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16/08/2025

R.E.M. | Fall On Me | Michael Stipe’s Original Promo | 1986 | 2025 Restoration

Here is a new restoration of the official promo video for Fall On Me by R.E.M., which was released as a single in August 1986.

Fall on Me is from the fourth R.E.M. album, Lifes Rich Pageant, that was released in July 1986. The album saw the band transition from their murky lyrics and jangling guitar to a more accessible and yet hard rock-influenced sound, under the influence of producer Don Gehman.

Writer Gavin Edwards praised "Fall on Me" as "the finest song in the R.E.M. canon. A lullaby of modern anxiety, it's flexible enough to serve as a potent metaphor for acid rain, nuclear warfare, satellite surveillance or any other modern phobia you choose".

The Fall On Me video was filmed and directed by Michael Stipe. The band don't feature in the video. Lyrics are seen superimposed over upside-down, black-and-white footage of a quarry and various pieces of abandoned equipment.

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For me, R.E.M. were one of the best bands of the 1980’s, and beyond. I loved so much of what they put out in the 80’s and 90’s.

I saw some memorable R.E.M. shows over the years. I believe – tho’ I can’t find any record of it - the first time I saw them was supporting Sonic Youth around 1984. Next, in late ‘85 on the Fables tour. Then it seems, there was a long void until I saw them again, at their first Glastonbury Festival Pyramid Stage headliner, in ‘99. This was an extraordinary experience to me; at least partly because my then girlfriend and I were super high on pills.

The last time I caught R.E.M. was at the Austin City Limits festival in 2003. It was another fabulous show, and afterwards I sorta met Michael Stipe.

A guy I had been hanging out with in the crowd told me there was to be an R.E.M. secret after-show party, at a small club in town. After the gig, I headed over there, and by some miracle I managed to blag my way in.

Inside the club, I sat on a kind of half wall to get a good view of the stage above the small crowd. On stage, R.E.M., minus Michael Stipe, were backing CeDell Davis, an old wheelchair-bound blues guy. His hands were so arthritic that he played slide guitar with a fork wedged between his fingers.

Then Michael Stipe entered the club, and it was one of those surreal moments. As I recall it, all heads seemed to turn to watch him. He cut an impressive figure, appearing to me in that moment as one of the most charismatic and handsome man I’d ever seen. But it was more than that; all the mystery and genius of his songs that I had loved over the years, seemed to overcome me, and I became filled with emotions. And then suddenly Michael Stipe was standing directly in front of me. In a cold sweat, I debated with myself what I should do. Suddenly I was tapping him on the shoulder. Stipe turned to face me with a very nice open expression, but my mind went completely blank. After a nervous pause, I managed to blurt out some probably incoherent fanboy praise. But thank God, Stipe seemed to sense exactly what was going on with me, and warmly shook my hand and thanked me.

What is it up in the air for?

My favourite R.E.M. album is Lifes Rich Pageant. I loved the rock element pushed to the fore, yet retaining the beautiful melodies and Stipes mysterious lyrics. If I was cornered to name my favorite R.E.M, song, I’d probably pick Fall On Me.

In late ’86 I was working at a Virgin Records store in Oxford Street, London. One day, suddenly playing on the instore TV’s and sound system was a promotional video for Fall On Me. I stopped what I was doing to listen to this great song and watch the video for the first time. Large orange letters approximating the lyrics, were superimposed over dark, indistinct images. Lyrics which formerly I had not been able to fully catch, were now revealed to me. The song / video combination deeply moved me.

Until the emergence of YouTube I never saw the Fall On Me video again. But the existing version is a very old upload and is in poor visual and audio quality. Thus the need for an upgrade.

Thanks for watching, I hope you dig it!

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Sources

Video:
R.E.M. | Fall On Me | Michael Stipe’s Original Promo | 1986

Audio:
R.E.M. | Fall On Me | Originally from the album Lifes Rich Pageant | Record April and May 1986 | Belmont Mall Recording Studio | Belmont, Indiana | Released 28 July 1986 | I.R.S. Records

Musicians:
Bill Berry | drums, percussion, and backing vocals
Peter Buck | guitar
Mike Mills | bass guitar, piano and backing vocals
Michael Stipe | lead vocals

Production:
Don Gehman

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Here is a new restoration of the official promo video for Fall On Me by R.E.M., which was released as a single in August 1986.Fall on Me is from the fourth R...

