:01:38. > :01:39.his music career spanned decades and he was an icon
:01:40. > :01:48.Huw Williams explores his influence and impact.
:01:49. > :01:57.He was Ziggy Stardust. He constantly reinvented himself in music,
:01:58. > :02:02.appearance and sexuality. He wrote the soundtrack to our lives. I am 43
:02:03. > :02:07.years old now. He had been making music for seven years before he came
:02:08. > :02:22.onto the planet. I have known his views at all my life. I discovered
:02:23. > :02:27.the Ziggy Stardust album. You could put on a T-shirt or a leather jacket
:02:28. > :02:33.and stand in front of The Mirror and pretend you were in deep purple. But
:02:34. > :02:38.suddenly this otherworldly being was beamed down from another planet. You
:02:39. > :02:43.could not go to a High Street store and buy the clothes that David Bowie
:02:44. > :02:49.was wearing. It was unthinkable to where any kind of make up. He seems
:02:50. > :02:55.like an alien from another planet. Over his career David Bowie Sauls
:02:56. > :03:02.140 million albums and influenced generations of musicians. Jim care
:03:03. > :03:10.openly admits that simple minds would not have existed if it were
:03:11. > :03:17.not for the music of David Bowie. Radiohead, July and July, the human
:03:18. > :03:21.league, Spandau Ballet, the list is endless of groups who would not
:03:22. > :03:28.exist if it had not been for David Bowie. He saw himself as an actor or
:03:29. > :03:29.an artist, not a rock and roll star but he has left an unparalleled
:03:30. > :03:44.musical legacy. There is a sadness but the songs are
:03:45. > :03:49.the reason why we cannot be too sad. The songs are still with us. There
:03:50. > :03:53.are children who have been bored today into a world that the longer
:03:54. > :04:00.has David Bowie in it but they will be able to see a the songs. Who
:04:01. > :04:05.knows what an release material is still in the vaults. Expect to see
:04:06. > :04:09.albums of outtakes and alternative versions of well-known songs but
:04:10. > :04:13.also expect to see David Bowie continue to influence new bands. The
:04:14. > :04:18.fact that he challenged perceptions of what it was like to be a man or a
:04:19. > :04:25.woman, to be gay or straight, to be an artist, to be creative, that is
:04:26. > :04:34.his long lasting legacy and that will go beyond music. He was a true
:04:35. > :04:39.artist. And you can be sure that David Bowie will be back at the top
:04:40. > :04:46.of this week's album charts with Blackstar, released two days ago on
:04:47. > :04:55.his 69th Earth Day. You had the sense that David Bowie had said
:04:56. > :04:59.everything he wanted to see and his most recent statement was precision
:05:00. > :05:13.tools to be his final statement. He knew the end was coming. He created
:05:14. > :05:16.work which put a full stop on that career.
:05:17. > :05:18.I'm now joined by Geoff Ellis, the music promoter who's behind
:05:19. > :05:21.the T in the Park music festival and by Andrea Mullaney,
:05:22. > :05:34.He is the man that got away from you. He had had a heart attack the
:05:35. > :05:45.week before. I always hoped that one day we would get him back. I always
:05:46. > :05:53.put the call in. But the answer was he was not going to play live again.
:05:54. > :06:03.But you never give up hope. That was in 2004 but it was cancelled. We had
:06:04. > :06:15.a great that year. It was a strong though. But to lose David Bowie, he
:06:16. > :06:33.was special. It would have been the pinnacle of the festival's Kadir. --
:06:34. > :06:42.of the festival's career. Everybody has been so influenced by
:06:43. > :06:49.him. Talking about the influence that he had. People older than us
:06:50. > :06:56.have been saying that he changed the way they thought and looked at the
:06:57. > :07:01.world. He feeds them in a sense. It has been interesting to hear that.
