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

Ching-A-Ling was based on David's12-string, his travelling piano. You know, that's what he...

Ching-A-Ling was based on David's
12-string, his travelling piano. You know, that's what he used
all the time to write on and as long as he stayed on
that instrument, songs were going
to come out that way. There was... You know, you can't play rock riffs on a 12-string. You just can't

Full Transcript

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Ching-A-Ling was based on David's 12-string, his travelling piano.
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You know, that's what he used all the time to write on
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and as long as he stayed on that instrument,
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songs were going to come out that way.
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There was... You know, you can't
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play rock riffs on a 12-string.
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You just can't.
Duration
18 seconds
Views
54
Timestamp in Movie
00:46:20
Uploaded
Jun 17, 2025
Genres
Production
BBC Studios,BBC Music

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Movie Summary

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.