08/08/2025

David Bowie | Ashes to Ashes | Original Promo Video | 1980 | 2025 Restoration

On this day 45 years ago, the 8th of August 1980, the David Bowie single Ashes to Ashes was released.

Here’s my restoration of the original Ashes to Ashes promo video, which was directed by Bowie and David Mallet.

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Rather than add my anecdotes and superlatives about Ashes to Ashes and it’s promo video, I’m gonna sit this one out and just point us in a few decent directions…

One of the best thing’s I read about Ashes to Ashes is Chris O’Leary’s epic essay on the song and the video, on his Pushing Ahead of the Dames blog: https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/ashes-to-ashes/

See also Roger Griffin’s Golden Years page for May 1980:
https://www.bowiegoldenyears.com/1980.html

Wiki has some really great info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashes_to_Ashes_(David_Bowie_song)

And for those that don’t know it, Michael Dignum’s brilliant C**t in a Clown Suit story has become an essential part of the Ashes to Ashes video shoot legend. Michael’s original telling of the story can be found here, his 12th of January 2016 FB post:
https://www.facebook.com/michael.dignum.1/posts/10153309716274071

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This current official version of the Ashes to Ashes video that is online, and contained in the Best of Bowie DVD, is very poor quality. Brett Morgen included the video in his Moonage Daydream documentary, and despite having researchers, all the best technology and technicians and huge finance made available to him, it looked terrible in his film too. At the time of MD I seem to recall reading somewhere that Morgen was unhappy with the quality of the Ashes promo he had to work with.

So that leads me to believe that the Bowie estate don’t have a master copy of the Ashes promo or anything even close to a master.

And yet, sometimes when the BBC and other networks, include a scene from the Ashes promo in documentaries and news items, it looks great. For years now, I’ve been collecting various TV station broadcasts that include bits of the Ashes promo, hoping to amass the entire promo in good enough quality and then compile all the bits into a satisfying whole.

And so, after much patience and then much labour, here we are.

I hope you dig it!

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The D.A.M Trilogy Tour

Carlos Alomar and George Murray (original members of the D.A.M. Trio), essential to David Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy albums, tour together for the first time in five decades!

The ‘faster’ songs from Low, “Heroes” and Lodger are the focus of 16 shows with an expanded band, including Bowie 80’s-90’s collaborator Kevin Armstrong, and the incredible vocalist, Cunio.

Carlos Alomar presents
THE D.A.M. TRILOGY
Back to Berlin Tour 2025
A tour honouring David Bowie & Dennis Davis
16 European Dates On Sale now!!

Get your tickets here: https://damtriotour.tix.to/2025

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Credits
Video Source: David Bowie | Ashes to Ashes official promo video | Directed by David Mallet and David Bowie | Shot in May 1980 | Pett Level, East Sussex, Ewart Studios, Wandsworth | Released August 1980

Music Source:
David Bowie | Ashes to Ashes | Recorded at the Power Station, New York, February 1980 & Good Earth, London, April 1980 | Produced by David Bowie & Tony Visconti | From the album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) released 1980

Musicians
David Bowie | vocals, keyboards
Chuck Hammer | Roland GR500 guitar synthesiser, Eventide harmoniser and multiple analogue tape delays
Carlos Alomar | guitar
Andy Clark | synthesiser
Roy Bittan | piano
George Murray | bass
Dennis Davis | drums
David Bowie & Tony Visconti | Production

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Bowie #1980

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On this day 45 years ago, the 8th of August 1980, the David Bowie single Ashes to Ashes was released. Here’s my restoration of the original Ashes to Ashes promo video, which was directed by Bowie and David Mallet. • Rather than add my personal anecdotes and superlatives about Ashes to Ashes and ...

05/08/2025

David Bowie | Live on Musikladen Extra | Complete Show | Bremen, Germany | 29 May 1978 | 2025 Restoration

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On this day, 4th of August 1978, a live performance by David Bowie and his ‘78 tour band at the Radio Bremen TV Studio, was first broadcast on German TV, via the Musikladen Extra show.

Bowie is in fine voice, the band is on fire, and they are clearly enjoying themselves very much.

Here for the first time ever, is the complete 55-minute performance, which was never broadcast or previously made available in this form.