:07:02. > :07:09.What has been interesting is that it is coming in different ways from
:07:10. > :07:16.different age groups. People who were teenagers in the 1970s, he was
:07:17. > :07:20.a figure of liberation. In the 1980s he was something else. People who
:07:21. > :07:26.are young to date, the impression I get is that he means something very
:07:27. > :07:31.talent to them. Unlike a lot of artists of the 1960s and 1970s such
:07:32. > :07:39.as the Rolling Stones who are so very popular, they do not speak to
:07:40. > :07:43.this moment in a way that David Bowie continued to do. He was still
:07:44. > :07:48.releasing new material until the end and whether you like it or not he
:07:49. > :07:54.has something to say about today's society. Also the post-modern
:07:55. > :07:59.element in his work, the way he took from every where. He used
:08:00. > :08:07.influences. That fits in with a time which is about remixes and
:08:08. > :08:10.remodelling the past. He had that sense of being on the cusp of the
:08:11. > :08:18.culture that not a lot of other artists had. With the constant
:08:19. > :08:23.reinvention, you see artists like Madonna and Justin Bieber, but David
:08:24. > :08:35.Bowie was the first person to do that. Getting rid of the Ziggy
:08:36. > :08:45.Stardust damage, the pinnacle of that success, the constant
:08:46. > :08:49.reinvention. The single from his last album is one of his best ever
:08:50. > :08:56.pieces of music. And what was so great about the The Next Day album
:08:57. > :09:03.was dead played on his own past. He was an artist who knew where he sat
:09:04. > :09:13.in the culture. He was able to make an album which was about the myths
:09:14. > :09:21.of his own career. And Blackstar which was released on
:09:22. > :09:30.Friday was prophetic in a way. Even in his own death he has made an
:09:31. > :09:35.artistic statement. It is a phenomenal album. I started playing
:09:36. > :09:42.it on Friday. It is a great piece of work. You watch the video for
:09:43. > :09:47.Lazarus. It is prophetic. It is reminiscent of the last Johnny Cash
:09:48. > :09:54.single which somehow summed up his entire career in one video. It is
:09:55. > :09:58.not an easy album in general. People will now read into it all sorts of
:09:59. > :10:03.things to do with the fact that he had this illness that we did not
:10:04. > :10:07.know about. But there is probably more to it than that and it will
:10:08. > :10:12.take a while to let its significance come out. That is broadly true of
:10:13. > :10:21.the career of David Bowie in general. Over the decades we will
:10:22. > :10:26.see more of what he meant to the culture, of how he changed culture.
:10:27. > :10:36.That great catalogue, people will discover it. Early material. Heroes.
:10:37. > :10:41.Low. People who grew up in the 1980s with Let's Dance. We will have to
:10:42. > :10:47.leave it there. Thank you. Now Golden Years is
:10:48. > :10:49.the favourite Bowie track of the Scottish Secretary,
:10:50. > :10:50.David Mundell. In a speech today,
:10:51. > :10:52.he was essentially looking forward to a golden time for devolution -
:10:53. > :10:55.Holyrood 2.0, as he called it. With the transfer of new powers,
:10:56. > :10:58.he's calling for the Scottish government to take the emotive
:10:59. > :11:00.and important decisions on such things as new welfare powers
:11:01. > :11:03.and calling for the third sector to call for the changes
:11:04. > :11:06.they want to see. I asked him if it seemed
:11:07. > :11:21.as if he was passing the buck, I am not passing the back. If you
:11:22. > :11:25.are going to criticise and bring up grievances with existing policies
:11:26. > :11:29.you have got to set out what you would do differently. How you would
:11:30. > :11:36.pay for that. What changes you would meet. This is about responsibility.
