David Bowie through the decades

  • David Bowie Thin White Duke Isolar Tour 1976

    David Bowie – ‘Changes’ – Isolar tour rehearsal

    Although poor quality, this footage of Bowie rehearsing ‘Changes’ from the 1972 album ‘Hunky Dory’ gives us a rare insight into the Isolar tour of 1976. The Isolar tour of North America and Europe in support of the ‘Station To Station’ album commenced on 2 February 1976 at the...
  • Wild Is The Wind by David Bowie, 1981 single front cover

    Wild Is The Wind

    'Wild Is The Wind' by David Bowie was released on 23 January 1976 as part of the album 'Station To Station', and then as a single on 13 November 1981....
  • David Bowie interviewed by Russell Harty (Part 2)

    Second part of David Bowie’s 1975 interview on the Russell Harty show....
  • David Bowie interviewed by Russell Harty (Part 1)

    Here David Bowie is interviewed on The Russell Harty Show over a satellite connection in 1975. The interview was an awkward affair, made more difficult by the time delay of the satellite link. Clearly not comfortable, Bowie looked bemused by Harty’s attempts to be playful and humorous. The Interview Russell...
  • David Bowie & Cher duet on 'Can You Hear Me' on the Cher Show in 1975

    ‘Can You Hear Me’ duet with Cher

    David Bowie sings 'Can You Hear Me' with Cher on the Cher Show, broadcast on 23 November 1975....
  • David Bowie duets with Cher

    David Bowie & Cher perform a duet of ‘Young Americans’

    Here Bowie performs a medley of ‘Young Americans / Ain’t No Sunshine / Blue Moon / Doo Doo Ron Ron / Day Tripper / Maybe Baby / Only You / Song Sung Blue / Temptation / Wedding Bell Blues / Youngblood / Young Americans’ as a duet with Cher. It...
  • ‘Fame’ performed on the Cher Show

    David Bowie performs ‘Fame’ on CBS’ Cher Show. This episode was broadcast on 23 November 1975. Bowie also performed ‘Can You Hear Me‘ as a duet with Cher, and a Medley of Young Americans / Ain’t No Sunshine / Blue Moon / Doo Doo Ron Ron / Day Tripper...
  • ‘Fame’ performed on Soul Train

    David Bowie performs 'Fame' on Soul Train on 4 November 1975...
  • David Bowie in make-up before his 1975 Soul Train appearance

    David Bowie performs ‘Golden Years’ on Soul Train

    David Bowie is interviewed and performs ‘Golden Years’ from Station to Station on the ABC TV show Soul Train on 4 November 1975...
  • Fame by David Bowie - 1975 single front cover

    Fame

    The story behind 'Fame', David Bowie's first U.S. number 1, co-written with John Lennon and Carlos Alomar and originally released on Young Americans...
  • Ava Cherry and David Bowie

    Can You Hear Me

    The story behind 'Can You Hear Me', which is one of the highlights of Bowie's album Young Americans, which was released on 7 March 1975....
  • David Bowie Young Americans 1975 single front cover

    Young Americans

    The first studio result of his mid-1970s obsession with soul music, 'Young Americans' was a breakthrough hit for David Bowie in the United States....
  • US TV advert for David Bowie's 'Young Americans'

    US TV advert for David Bowie’s ‘Young Americans’

    The US TV advert for David Bowie’s 1975 masterpiece, 'Young Americans', featuring footage of a painfully thin Bowie miming to the track....
  • ‘1984’ performed on the Dick Cavett Show

    David Bowie performing ‘1984’ at the Dick Cavett Show, 5 December 1974. The show was recorded in New York on 2 November 1974, and pianist Mike Garson was the band’s musical director....
  • ‘Footstompin’ performed on The Dick Cavett Show

    David Bowie performing ‘Footstompin’ on The Dick Cavett Show, 5 December 1974. ‘Footstompin’ was originally cut by The Flares in 1961, and , and paired this with ‘I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate’ on the Diamond Dogs tour. The riff developed by Carlos Alomar would later morph...
  • ‘Young Americans’ performed on the Dick Cavett Show

    David Bowie performing ‘Young Americans’ on the Dick Cavett Show on 4 December 1974....
  • David Bowie interviewed on the Dick Cavett Show 1974 – Part 1

    After a total of 74 concerts, David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs/Philly Dogs Soul Tour closed in Atlanta on 1st December 1974. three days later on the 4th December, Dick Cavett’s Wide World Of Entertainment screened this pre-recorded appearance of David Bowie that had been taped in New York on 2nd...
  • David Bowie interviewed on the Dick Cavett Show 1974 – Part 2

    After a total of 74 concerts, David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs/Philly Dogs Soul Tour closed in Atlanta on 1st December 1974. three days later on the 4th December, Dick Cavett’s Wide World Of Entertainment screened this pre-recorded appearance of David Bowie that had been taped in New York on 2nd...
  • David Bowie performs Can You Hear Me on the Philly/Diamond Dogs Tour in 1974

    ‘Can You Hear Me’ performed live on the Philly Dogs tour in 1974

    This never seen before footage is the first to emerge from the final leg of David Bowie's 1974 tour...
  • David Bowie – ‘Cracked Actor’ live in 1974

    In this excerpt from the 1974 BBC documentary 'Cracked Actor', David Bowie performs the Aladdin Sane song 'Cracked Actor' at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles on the Diamond Dogs tour....
  • David Bowie Sweet Thing / Candidate / Sweet Thing live on the Diamond Dogs tour in 1974

    David Bowie – ‘Sweet Thing / Candidate / Sweet Thing’ live

    David Bowie performs 'Sweet Thing / Candidate / Sweet Thing' at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles on the 1974 Diamond Dogs tour....