33 GMT
If my memory is correct, Bowie performed 'Starman' on Lift-Off before his widely seen July 1972 TOTP performance.
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Post by Dinsdale on Feb 12, 2006 17:58:30 GMT
Any update on finding the totp performance of "The Jean Genie" from 4-1-73 edition?
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Post by Keith Brockway on Feb 13, 2006 12:11:01 GMT
I still don`t know of it turning up anywhere Dinsdale.
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