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David Bowie: Finding Fame

Documentary following five years of Bowie's early career, from the late 1960s through to the on-stage death of Ziggy Stardust in 1973 and features never seen before archive interviews with some of Bowie's earliest collaborators.

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Francis Whately

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BBC Studios,BBC Music

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1 win

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Geoff MacCormack

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George Underwood

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John 'Hutch' Hutchinson

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Gail Ann Dorsey

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That there has always been a history of the outside - David Bowie: Finding Fame

That there has always been a history of the outside

Once upon a time your father my father - David Bowie: Finding Fame

Once upon a time your father my father

♪ Fashion! - David Bowie: Finding Fame

Just say where you came from?
David Robert Jones... - David Bowie: Finding Fame

Just say where you came from? David Robert Jones...

♪ There's a starman - David Bowie: Finding Fame

♪ There's a starman

I need some really quick changes
on the encore today. - David Bowie: Finding Fame

I need some really quick changes on the encore today.

MUSIC: I Can't Explain
by David Bowie - David Bowie: Finding Fame

MUSIC: I Can't Explain by David Bowie

Were you writing songs in this
period? Not very good ones. - David Bowie: Finding Fame

Were you writing songs in this period? Not very good ones.

I never asked Jesus for a thing no - David Bowie: Finding Fame

I never asked Jesus for a thing no

And this was David's fourth go,
in terms of bands, - David Bowie: Finding Fame

And this was David's fourth go, in terms of bands,

But David of course had his own
agenda, where it was going to - David Bowie: Finding Fame

But David of course had his own agenda, where it was going t...

♪ Baby loves that way - David Bowie: Finding Fame

♪ Baby loves that way

Looking back on it, it just
felt like a lot of fun at the time, - David Bowie: Finding Fame

Looking back on it, it just felt like a lot of fun at the ti...

Greetings, pop pickers,
it's Pick Of The Pops! - David Bowie: Finding Fame

Greetings, pop pickers, it's Pick Of The Pops!

There are some songwriters that are just commentators - David Bowie: Finding Fame

There are some songwriters that are just commentators

At one point, David said, - David Bowie: Finding Fame

At one point, David said,

David lived in Sundridge Park, - David Bowie: Finding Fame

David lived in Sundridge Park,

Love never came into it which thank God you know - David Bowie: Finding Fame

Love never came into it which thank God you know

I think there's a passion - David Bowie: Finding Fame

I think there's a passion

You find yourself in the middle of two worlds - David Bowie: Finding Fame

You find yourself in the middle of two worlds

So London was magnetic for us. - David Bowie: Finding Fame

So London was magnetic for us.

And um it was quite quiet - David Bowie: Finding Fame

And um it was quite quiet

I think there's a passion for most people - David Bowie: Finding Fame

I think there's a passion for most people

♪ Two and two are four - David Bowie: Finding Fame

♪ Two and two are four

I really am open to influence
and new ideas, - David Bowie: Finding Fame

I really am open to influence and new ideas,

I don't think David
lacked confidence in himself. - David Bowie: Finding Fame

I don't think David lacked confidence in himself.

I really am open to influence and new ideas - David Bowie: Finding Fame

I really am open to influence and new ideas

I was one of the first kids in Britain to have the Velvet Underground album - David Bowie: Finding Fame

I was one of the first kids in Britain to have the Velvet...

To me - David Bowie: Finding Fame

In a way David is also very clever - David Bowie: Finding Fame

In a way David is also very clever

♪ There is a happy land - David Bowie: Finding Fame

♪ There is a happy land

There's nothing cool about The Laughing Gnome - David Bowie: Finding Fame

There's nothing cool about The Laughing Gnome

David used to do his performances
on the windowsill over there, - David Bowie: Finding Fame

David used to do his performances on the windowsill over the...

The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper
unfortunately - David Bowie: Finding Fame

The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper unfortunately

The idea of writing sort of short stories - David Bowie: Finding Fame

The idea of writing sort of short stories

I've always been a very curious
and enthusiastic person. - David Bowie: Finding Fame

I've always been a very curious and enthusiastic person...

Somehow I knew that what I was doing was important - David Bowie: Finding Fame

Somehow I knew that what I was doing was important

I've always been a very curious and enthusiastic person - David Bowie: Finding Fame

I've always been a very curious and enthusiastic person

Ching-A-Ling was based on David's
12-string, his travelling piano. - David Bowie: Finding Fame

Ching-A-Ling was based on David's 12-string, his travel...

He'd try one thing,
try another, things didn't... - David Bowie: Finding Fame

He'd try one thing, try another, things didn't...

