David Bowie at the BBC

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

MUSIC: "Wild Is The Wind"

This programme contains scenes of repetitive flashing images.

# Love me, love me

# Say you do

# Let me fly away with you

# For my love is like the wind

# And wild is the wind

# Wild is the wind

# Give me more than one caress

# Satisfy this hungriness

# Let the wind blow through your heart

# For wild is the wind

# Wild is the wind

# Yo-o-o-o-o-u touch me

# I hear the sound of mandolins

# Yo-o-o-o-o-o-u kiss me

# Oh, with your kiss my life begins

# You're spring to me

# All things to me

# Don't you know

# You're life itself?

# Like the leaf clings to the tree

# Oh, my darling, cling to me

# For we're like creatures in the wind

# And wild is the wind

# Wild is the wi-i-i-i-nd

# Yo-o-o-o-u kiss me

# Ooh, and with your kiss my life begins, yeah

# You're spring to me

# All things to me

# Don't you know

# You're life itself?

# Like the leaf clings to the tree

# Oh, my darling, cling to me

# For we're like creatures in the wind

# And wild is the wind

# Wild is the wind

# Wi-i-i-i-ld is the wind

# Wi-i-i-i-i-ld is the wind

# Wi-i-i-i-i-ld

# Is the wi-i-i-i-i-nd. #

Ah, thank you.

I'm thrilled you could be here. That's great.

Mike Garson on piano, of course.

Let's have a lovely evening!

# Do you remember a guy that's been

# In such an early song?

# I heard a rumour from ground control

# Oh, no, don't say it's true

# They got a message from the action man

# I'm happy, hope you're happy too

# I've loved all, I've needed love

# Sordid details following

# The shrieking of nothing is killing me

# Just pictures of Jap girls in synthesis

# And I ain't got no money

# And I ain't got no hair

# But I'm hoping to kick

# But the planet is glowing, glowing, glowing, glowing

# Ashes to ashes, funk to funky

# We know Major Tom's a junkie

# Strung out on heaven's high

# Hitting an all-time low

# Time and again I tell myself

# I'll stay clean tonight

# But the little green wheels keep following me

# Oh, no, not again

# I'm stuck with a valuable friend

# I'm happy, hope you're happy too

# One flash of light, but no smoking pistol

# I've never done good things

# I've never done good things

-# I've never done bad things

-I've never done bad things

# I never did anything out of the blue

-# No

-No, no

# Want an axe to break the ice

# Want to come down right now

# Ashes to ashes, funk to funky

# We know Major Tom's a junkie

# Strung out on heaven's high

# Hitting an all-time low

# My mamma said, to get things done

# You better not mess with Major Tom

# My mamma said, to get things done

# You better not mess with Major Tom

# My mamma said, to get things done

# You better not mess with Major Tom

# My mamma said, to get things done

# You better not mess with Major Tom. #

Thank you!

That's Sterling Campbell on drums.

I just love it when... You know the kick, the foot?

When it's just, like, the top of the kit,

and then, boom, he brings the foot back in - that's so cool!

I love that!

CHEERING

Here's a song that I've been dying to do for a long, long time.

This is the first time we've done it on English soil.

It comes from the '80s. Yes, from the '80s!

I actually like this one very much - This Is Not America.

# This is not America

# Sha la la la la

# A little piece of you

# The little peace in me

-# Will die

-This is not America

# For this is not America

# Blossoms fail to bloom this season

# Promise not to stare too long

# This is not America

# For this is not the miracle

# There was a time

# A storm that blew so pure

# For this could be the biggest sky

# And I could have the faintest idea

# For this is not America

# Sha la la la la

# Sha la la la la

# Sha la la la la

# This is not America

# No, this is not

# Sha la la la la

# Snowman melting from the inside

# Falcon spirals to the ground

This could be the biggest sky

# So bloody red tomorrow's clouds

# A little piece of you

# The little peace in me will die

-# This is not America

-Oh, this is not the miracle

# There was a time

# A wind that blew so young

-# Oooh

-For this could be the biggest sky

# And I could have the faintest idea

# For this is not America

# Sha la la la la

# Sha la la la la

# Sha la la la la

# This is not America

# No, this is not

# Sha la la la

# This is not America, oh-h

# This is not

-# Oh

-Sha la la la

# This is not America, no

# This is not

# Sha la la la

# This is not America

# This is not

# Sha la la la

# This is not America

# This is not

# Sha la la la la. #

Thank you.

That was written with Pat Metheny for the excellent film The Falcon And The Snowman, which came out...

some time way back.

