Join me this Saturday for a full-on Bowiebinge through the first thirty years of The Dame’s career. It promizzzez to be a truly zzzzuperlatative exploration into Zzzavid’s life and work. Wuzza-wuzza-wuzzz!

16:00 – Tonight (1964)

“In his first TV appearance, at the age of 17, David Bowie is interviewed by Cliff Michelmore, for the BBC’s Tonight programme, about his newly-founded Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-Haired Men.”

16:05 – Love You Till Tuesday (1969)

“Love You Till Tuesday was a promotional film designed to showcase the talents of David Bowie, made in 1969. The film was an attempt by Bowie’s manager, Kenneth Pitt, to bring Bowie to a wider audience. Pitt had undertaken the film after a suggestion by Günther Schneider, producer of German TV show 4-3-2-1 Musik Für Junge Leute for the ZDF network. The film ended up being shelved, and was not released until 1984, when it finally came out on video cassette. A DVD version was released in UK in 2005.”

16:35 – David Bowie – The Nationwide 1973 TV Special

A BBC news report on David Bowie, as he prepares for his last public concert at the Odeon, Hammersmith, July 4th, 1973.

16:45 – David Bowie – Cobbler Bob

Animation by Oblong Pictures, written and performed by Adam Buxton. David has decided it’s time to move on from Ziggy and presents Angie with his ideas for a new persona.

16:50 – Film: Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (1973)

“Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (sometimes called Bowie 1973) is a 1979 documentary and concert film by D. A. Pennebaker. It features English singer-songwriter David Bowie and his backing group the Spiders from Mars performing at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on 3 July 1973.^[1] At this show, Bowie made the sudden surprise announcement that the show would be “the last show that we’ll ever do”, later understood to mean that he was retiring his Ziggy Stardust persona.^[2][3]“

18:15 – The Dick Cavett Show (1974)

The Dame’s infamous guest appearance on Dick Cavett’s talk show, at the height of his “living off cocaine and milk” period.

18:45 – Bowie, Eno & Visconti Record “Warsawsza”

Animation by the Bros. McLeod, written and performed by Adam Buxton, An insight into the recording sessions that produced Bowie’s classic 1977 LP “Low”.

18:50 – Bowie on Saturday Night Live (1979)

Hilariously odd performance from Dave & a bunch of his New York arty weirdo mates, including Klaus Kinski on backing vocals and Blondie’s Jimmy Destri doing his best Ron Mael impression on keyboards.

19:00 – David Bowie in New York 1980 – The Elephant Man, Scary Monsters & Other Strange People

Compilation of TV interviews and clips covering Bowie’s time performing in the Elephant Man on stage in New York.

19:35 – Film: Baal (1982)

Bowie stars in a TV adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s 1918, play directed by the late great Alan Clarke.

“The titular protagonist is a drunken poet, iconoclast and womanizer, whose decline is charted over the course of the play. Brecht wrote Baal, his first full-length play, in 1918, yet it was not performed in public until 1923. Its premiere took place on 8 December that year at the Altes Theater in Leipzig, and it was reworked for a 1926 production in Berlin. The BBC adaptation was directed by Alan Clarke, who was best known for his social realism works for television and cinema. These included Scum, Made In Britain, and the feature film Rita, Sue And Bob Too.”

20:40 – Film: The Hunger (1983)

“The Hunger is a 1983 erotic horror film directed by Tony Scott, starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, and Susan Sarandon. The plot is about a love triangle between a doctor, who specializes in sleep and aging research, and a vampire couple. The film is a loose adaptation of the 1981 novel of the same name by Whitley Strieber, with a screenplay by Ivan Davis and Michael Thomas. The groundbreaking special effects were handled by Dick Smith (make-up artist) (of The Exorcist fame).^[1]

After premiering at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival,^[2] The Hunger was released in the spring of 1983 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Though it received a mixed critical response, the film accrued a cult following within the goth subculture in the years since its release.^[3]“

22:15 – Film: Labyrinth (1986)

“Labyrinth is a 1986 musical fantasy film directed by Jim Henson, with George Lucas as executive producer, based upon conceptual designs by Brian Froud. It revolves around 16-year-old Sarah‘s (Jennifer Connelly) quest to reach the center of an enormous otherworldly maze to rescue her infant brother Toby, whom Sarah wished away to Jareth, the Goblin King (David Bowie). Most of the film’s main characters, apart from Bowie and Connelly, are played by puppets produced by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.

The film started as a collaboration between Henson and Froud following their previous collaboration The Dark Crystal (1982). Terry Jones of Monty Python wrote the first draft of the film’s script early in 1984, drawing on Froud’s sketches for inspiration. Various other scriptwriters rewrote it and added to it, including Laura Phillips, Lucas, Dennis Lee, and Elaine May—although Jones received the film’s sole screenwriting credit. It was shot from April to September 1985 on location in Upper Nyack, Piermont, and Haverstraw, New York, and at Elstree Studios and West Wycombe Park in the United Kingdom.”

00:00 – The Jack Docherty Show (April 18th 1997)

Bowie was the guest on this episode of the Channel 5 chat-show from 1997, promoting his then new album “Earthling”.

00:25 – Fin