And there are always
people that say, - David Bowie: Finding Fame

And there are always people that say,

But I had also said to myself, - David Bowie: Finding Fame

But I had also said to myself,

Song Of Norway was a big MGM
spectacular which needed dancers - David Bowie: Finding Fame

Song Of Norway was a big MGM spectacular which needed dancer...

Oh, God, yes, my heart broke. - David Bowie: Finding Fame

Oh, God, yes, my heart broke.

He'd try one thing try another - David Bowie: Finding Fame

He'd try one thing try another

♪ When I'm five - David Bowie: Finding Fame

♪ When I'm five

I think one of the reasons
he was so very good as a child, - David Bowie: Finding Fame

I think one of the reasons he was so very good as a child,

Yes everything hurts me very much I'm very sensitive - David Bowie: Finding Fame

Yes everything hurts me very much I'm very sensitive

I think he was vulnerable - David Bowie: Finding Fame

I think he was vulnerable

DRUMS ENTER - David Bowie: Finding Fame

♪ Ground Control to Major Tom... ♪ - David Bowie: Finding Fame

♪ Ground Control to Major Tom... ♪

♪ This is Ground Control
to Major Tom - David Bowie: Finding Fame

♪ This is Ground Control to Major Tom

I related it to myself a lot more - David Bowie: Finding Fame

I related it to myself a lot more

David wanted it because he wanted it - David Bowie: Finding Fame

David wanted it because he wanted it

I think the isolation of the film 2001 - David Bowie: Finding Fame

I think the isolation of the film 2001

Erm... - David Bowie: Finding Fame

I thought Well gee I am Major Tom - David Bowie: Finding Fame

I thought Well gee I am Major Tom

And another new thing it had on it - David Bowie: Finding Fame

And another new thing it had on it

Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare - David Bowie: Finding Fame

Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare

I missed him terribly. - David Bowie: Finding Fame

I missed him terribly.

But they said You'll never write another song - David Bowie: Finding Fame

But they said You'll never write another song

♪ I still don't know what
I was waiting for - David Bowie: Finding Fame

♪ I still don't know what I was waiting for

♪ Find out what's gnawing at me - David Bowie: Finding Fame

♪ Find out what's gnawing at me

♪ That I spent a lot of time
on education... ♪ - David Bowie: Finding Fame

♪ That I spent a lot of time on education... ♪

Angie, when I met her,
was this free spirit. - David Bowie: Finding Fame

Angie, when I met her, was this free spirit.

NORTHERN ACCENT:
Mick came from Hull. - David Bowie: Finding Fame

NORTHERN ACCENT: Mick came from Hull.

My new band was called Hype. - David Bowie: Finding Fame

My new band was called Hype.

But I think I was getting nearer to what I wanted to do - David Bowie: Finding Fame

But I think I was getting nearer to what I wanted to do

♪ Who knows? - David Bowie: Finding Fame

I was having to create
a bill out of nothing, - David Bowie: Finding Fame

I was having to create a bill out of nothing,

Terry probably gave me - David Bowie: Finding Fame

Terry probably gave me

Insanity was something that I was terribly fearful of - David Bowie: Finding Fame

Insanity was something that I was terribly fearful of

Every arrangement we did - David Bowie: Finding Fame

Every arrangement we did

I thought you died alone - David Bowie: Finding Fame

I thought you died alone

MUSIC: Five Years
by David Bowie - David Bowie: Finding Fame

MUSIC: Five Years by David Bowie

I was uh trying to be a one man revolution - David Bowie: Finding Fame

I was uh trying to be a one man revolution

Oh changes - David Bowie: Finding Fame

The artist is strictly a figment - David Bowie: Finding Fame

The artist is strictly a figment

♪ Doo doo doo-doo-doo - David Bowie: Finding Fame

♪ Doo doo doo-doo-doo

♪ Hey, baby, listen to me - David Bowie: Finding Fame

♪ Hey, baby, listen to me

To make the kind of breakthrough I needed - David Bowie: Finding Fame

To make the kind of breakthrough I needed

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Documentary following five years of Bowie's early career, from the late 1960s through to the on-stage death of Ziggy Stardust in 1973 and features never seen before archive interviews with some of Bowie's earliest collaborators.

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Director: Francis Whately

Writer: N/A

Production: BBC Studios,BBC Music

Genre: documentary

Year: 2019

MetaScore: N/A/100

ImdbRating: 7.2

BoxOffice: N/A

Released: 09 Feb 2019

Awards: 1 win

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