The material, taken from several different sources, has been restored for your optimal sound and vision enjoyment!

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David Bowie’s Isolar II 1978 World Tour, also known as The Low / “Heroes” World Tour or The Stage Tour, opened on the 29th of March, 1978 at the San Diego Sports Arena. The tour continued through North America, Europe and Australia and New Zealand before reaching a conclusion at the NHK Hall in Tokyo, on the 12th of December, 1978. Eighty dates were played, with a total attendance of almost 1.2 million people.

The musicians on the tour were Bowie’s mainstay D.A.M. Trio band - Dennis Davis on drums, Carlos Alomar on guitar, band leader, and George Murray on bass. In addition Bowie recruited Adrian Belew, lead guitar, Simon House, violin, Sean Mayes, piano and Roger Powell, synthesizer.

Sean Mayes, from Life On Tour With David Bowie: We Can Be Heroes:

David had chosen us for our individual abilities and didn't really interfere with us much. So the music found its own level and became very much the band’s music played in our own way.

Adrian Belew, from David Buckley, Strange Fascination:

He gave me full rein to be his guitarist and to add a lot of colours and sounds; to play solos and to be involved in the shape and form of the music itself.

Carlos Alomar, from David Buckley, Strange Fascination:

That was a wonderful band. You wouldn't normally find a band that would have a violin player, a lead guitar player, a synth player and a piano player – these are all soloist instruments.

The Musikladen show gives us a pretty much unprecedented closeup of the brilliance of Bowie and his fantastic ‘78 tour band, in front of a tiny studio audience, and under bright TV studio lights.

Sean Mayes, from Life On Tour With David Bowie: We Can Be Heroes:

We flew up to Bremen in north Germany for a TV show. Musik Laden was the largest pop show in the world, going out to all Germany and parts of surrounding countries. The studio is arranged just like a music club with posters of Marx, Dietrich, etc on the painted walls. There's a bar and tables and chairs for 150 kids so the cameras seem out of place, not the crowd. The stage was quite small and had no barriers, but the Germans said there would be no problems. David had put together a short show and we filed out between the scenery and the potted palms to applause from the 150.

They were right about "no problems" - our only problem was adjusting to such a small and self-possessed audience. One girl, who was close enough to reach out and touch David's leg, sat with her back to the stage for the entire performance. Eat your hearts out Bowie fanatics! It was a good show, though.

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After the ‘78 tour, Bowie never again toured with this band configuration, or indeed his mighty D.A.M. Trio, and many of the songs from those shows were never played live again.

And so it's a dream come true for me, and I am sure for many fans of Bowie's music from that era, that the surviving members of D.A.M. Trio will finally reunite for a tour later this year. Here's the information:

The D.A.M Trilogy Tour

Carlos Alomar and George Murray (original members of the D.A.M. Trio), essential to David Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy albums, tour together for the first time in five decades!

The ‘faster’ songs from Low, “Heroes” and Lodger are the focus of 16 shows with an expanded band, including Bowie 80’s-90’s collaborator Kevin Armstrong, and the incredible vocalist, Cunio.

Carlos Alomar presents
THE D.A.M. TRILOGY
Back to Berlin Tour 2025
A tour honouring David Bowie & Dennis Davis
16 European Dates On Sale now!!

Get your tickets here: https://damtriotour.tix.to/2025

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In the meantime please enjoy this great performance from 1978.

Thanks for watching, I hope you dig it!

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Video and audio:
David Bowie | Live on Musikladen Extra | Bremen | 29 May 1978 | Radio Bremen TV Studio 3 | Bremen, West Germany | Original Broadcast (8 songs only) 4 August 1978 | A Radio Bremen Production | Directed by Michael Leckebusch | ZDF | ARD

Musicians:
David Bowie | Vocal, keyboards
Dennis Davis | Drums
Carlos Alomar | Guitar, band leader
George Murray | Bass
Adrian Belew | Lead guitar
Simon House | Violin
Sean Mayes | Piano, string ensemble
Roger Powell | Synthesizer, keyboards

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On this day, 4th of August 1978, a live performance by David Bowie and his ‘78 tour band at the Radio Bremen TV Studio, was first broadcast on German TV, via...