:11:37. > :11:40.It is also about accountability. I am happy that we have different
:11:41. > :11:44.policies in Scotland on welfare for example if that is what the people
:11:45. > :11:47.of Scotland want. But those parties that advocate that have got to tell
:11:48. > :11:51.the people of Scotland is what they are going to do and where the money
:11:52. > :11:56.is going to come from. It says that you are trying to stir things up,
:11:57. > :11:59.maybe cause problems for the Scottish Government. You are calling
:12:00. > :12:05.on the third sector to meet the case to the Scottish Government. There is
:12:06. > :12:11.a huge change coming. We are going to see the opportunity in welfare
:12:12. > :12:15.for us to shape in Scotland are own welfare system, a completely
:12:16. > :12:20.different system in some respects from what we have in the rest of the
:12:21. > :12:24.UK. I think that those in the third sector should get involved in that
:12:25. > :12:30.debate. If they want to see change, if they do not want to just see the
:12:31. > :12:36.status quo, we have got to get involved in this debate. It will not
:12:37. > :12:39.be devolution as I think people would envisage it is the Scottish
:12:40. > :12:43.Government simply do what the Westminster Government do with some
:12:44. > :12:46.bells and whistles. They have got the opportunity to do something
:12:47. > :12:52.completely different in many areas of welfare so we need to have that
:12:53. > :12:55.debate. As you made your speech the SNP have been pointing out there is
:12:56. > :13:01.no fiscal framework in place for these powers. There is no financial
:13:02. > :13:06.deal for the new powers. More discussions on Friday. Will it be a
:13:07. > :13:10.fair deal for Scotland? I am optimistic about reaching a deal on
:13:11. > :13:16.the fiscal framework. John Swinney and Nicola Sturgeon have said they
:13:17. > :13:19.are also. They want to reach that Agreement. We want an Agreement that
:13:20. > :13:21.is fair for Scotland and for the rest of the UK and I am confident we
:13:22. > :13:31.can achieve that. The Institute for Fiscal Studies
:13:32. > :13:39.said these debates are taking place behind closed doors. White and may
:13:40. > :13:42.not be debated in public? When we have agreement on the fiscal
:13:43. > :13:46.framework that will be open to scrutiny in the Scottish Parliament,
:13:47. > :13:49.the House of Commons and House of Lords. Everyone will have the chance
:13:50. > :13:55.to scrutinise and debate what has been agreed in the fiscal framework.
:13:56. > :14:00.I do not think there is any argument, realistic argument, that
:14:01. > :14:04.it will not be open to proper scrutiny. It is appropriate, it is a
:14:05. > :14:11.matter discussed between governments and there will no -- there will not
:14:12. > :14:17.be a running commentary. I'm confident we can get the agreement
:14:18. > :14:22.and will ensure it is properly scrutinised by both parliaments. And
:14:23. > :14:27.when will the Europe referendum he, there has been a lot of talk about
:14:28. > :14:29.it being perhaps in June, how would that play with the Scottish
:14:30. > :14:35.Parliamentary election the month before? As secular state I made it
:14:36. > :14:40.clear it was not acceptable there was any suggestion that the European
:14:41. > :14:44.referendum took place on the same day as the Scottish Parliament
:14:45. > :14:51.elections. If the Prime Minister can reach a deal in relation to his
:14:52. > :14:55.re-negotiation with the EU then it is right that we have the referendum
:14:56. > :15:01.as soon as is practical. That could be in June or later in the year. I
:15:02. > :15:05.think the people of Scotland and of the UK are entitled to have their
:15:06. > :15:10.say as to whether we remain part of the EU and to make their judgment in
:15:11. > :15:14.relation to the re-negotiation the Prime Ministers achieved. Your
:15:15. > :15:18.Cabinet colleagues will have their say, how will it feel campaigning
:15:19. > :15:21.for one side when some of your Cabinet colleagues are campaigning
:15:22. > :15:26.for the other, what does that mean for the principle of collective
:15:27. > :15:29.responsibility? Everyone knows the EU is a matter on which some people
:15:30. > :15:35.feel strongly one way or the other. People will campaign in or out
:15:36. > :15:40.regardless of the results of the re-negotiation. My view will be