# Ba ba ba-ooh

# Ba ba ba-ooh

# Ba ba ba-ooh

# Ba ba ba-ooh

# Ba ba ba-ooh

# Ba ba ba-ooh

# Ba ba ba-ooh

# Ba ba ba-ooh

# I've nothing much to offer

# There's nothing much to take

# I'm an absolute beginner

# But I'm absolutely sane

# As long as we're together

# The rest can go to hell

# I absolutely love you

# But we're absolute beginners

# With eyes completely open

# But nervous all the same

# If our love song

# Can fly over mountains

# Can sail over heartaches

# Just like the films

# If there's reason

# To feel all the hard times

# To lay down the hard lines

# It's absolutely true

# Ba ba ba-ooh

# Ba ba ba-ooh

# Ba ba ba-ooh

# Ba ba ba-ooh

# Ba ba ba-ooh

# Ba ba ba-ooh

# Ba ba ba-ooh

# Nothing much can happen

# Nothing we can't shake

# Though we're absolute beginners

# With nothing much at stake

# As long as you're still smiling

# That's all I really need

# I absolutely love you

# Though we're absolute beginners

# And if my love is your love

# We're certain to succeed

# If our love song

# Can fly over mountains

# Can sail over heartaches

# Just like the films

# If there's reason

# To feel all the hard times

# To lay down the hard lines

# It's absolutely tru-u-u-u-u-e

# Ba ba ba-ooh

# Ba ba ba-ooh

# Ba ba ba-ooh

# Ba ba ba-ooh

# Ba ba ba-ooh

# Ba ba ba-ooh

# Ba ba ba-ooh. #

Well, thank you very much.

Coming right up to the '90s, apparently two of the more popular albums that we've done

have been Outside... CHEERING

..and Earthling. MORE CHEERING

So we'll do at least one from each. Here's something from Earthling.

One, two, three, four...

# Stinky weather, fat shaky hands

# Dopey morning, Doc, grumpy gnomes

# Little wonder, then, little wonder

# You little wonder, little wonder, you

# Big screen dolls, tits and explosions

# Sleepytime, bashful but nude

# Little wonder, then, little wonder

# You little wonder, little wonder, you

# Intergalactic, see me to be you

# It's all in the tablets Sneezy Bhutan

# Little wonder, then, little wonder

# You little wonder, little wonder, you

# Mars happy nation, sit on my karma

# Dame Meditation, sends me away

# Little wonder, then, little wonder

# You little wonder, little wonder, you

Hey!

# Sending me so far away

# So far away

# So far away

# So far away

# So far away

# So far away

# So far away

# So, so far away

# Aaaaah

# You little wonder

# Aaaaah

# You

# Sending me so far away

# So far away

# So far away

# So far away

# So far away

# So far away

# So far away

# So, so far away

# So far away

# So far away

# So far away

# So, so far away

# So far away

# So far away

# So far away

# So, so far away

# You little wonder

# Aaaah

# You little wonder

# Aaaah

# Mars happy nation, sit on his karma

# Dame Meditation, take me away

# Little wonder, then, little wonder

# You little wonder, little wonder, you. #

Thank you!

There's nothing like the oldies!

Thanks a lot.

OK, what shall we play now?

We'll dodge right back to 19...er...1970.

I'm very proud to have written this. It's been covered no end of times.

I guess, at the time, it was sort of a signature song for me.

This is Man Who Sold The World.

# We passed upon the stair

# We spoke of was and when

# Although I was not there

# He said I was his friend

# Which came as some surprise

# I spoke into his eyes

# I thought you died alone

# A long, long time ago

# Oh, no

# Not me

# I never lost control

# You're face to face

# With the man who sold the world

# I laughed and shook his hand

# And made my way back home

# I searched for form and land

# For years and years I roamed

# I gazed a gazely stare

# At all the millions here

# We must have died alone

# A long, long time ago

# Who knows?

# Not me

# We never lost control

# You're face

# To face

# With the man who sold the world

# Who knows?

# Not me

# We never lost control

# You're face

# To face

# With the man who sold the world

# O-oh

# Oh

# Oh

# O-oh

# O-o-oh

-# O-oh

-O-o-o-o-oh

# Oh

O-o-o-o-oh. #

Thanks very much.

CHEERS AND WHISTLING

An American song, needless to say.

Sorry, guys!

-ECHO:

-Is it any wonder?

