I’m living in a silent film…
We told you about this one a few weeks ago, before tonight’s episode, previously called Between Rock And an Art Place, was renamed
If you want to be able to enjoy this second instalment of the BBC’s
At the time, reports circulating mentioned that two songs, Five Years and Hang On To Yourself, recorded at the Rainbow Theatre on August 19, 1972, were to be screened.
Having now viewed a preview DVD, I can confirm that there are snippets of both, but I’m pretty sure these are just bits of Mick Rock‘s silent footage with bootleg soundtracks overdubbed.
Most of the footage is stuff you have seen before, mainly taken from the BBC archives, but in some cases heavily treated with solarisation and ageing effects, like Five Years from TOGWT and Starman from TOTPs.
Indeed, I’m not sure the Mick Rock footage hasn’t been treated too. It’s far grainier and more aged than I remember.
There’s also interview footage from David Bowie and the likes of Tony Visconti, Lou Reed, Charles Shaar Murray, Lindsay Kemp and Nick Pegg, but again, this mixes archive stuff with interviews from new contributors such as Mr Pegg.
As I said last time, David has not contributed directly in any way to
Anyway, despite all this, and like last week’s programme, it’s still a good bit of TV, particularly to the casual observer.
Aside from the Bowie stuff, tonight’s episode contains some wonderful footage of Syd Barrett with Pink Floyd, The Velvet Underground, Roxy Music, Genesis and more.
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If you’re in the UK and wish to continue your Bowie viewing further this evening, check out the calendar above for details of two classic Bowie films on BBC 4.
Finally, the print of the four Radio Times covers that we mentioned in a previous story, (05.14.2007 NEWS: ZIGGY IN ALL TIME TOP FIVE PLUS RADIO TIMES COVER) seems to have been