CRACKED ACTOR

BBC2 TV Omnibus UK
26 January 1975

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DICK CAVETT SHOW

NBC TV US New York
4 December 1974

Interviewed and performs 1984/Young Americans/Footstompin'

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1975 GRAMMY AWARDS

Uris Theatre, New York
1 March 1975

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SOUL TRAIN

ABC US
4 November 1975

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CHER SHOW

CBS US
23 November 1975

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DINAH!

CBS US
3 January 1976

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DINAH!

CBS US
15 April 1977

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)

Live version of Heroes and a jam between Bowie and Bolan, a song written just before the recording called Standing Next To You. > more

Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas

Recorded Manchester (ITV)

11 September 1977

Broadcast 24 December 1977

Performs Heroes with mime, and Peace On Earth/The Little Drummer Boy, a duet with Bing.

L’altra Domenica ("A Different Sunday")

Recorded in Rome

1 October 1977

Odeon

Recorded in Rome

1 October 1977

General conversation, 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

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 Dallas Convention Centre

10 April 1978

Broadcast US TV

Show filmed as an early document of the tour.

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)

>> Available: excerpt in Sound And Vision DVD (2003)

Musikladen Extra

Recorded in Bremen 21 May 1978

Broadcast 4 August 1978 without encore (45minutes)

Bowie and group record appearance of the typical 1978 tour set at the television studio

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

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

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

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Countdown

Recorded in Melbourne, Australia

November 1978

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)

THAMES AT SIX - interview with Rita Carter

TONIGHT - interview with Valerie Singleton (BBC 1)

Recorded in London

12 February 1979

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The Kenny Everett Video Show

Recorded in London (ITV)

23 April 1979

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.

Countdown

Recorded in London 1 December 1979

Broadcast 31 December 1979 (Australian ABC-TV)

Interviewed for End Of The Decade special

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

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

Featured Bowie’s specially prepared group, Blondie’s Jimmy Destri and German singer/ performer, Klaus Nomi.

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

Filmed March 1980

Bowie went to Japan to make two television commercials for Crystal Jun Rock, a Saki drink exclusive to Japan marketed by the Takar Shuzo Co. Ltd. Filming, which lasted for two weeks, was centred in a temple in Kyoto. The only lines Bowie uttered during the commercial were, ‘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.

’I guess I’m sort of on top of the world at the moment,’ the 32-year-old Englishman said, sitting in the dressing room before an appearance Friday night on "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson". Waiting for the Carson taping to begin, he chatted with friends and even signed a few autographs. To see Bowie’s first performance in two years, about twenty of the rock star’s fans camped in front of NBC on Thursday night to secure tickets for the Carson show. By Friday morning, about two hundred fans were there. 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."

Friday Night - Saturday Morning

BBC 2

Broadcast 10 October 1980

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 (Australia)

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

Musikzene

broadcast 7 December 1980

RB (Germany)

Includes a feature on Bowie in The Elephant Man