# Fame

Fame

# Makes a man take things over

# Fame

Fame

# Keeps you loose, hard to swallow

# Fame

Fame

# Puts you there where things are hollow

# Fame

Fame

# Fame is not the flame

# It's just a game

# Enough to send you totally insane

Insane

# Fame

Fame

# Ooh

# Yeah

# Fame

Fame

# What you want is in your limo

# Fame

Fame

# What you get is no tomorrow

# Fame

Fame

# What you need you have to borrow

# Fame

Fame

# Hey

# Fame is mine, is mine

# Is just his line

# Not just in your manager

# Crime

Crime

# Yes

# Fame

Fame

# I'm tellin' you

# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

# Is it any wonder

# I reject you first?

# Fame

Fame

# Fame, fame

# Is it any wonder you are too cool to fool?

# Fame

Fame

# Fame, bully for you

# Chilly for me

# Gotta get a rain check on pain

# Pain

# Say it, fame

Fame

# Tell me about it

# Fame

Fame

Yeah

# Tell me about it

# Fame

Fame

Yeah

# Yeah

# Fame

# Come on in, suckers

# Fame

-ECHO:

-# Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame

# Fame, fame

# Fame

# Fame, fame, fame, fame fame, fame, fame, fame

# Fame

# Fame, fame, fame

# What's your name?

# Fame, fame

# Fame, fame, fame

# Hey!

# Fame, fame, fame, fame

# What's your name?

What's your name? What's your name?

# What's your name? #

Thank you very much.

Now, this is...

We've done this every kind of way.

We've done it as a march,

a rhumba, a tango,

a waltz,

and it still didn't sound right.

So we're going back to its original way, which sounds right.

So here's the right version of Stay.

CHEERING

# This week has passed me so slowly

# The days fell on their knees

# Maybe I'll take something to help me

# Hope someone takes after me

# I know there's a change in the weather

# This time I know we could get it together

# If you would stay here tonight

# Ah, that would be crazy tonight - stay

# That's what I meant to say, or do something

# But what I never say is, "Stay this time"

# I really meant to so bad this time

# Cos you can never really tell

# When somebody

# Wants something you want too-oo-oo, yeah

# Heart-wrecker, heart-wrecker, save me tonight

# Right can be vague when it sends someone new

# This time tomorrow I'll know what to do

# I know it's happened to you

# Stay

# That's what I meant to say

# Or do something

# But what I never say is, "Stay this time"

# I really meant to so bad this time

# Cos you can never really tell

# When somebody

# Wants so much to stay

# That's what I meant to say, or do something

# But what I never say is

# "Stay this time"

# I really meant to so bad this time

# Cos you can never really tell

# When somebody

# Wants something you want too

# You want too

# Oh

# You want too

# You want too

# Say it! Stay

# Stay, stay, stay, stay

# Stay, stay, stay

# Stay

# Stay, stay, stay, stay

# Stay, stay

# Stay, stay

# Stay

Oh, yeah

# Stay, stay, stay, stay

# Oh, yeah!

# Stay, stay, stay

# Stay

# Stay, stay

# Stay, stay

# Stay, stay, stay

# Stay

# Stay, stay, stay, stay

# Stay, stay, stay

# Stay

# Stay, stay

# Stay, stay

# Stay, stay, stay, stay, stay

# Stay, stay, stay! #

Earl Slick!

CHEERING

All right?

Can we do the sailor one now?

It's actually about a starman.

LAUGHTER Not a starman - a spaceboy!

I've got all that hardware on my mind.

# I got hardware on my mind... #

AS ELVIS PRESLEY: # ..I've got hardware on my mind...mind. #

One, two, three, four...

# Hallo, Spaceboy

# You're sleepy now

# Your silhouette

# Is so stationary

# You're released but your custody calls

# Well, I want to be free

# Don't you want to be free?

# Do you like girls or boys?

# Yeah, it's confusing these days

# But moon dust will cover you

# Cover you

# This chaos is killing me

# Bye-bye, love

# Bye-bye, love

# Bye-bye, love

# Bye-bye, love

# Yeah

# This chaos is killing me

# Hallo, Spaceboy

# You're sleepy now

# Your silhouette

# Is stationary

# You're released but your custody calls

# And I'm gonna be free

# Don't you wanna be free?

# Do you like girls or boys?

# It's confusing these days

# But moon dust will cover you

# Cover me

# This chaos is killing me

# Yeah!

# Bye-bye, love

# Bye-bye, love

# Bye-bye, love

# Bye-bye, love

# Tell me, tell me

# This chaos is killing me

# This chaos is killing me

# Bye-bye, love

# Bye-bye, love

# Good time love

# Sweet, sweet dove

# Bye-bye, Spaceboy

# Bye-bye, my love

# Moon dust will cover you

# Moon dust will cover you

# Moon dust will cover you

# Moon dust will cover you

# Moon dust will cover you. #

WHOOPING

Very, very nice.