25/07/2025

David Bowie | Fame | Live on the Cher Show | 18 September 1975

Fame was released as a single on this day fifty years ago, the 25th of July 1975.

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This video is my restoration of David Bowie performing Fame on the Cher show. This fierce, intense performance is surely one of Bowie’s greatest TV appearances.

The Fame vocal performance is really astonishing in its forcefulness. It is also interesting because it uses a different mix of Fame as backing track for Bowie’s vocal.

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Fame came into being during a one-day session at Electric Lady Studios in New York, in January 1975. It was based on a riff that guitarist Carlos Alomar had developed for Bowie's cover of "Foot Stomping'" by the Flares. Bowie thought the riff was too good to waste on a cover, and reworked it for a new song. John Lennon, who was in the studio with them, came up with the hook when he started to sing "aim" over the riff, which Bowie turned into "Fame".

Bowie would later describe "Fame" as "nasty, angry", and fully admitted that it was written "with a degree of malice" aimed at his former manager Tony Defries and his management company, MainMan which was haemorrhaging Bowie’s money.

On September the 20th, two days after recording the Cher show, Fame would be Bowie’s first US No. 1 record.

In many ways, Fame was the blueprint for what was to come, and on September the 21st, Bowie reunited with producer Harry Maslin, Carlos Alomar, drummer Dennis Davis, plus guitarist Earl Slick, E-Street band pianist Roy Bittan and George Murray on bass replacing Emir Ksasan, for the start of the Station to Station sessions.

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I’ve been hoping to get hold of a decent quality copy of this episode of the Cher show for many years. So it’s big thanks to Tyler for providing me with one at last.

There was no in-studio audience for the Cher show, the applause and laughter was all dubbed on in post-production. And so, for the end of the performance, I have edited in a pre-broadcast production audio of the show, so we can hear the actual people in the CBS studio – presumably technicians etc - applauding Bowie's performance.

Thanks for watching, hope you dig it!

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Video:
David Bowie | Fame | Live on the Cher Show | 18 September 1975
| Series 2 Episode 11 | CBS Television City, Los Angeles | Broadcast 23 November 1975 | CBS US | Cher show episode Directed by Bill Davis | APIS George Schlatter Production Inc.

Audio:
David Bowie | Fame | Live Vocal | Instrumental Mix by Harry Maslin | Backing track originally recorded January 1975 | Electric Lady Studios , NYC | Written by David Bowie | John Lennon | Carlos Alomar | ℗ 1975, 2016 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Co., LLC under exclusive license to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

Musicians:
David Bowie | lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano, percussion
John Lennon | backing vocals, acoustic guitar
Carlos Alomar | lead and rhythm guitars
Emir Ksasan | bass
Dennis Davis | drums

Production:
Harry Maslin
David Bowie

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A new restoration of David Bowie performing Fame on the Cher show, which was recorded on this day 18th of September 1975. This fierce, intense performance is...

28/05/2025

David Bowie | Beauty and the Beast | Musikladen Extra | Bremen | 30 May 1978 | 2025 Restoration

This video is a live performance of Beauty and the Beast, one of the highlights of the David Bowie 1978 Isolar II shows.

It is an excerpt from the forthcoming restored, and for the first time ever complete show, of Bowie, The D.A.M. Trio (Davis/Alomar/Murray) and the rest of the ‘78 tour band, live on Musikladen Extra, a popular German TV show from the late 70’s and early ‘80’s.

David Bowie’s Isolar II 1978 World Tour, also known as The Low / “Heroes” World Tour or The Stage Tour, opened on the 29th of March, 1978 at the San Diego Sports Arena. The tour continued through North America, Europe and Australia and New Zealand before reaching a conclusion at the NHK Hall in Tokyo, on the 12th of December, 1978. Eighty dates were played, with a total attendance of almost 1.2 million people.

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast was the angular, abrasive opening track of the “Heroes” album. It was the follow-up single to “Heroes”, but had failed to make the charts, probably due to what NME editors Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray described as it’s "jarring, threatening edge”. The menacing mood of Beauty and the Beast was entirely appropriate for the lyrical content, which was in all likelihood about Bowie’s schizophrenia and severe mood swings, during his cocaine-addicted L.A. days.

Smile at least

On the live version, the funk element was jacked up considerably. It’s easy to see why Beauty and the Beast was often chosen to end the set.

