Show me you’re real…
While recent news of a deal between the BBC and EMI may be true enough, the details in
The newspaper reports that the BBC will make available to EMI all its television and radio archives. Good news indeed. They then go on to say…
“Highlights of the BBC archive include behind-the-scenes footage of David Bowie?s 1974 Diamond Dogs tour, which will be released for sale in CD, DVD and downloadable formats. A BBC Omnibus documentary crew filmed the tour in a period when the singer was using cocaine. The result was the film Cracked Actor.”
Sadly, this seems like a bit of wishful thinking. There are no plans to release Cracked Actor in any format and it isn’t on EMI’s schedule list.
I’m afraid the classic Alan Yentob Omnibus documentary, (first shown in 1975) won’t be available commercially in the near or foreseeable future.