Mark Plati on rhythm guitar will lead us into the next one.

Or do I leave it to the spaceboy over there?

# I've seen all the rest of the Hollywood highs

# The best of the last, the cleanest star they ever had

# I'm stiff on my legend

# Those films that I made

# Forget that I'm 50 cos you just got paid

# Crack, baby, crack

# Show me you're real

# Smack, baby, smack

# Is that all that you feel?

# Suck, baby, suck

# Give me some head

# Before you start professing that you're knocking me dead

# A-ah

# A-ah

# A-ah

# Oooh

# You found yourself some trick

# On Sunset and Vine

# But since he pinned you, baby, you're a porcupine

# He sold you illusions for a bagful of cheques

# You've made a bad connection cos I just want your sex

# Crack, baby, crack, Show me you're real

# Smack, baby, smack Is all that you feel

# Suck, baby, suck Give me some head

# Before you start professing that you're knocking me dead

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Oh, yeah

# Crack, baby, crack

# Show me you're real

# Smack, baby, smack Is that all that you feel?

# Suck, baby, suck

# Give me your head

# Before you start professing

# That you're knocking me dead, yeah

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Crack, baby, crack

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Smack, baby, smack

# Oo-ooh, oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh Crack, baby, crack

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Smack, baby, smack

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Smack, baby, smack

# Ah-ha

# Ah-ha

# Ah-ha

# Crack, baby, crack

# Ah-ha

# Ah-ha

# Ah-ha

# Smack, baby, smack

# Oo-ooh

# Oo-ooh

# Oooh. #

CHEERING AND WHISTLING

On my right, Earl Slick on guitar.

Mike Garson on keyboards.

Mark Plati on guitar. Sterling Campbell on drums. Gail Ann Dorsey on bass and vocals.

Holly Palmer on vocals and bongos. And Emm Gryner on sampler, clarinet

and vocals. HE PANTS

This is one of those pretend-that-we're-leaving-you songs.

One, two, three, four...

# Uh-uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh-uh

# Johnny's in America

# Low Tech's at the wheel

# Uh-uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh-uh

# No-one needs anyone, they don't even just pretend

# Uh-uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh

# Johnny's in America

# I'm afraid of Americans

# I'm afraid of the world

# I'm afraid I can't help it

# I'm afraid I can't

# I'm afraid of Americans

# I'm afraid of the world

# I'm afraid I can't help it

# I'm afraid I can't

# I'm afraid of Americans

# Johnny's in America

# Uh-uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh-uh

# Johnny wants a brain Johnny wants to suck on a Coke

# Johnny wants a woman

# Johnny wants to think of a joke

# Uh-uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh-uh

# Johnny's in America

# Uh-uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh-uh

# I'm afraid of Americans

# I'm afraid of the world

# I'm afraid I can't help it

# I'm afraid I can't

# I'm afraid of Americans

# I'm afraid of the world

# I'm afraid I can't help it

# I'm afraid I can't

# I'm afraid of Americans

# Oh, yeah

# Uh-uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh-uh

# Johnny's in America Johnny looks up at the stars

# Johnny combs his hair

# And Johnny wants pussy and cars

# Johnny's in America

# Uh-uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh-uh

# Johnny's in America

# Uh-uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh-uh

# I'm afraid of Americans

# I'm afraid of the world

# I'm afraid I can't help it

# I'm afraid I can't

# I'm afraid of Americans

# I'm afraid of the world

# I'm afraid I can't help it

# I'm afraid I can't

# Yeah, I'm afraid of Americans

# I'm afraid of the words

# I'm afraid I can't help it

# I'm afraid I can't

# I'm afraid of Americans

# God is an American

# God is an American

# And God is an American

# But wait - there's more

# God is an American

# God is an American

# God is an American

# God

# God is an American

# O Lord, I'm afraid of Americans

# I'm afraid of the world

# I'm afraid I can't help it

# I'm afraid I can't

# I'm afraid of Americans

# I'm afraid of the world

# I'm afraid I can't help it

# I'm afraid I can't

# Yeah, I'm afraid of Americans

# I'm afraid of the words

# I'm afraid I can't help it

# I'm afraid I can't

# I'm afraid of Americans. #

Thank you very much from all of us.

Subtitles by Hugo Allen and Janet Zimmermann, BBC - 2000

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