:15:41. > :15:43.formed by the re-negotiation, I'm confident the Prime Minister will be
:15:44. > :15:48.able to reach a deal to improve our relationship with the EU, improve
:15:49. > :15:52.the way in which Scotland and the rest of the UK interact with the EU
:15:53. > :15:56.and on that basis will be able to argue for a the UK and Scotland
:15:57. > :16:00.remaining within the EU. Thank you. Let's debate some of these issues
:16:01. > :16:03.further with the Labour MSP James Kelly and from Aberdeen
:16:04. > :16:16.we have the SNP MSP Mark McDonald. Good evening. Rod McDonald, it looks
:16:17. > :16:21.like the Scottish Secretary is doing a bit of staring, urging the third
:16:22. > :16:26.sector to come up with proposed changes which are government would
:16:27. > :16:29.have to pay for. I'm sure the third sector will be interested to hear
:16:30. > :16:34.the Scottish Secretary asking them to do this given they have been
:16:35. > :16:42.engaged in these discussions and debates for some time now, both
:16:43. > :16:44.during the 2014 referendum was discussion about what would happen
:16:45. > :16:49.if Scotland became independent and have powers over the welfare state,
:16:50. > :16:55.through to the Smith Commission itself and then following the Smith
:16:56. > :17:01.Commission through the Scotland process. I'm not sure where the
:17:02. > :17:04.secretary has been through this process but the third sector have
:17:05. > :17:08.been engaged in the debate and discussion taking place. The
:17:09. > :17:14.Scottish Secretary baby is now saying you have the power, you know
:17:15. > :17:17.have the responsibility to stop -- you now have. And you may have to
:17:18. > :17:22.make tough decisions. We do not yet have the power. We need to wait for
:17:23. > :17:27.the fiscal framework discussions to be concluded, we are about to start
:17:28. > :17:32.taking evidence on that on the committee on which I sit. The
:17:33. > :17:35.Scottish Government have set out already had their agenda in terms of
:17:36. > :17:39.the new powers that could come whether through reforms to the work
:17:40. > :17:43.programme, the announcement that there would be a social security
:17:44. > :17:47.Bill early in the next Parliament, so in all these areas the Scottish
:17:48. > :17:52.Government is setting out its thinking or giving an indication of
:17:53. > :17:55.when its thinking will be set out in advance of the election. I'm not
:17:56. > :17:59.sure where the Scottish Secretary has been touring the past few months
:18:00. > :18:05.but he has certainly not been listening. James Kelly, your
:18:06. > :18:11.opponents are setting up their thinking on new powers, we heard
:18:12. > :18:14.from Keswick Dugdale, some policy issues, as the First Minister
:18:15. > :18:20.pointed out last week, they're meant to be paid for from savings from Air
:18:21. > :18:26.Passenger Duty. It cannot all come from the same pot. This is an
:18:27. > :18:32.exciting time in Scottish politics, we will get more power and parties
:18:33. > :18:36.at the election will have to flush out policies on how to pay for
:18:37. > :18:41.those. Kes yet Dugdale has been doing that with a speech tonight,
:18:42. > :18:50.she has made it clear we would support a policy of a top rate of
:18:51. > :18:57.50p for top earners. Those earning above ?150,000 a year. We heard that
:18:58. > :19:02.before, but what else would you be doing with these new powers, what
:19:03. > :19:05.are your suggestions? It is important to spell out that policy
:19:06. > :19:12.because we can see the gap in attainment widening. This is an
:19:13. > :19:22.opportunity to address that. That is what we will do with these powers.
:19:23. > :19:26.In addition, 1 million days are lost through children living with
:19:27. > :19:33.homelessness. We set out a policy to address that and to ensure that
:19:34. > :19:37.first-time buyers have additional grants of ?3000, to get more people
:19:38. > :19:43.on the housing ladder and release more homes so we do not have young
:19:44. > :19:48.children living with homelessness. That is a scandal in modern
:19:49. > :19:53.Scotland. A 50p top tax rate, Mark McDonald? The Scottish Government
:19:54. > :19:58.have announced and agreed by more than one occasion a 50p rate would
:19:59. > :20:03.be introduced and this is within the power of the parliament to do that.