You can’t say no

After the ‘78 tour, Bowie never played Beauty and the Beast again. It’s a pity because it is such a great song. But then again, perhaps that beautiful monster groove was best left exclusively in the hands of Bowie's mighty D.A.M. Trio?

And so it's a dream come true for me, and I am sure for many fans of Bowie's music from that era, that the surviving members of D.A.M. Trio will finally reunite for a tour later this year. Here's the information:

The D.A.M Trilogy Tour

General Admission Tickets are now on sale!

Get yours now to not miss out, and be a part of something very special.

Carlos Alomar and George Murray (original members of the D.A.M. Trio), essential to David Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy albums, tour together for the first time in five decades!

The ‘faster’ songs from Low, Heroes and Lodger are the focus of 16 shows with an expanded band, including Tin Machine’s Kevin Armstrong and vocalist, Cunio.

Carlos Alomar presents
THE D.A.M. TRILOGY
Back to Berlin Tour 2025
A tour honouring David Bowie & Dennis Davis
16 European Dates On Sale now!!

Get your tickets here: https://damtriotour.tix.to/2025

In the meantime please enjoy this great performance from 1978.

Thanks for watching, I hope you dig it!

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Video and audio:
David Bowie | Beauty and the Beast | Live on Musikladen Extra | Bremen | 30 May 1978 | Radio Bremen TV Studio 3 | Bremen, West Germany | A Radio Bremen Production | Directed by Michael Leckebusch | ZDF | ARD

Musicians:
David Bowie | Vocal, keyboards
Dennis Davis | Drums
Carlos Alomar | Guitar, band leader
George Murray | Bass
Adrian Belew | Lead guitar
Simon House | Violin
Sean Mayes | Piano, string ensemble
Roger Powell | Synthesizer, keyboards

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This video is a live performance of Beauty and the Beast, one of the highlights of the David Bowie 1978 Isolar II shows.It is an excerpt from the forthcoming...

26/05/2025

David Bowie | Warszawa | Live on Musikladen Extra | Bremen | 30 May 1978

And now we hear that Simon House, violinist on David Bowie’s 1978 tour and 1979 Lodger album, has unfortunately just left the building.

Simon was an English composer and classically trained violinistand keyboard player, perhaps best known for his work with space rock band Hawkwind in the mid-70’s and as violinist for Bowie. He rejoined Hawkwind several times, and continued making and recording music until the 2000’s.

Simon is featured prominently in this recently discovered, previously unbroadcast, high-quality recording of Bowie and his tour band on Musikladen Extra, a German TV show, performing Warszawa, in May 1978.

If all goes according to plan, later this week I’ll be releasing the entire, unedited Musikladen Extra show, the first time it ever been seen. Watch this space!

Simon House
29 August 1948 - May 2025
RIP

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Video and audio:
David Bowie | Warszawa | Live on Musikladen Extra | Bremen | 30 May 1978 | Radio Bremen TV Studio 3 | Bremen, West Germany | A Radio Bremen Production | Directed by Michael Leckebusch | ZDF | ARD

Musicians:
David Bowie | Vocal, keyboards
Dennis Davis | Drums
Carlos Alomar | Conductor
George Murray | Bass
Simon House | Violin
Sean Mayes | Piano, string ensemble
Roger Powell | Synthesizer, keyboards

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On the 14th of January 1977, David Bowie’s ground breaking album Low was released. Side 2 of the record – the ‘ambient’ side - begins with the track Warszawa...

25/05/2025

David Bowie | Space Oddity | Universal Amphitheatre | 5 Sep 1974 | Cracked Actor 2024 Re-edit and Restoration

Alan Yentob: What universe is that?
Young Fan: Bowie Universe!

I think the biggest liberty I took with Alan Yentob’s Cracked Actor material, was with this re-edit of the Space Oddity section of his film. In the original documentary, the 1969 studio version of Space Oddity was dubbed over the 1974 live footage. I sorta reverse engineered the footage to fit the live audio of the same show, taken from the David Bowie album, Cracked Actor.

I bookended the performance, with footage of spaced-out kids from the audience. At the end I used the famous clip of 16-year old Hannah “Space Cadet” Breschard being interviewed by Alan Yentob.

Alan Yentob: What’s your fantasy?
Hannah Breschard: Aah, Bowie!

