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David Bowie: Finding Fame

I really am open to influenceand new ideas, and old ideas as well. I don't put a block on...

I really am open to influence
and new ideas, and old ideas as well. I don't put a block on things. ♪ ..dear Mistress
and cure his heart... ♪ I was one of the first kids
in Britain to have the Velvet Underground
album. I know that for a fact because somebody had brought me back
a demo copy of it before it was even released
in America. The Underground were, I thought,
the most incredible sound. There was this sort of mixture of
rock and avant-garde, and the combination was so brutal

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I really am open to influence and new ideas,
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and old ideas as well.
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I don't put a block on things.
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♪ ..dear Mistress and cure his heart... ♪
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I was one of the first kids in Britain
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to have the Velvet Underground album.
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I know that for a fact
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because somebody had brought me back a demo copy of it
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before it was even released in America.
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The Underground were, I thought, the most incredible sound.
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There was this sort of mixture of rock and avant-garde,
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and the combination was so brutal.
Duration
36 seconds
Views
60
Timestamp in Movie
00:22:12
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.