:20:04. > :20:07.There is no disagreement on that as a 50p rate in the current climate is
:20:08. > :20:11.something Nicola Sturgeon is on the record as saying would be
:20:12. > :20:16.introduced. And that would be in your manifesto for the next
:20:17. > :20:21.election? The manifesto is not written yet but we have given clear
:20:22. > :20:26.indications in relation to that in terms of what we would do. For other
:20:27. > :20:30.policy areas, we set out a number of welfare policy areas, the abolition
:20:31. > :20:34.of the bedroom tax, an increase in the carer 's allowance. Other
:20:35. > :20:37.elements as well to the welfare powers that come under the control
:20:38. > :20:42.of the Scottish Government we would look to flesh out in due course. I'm
:20:43. > :20:47.interested as always to hear the view of the Labour Party. Of course
:20:48. > :20:51.the Labour Party at the moment are trying to spend the same pot of
:20:52. > :21:01.nonexistent money in a number of different areas. Well it is all
:21:02. > :21:07.coming from a pot of nonexistent money? We will raise the top rate of
:21:08. > :21:13.tax for top earners, that would raise ?70 million. We will also not
:21:14. > :21:18.raise the threshold of top earners, which George Osborne is doing, that
:21:19. > :21:24.would raise up to half ?1 billion over the lifetime of the parliament.
:21:25. > :21:29.In addition to the challenges of APD money, ?125 million, and ?250
:21:30. > :21:33.million. These are significant sums of money and we will use these sums
:21:34. > :21:40.of money to address the attainment gap in education to build more homes
:21:41. > :21:43.and secure more jobs in Scotland. Thank you both very much.
:21:44. > :21:45.Arlene Foster has taken over from Peter Robinson
:21:46. > :21:47.as First Minister of Northern Ireland.
:21:48. > :21:48.Among those congratulating her was the Prime Minister,
:21:49. > :21:52.who tweeted he was looking forward to working with her.
:21:53. > :21:54.At 45, the DUP member is also the youngest person
:21:55. > :21:58.This report from BBC Northern Ireland Political
:21:59. > :22:04.Correspondent Chris Page contains flash photography.
:22:05. > :22:07.Striding downstairs to go up to the highest office.
:22:08. > :22:15.The new DUP leader was about to become First Minister.
:22:16. > :22:20.Arlene Foster was asked probably the easiest question she has ever
:22:21. > :22:25.Mrs Foster, are you willing to take up the office of First Minister?
:22:26. > :22:28.Thank you very much, Mr Speaker.
:22:29. > :22:31.I affirm the terms of the pledge of office as set out in schedule
:22:32. > :22:35.It sounded rather technical but it officially marked her
:22:36. > :22:39.There was a time she would not have believed it.
:22:40. > :22:41.As a young girl growing up in rural Fermanagh,
:22:42. > :22:45.the most westerly constituency in the whole of the United Kingdom,
:22:46. > :22:48.in the days when we were plagued by terrorism and decisions
:22:49. > :22:51.affecting our fates and our futures were taken far away,
:22:52. > :22:55.I could not have dreamt that I would be in this position today.
:22:56. > :23:01.Is it any wonder that in politics I believe nothing is impossible?