Movingly, Hannah just posted:

This one hurts so much!
I am absolutely destroyed, wrecked and bereft . Alan was so important in my life . He plucked a 16 year old me out of the audience of a David Bowie concert and placed me in his iconic documentary “ Cracked Actor”. He really changed the course of my life by this one moment. May his memory be a blessing.

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David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs tour commenced in June 1974. It utilized a rock opera-style stage show format with multiple sets, costume changes, and choreography. The stage set for the tour, “Hunger City” was designed by Mark Ravitz. It included a variety of props, such as streetlamps, chairs and catwalks.

Bowie performed Space Oddity on the Diamond Dogs tour, elevated above the audience, in a chair mounted on the moving hydraulic arm of a cherry picker. Bowie in his cherry picker seat, would emerge from a pair of doors atop one of the “Hunger City” towers [the one with the phallus]. He would extend out over the first six rows of the audience to sing Space Oddity. As the song came to an end, the chair would return to its position and the final note would see Bowie feign death with his head slumped, before the stage was plunged into darkness.

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The material in this video is from the 12-date second leg of the Diamond Dogs tour, which commenced with 7 dates at the Universal Amphitheatre, in Los Angeles and finished at the Anaheim Convention Centre in California, from the 2nd to the 16th of September.

The band was considerable changed from the first leg of the tour. Michael Kamen, who was musical director and keyboard player on the initial leg was out. Doug Rauch and Greg Errico replaced Herbie Flowers and Tony Newman, on bass and drums respectively. Also, significantly, guitarist Carlos Alomar joined Bowie’s band for the first time. And, the original duo of backing singers Gui Andrisano and Warren Peace, was much expanded to seven persons, including Luther Vandross.

BBC filmmaker Alan Yentob and his team were at the September shows to document them and Bowie’s precarious state of mind. Yentob fashioned the resulting material into one of the most widely celebrated music documentaries of all time, Cracked Actor. It was first shown on BBC1 on the 26th of January 1975. In 2013, Alan Yentob said of the film: "I'd caught him at what was an intensely creative time, but it was also physically and emotionally gruelling. Our encounters tended to take place in hotel rooms in the early hours of the morning or in snatched conversations in the back of limousines”.

The concert footage was shot at the Universal Ampitheater, Los Angeles, on September the 5th, 1974. The fan footage is likely from the Tuscon Convention Center show, 13th of September.

Space Oddity is the only complete song in Cracked Actor. However, the live footage was overdubbed with the original 1969 version of the song. Here on my video, I’ve replaced the audio with the original live recording from the 5th of September show

When recutting, the long dissolves and double exposure “flying” scenes created continuity issues. To circumvent that, some scenes are swapped around, and other moments from Cracked Actor are added - mostly enthusiastic and spaced-out, young audience members, gazing up adoringly at our somewhat lost / aloof / perhaps bored Major Tom.

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The source for my Cracked Actor restoration project is a pre-broadcast master source, that retains the original 4:3 ratio. I have restored the film, scene by scene, and edited in an all-new music soundtrack, using the latest remastered version of every song featured in the film.

From the restoration, here is the Space Oddity scene, re-synced for the first time to the original live performance.

Thanks for watching, I hope you dig it!

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Credits

Video Source:
Cracked Actor | 1975 BBC documentary | Produced & Directed by Alan Yentob | Restored by Nacho 2024

Music Source:
David Bowie | Space Oddity | Live at the Universal Amphitheatre | 5th September 1974 | From the album Cracked Actor | Produced by David Bowie | Mixed by Tony Visconti | Released 2017

Musicians:
David Bowie | vocals
Mike Garson | piano, mellotron
Earl Slick | guitar
Carlos Alomar | rhythm guitar
David Sanborn | alto saxophone, flute
Richard Grando | baritone saxophone, flute
Doug Rauch | bass
Greg Errico | drums
Pablo Rosario | percussion
Gui Andrisano | backing vocals
Warren Peace | backing vocals
Ava Cherry | backing vocals
Robin Clark | backing vocals
Anthony Hinton | backing vocals
Diane Sumler | backing vocals
Luther Vandross | backing vocals

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This is a new edit and restoration of David Bowie performing Space Oddity live on his Diamond Dogs tour, fifty years ago; September 1974. The footage is sour...

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