“The band was all together…”
Those of you who have been keeping up with VINYL, the new(ish) HBO show from executive producers Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger, will have seen the Bowie tribute in episode six, Cyclone, last night. (Sunday 20th)
Here’s the synopsis of that episode, complete with spoilers for those who haven’t watched it yet.
We’re not giving anything away by telling you that one scene catches Ziggy (played by Noah Bean) with The Spiders From Mars rehearsing Suffragette City.
Obviously it’s actors portraying Bowie and the band and they do make a pretty good fist of it, even if they are just miming to a heavily reverbed version of Bowie’s original recording.
As you can see from our montage, the three main Spiders are all present and correct, but the programme makers have even gone to the trouble of including Trevor’s silver sideburns along with Mike Garson and Geoff MacCormack lookalikes.
Later in the episode, while staff clean up after the Yankovich bat mitzvah, Zak watches in awe as the house band’s lead singer delivers a heartfelt rendition of Life on Mars?.
He actually mimes to the Trey Songz version of the song which appears on the VINYL soundtrack, which is available now.
if you’ve not been watching VINYL it’s definitely worth catching up with.
Finally, here‘s an interesting Noah Bean interview on Business Insider UK.
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