:23:02. > :23:03.Watching Mrs Foster reach the pinnacle of her career
:23:04. > :23:50.I hereby resign the office of First Minister with confidence
:23:51. > :23:52.that the political institutions we have together created will be
:23:53. > :25:16.Hear, hear. significant, the DUP are attrition,
:25:17. > :25:23.moulded around Ian Paisley and then Peter Robinson and they never had a
:25:24. > :25:30.woman in the head of their party. It will be interesting to see how
:25:31. > :25:34.significant that is. She is seen as a pretty hardline candidate, she has
:25:35. > :25:39.already refused to go to the official commemoration for the 1916
:25:40. > :25:45.Easter rising. That will alienate part of the electorate in Northern
:25:46. > :25:48.Ireland. Whether her being a woman and saying she is progressive and
:25:49. > :25:51.saying that she is a mother and brings a different perspective,
:25:52. > :25:58.whether that plays out remains to be seen. Just to ask about the trade
:25:59. > :26:03.union bill in a minute, but we have this clip from Lord Faulkner. Labour
:26:04. > :26:08.fears annual income could drop because the legislation requires
:26:09. > :26:12.members, union members, to opt in rather than opting out. Here is Lord
:26:13. > :26:16.Faulkner the Shadow Justice Secretary. Do you think it is right
:26:17. > :26:20.that the amount of funding coming from the unions to a political party
:26:21. > :26:29.should be attacked in a piece of legislation? I do not. What to think
:26:30. > :26:34.of people having to opt in property and physically rather than its just
:26:35. > :26:39.being there, the money being collected? It is all Labour need at
:26:40. > :26:42.the moment, what financial structural problems to heap on board
:26:43. > :26:49.all the other problems they have ongoing at the moment. It is a clear
:26:50. > :26:52.attack on the structural support the Labour Party has relied on for such
:26:53. > :26:59.a long time. It has cemented the link between organised labour and
:27:00. > :27:04.the Parliamentary party and now it has been chucked away and people are
:27:05. > :27:09.being made aware of it and also disagree having to sign a piece of
:27:10. > :27:13.paper saying I want to support the Labour Party. You can imagine lots
:27:14. > :27:17.of situations under which people would say I do not think that is
:27:18. > :27:22.something I want to do, I think it is bad news for the party. The
:27:23. > :27:28.former head of the UK civil service has criticised this legislation.
:27:29. > :27:34.Lord callously. He thinks it is draconian. It is but it was Ed
:27:35. > :27:38.Miliband who came up with something similar to this to a three years
:27:39. > :27:44.ago. It is not been a great day for Labour. The GMB union have said if
:27:45. > :27:50.there is a removal of support from Trident they will not support that,
:27:51. > :27:55.jobs would be at risk. So Labour are losing union backing out on the
:27:56. > :27:58.other side will lose union funding but they still do not have any
:27:59. > :28:08.progressive policies to save this is how we will fight this. David Bowie,
:28:09. > :28:12.what are your memories? Going to see him in Murrayfield in 1983 and
:28:13. > :28:15.looking at the crowd are so many people there that I felt sick and
:28:16. > :28:21.even had to go home! I listened to the rest of it from the Garden of my
:28:22. > :28:26.flat out it was still magical. An incredible figure. How he could
:28:27. > :28:31.transform himself consistently and still be successful. And to carry on
:28:32. > :28:39.up until his death still producing new music. He never did the I have
:28:40. > :28:44.got Ballymoney to pay tour, he never went to the jungle, he kidding -- he
:28:45. > :28:49.continued to do his thing throughout his career. So admirable. He was
:28:50. > :28:55.ahead of the curve a lot of the time. He was, he spoke a lot about
:28:56. > :29:05.literature and Premy I think the day should not go without acknowledging
:29:06. > :29:11.how much he loved Viz. Anyone who loves the body humour of that gets
:29:12. > :29:16.the thumbs up. And he was an international figure as well, able
:29:17. > :29:20.to crack the American market and have success in Germany as well.
:29:21. > :29:24.Tributes across Europe and in Berlin today, where he spent a bit of time.
:29:25. > :29:42.He shared a flat with Iggy Pop. He worked with so
:29:43. > :29:47.many artists, written music with them, his influence is enormous and
:29:48. > :29:51.that is something we will see, we will re-examine with his death and
:29:52. > :29:57.look at how far does tentacles reach into culture.
:29:58. > :30:00.Shelley will be here at the same time tomorrow.
:30:01. > :30:03.For now, let's close the programme tonight with some
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