As i wrote in the notes for cracked actor live 74, the video footage is apart from earl slicks guitar solo is from the wonderful 1974 alan. He has spent his entire career at the bbc from where he stepped down as creative director in december 2015 and served as chairman of the board of trustees for kids company from 2003 until the collapse of the charity in 2015. The documentary was first broadcast on 26 january 1975 and titled cracked actor. Pennebakers concert film ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars, which had been shot at londons hammersmith odeon on 3 july 1973, as. First released earlier this year on vinyl only, some of this performance was featured in alan yentob s bbc documentary also known as cracked actor.
It was first shown on bbc1 on 26 january 1975 it was filmed in 1974 when bowie was struggling with cocaine addiction, and the documentary has become notorious for showing his mental state during this period. David bowie cracked actor live at the universal amphitheatre 09051974 cracked actor was originally a song from david bowies 1973 album, aladdin sane. In celebration of cracked actor, the live release from david bowies. A film about david bowie is a 1975 television documentary film about the musician david bowie, made by alan yentob for the bbcs omnibus strand. When bowie performed cracked actor on that tour, he donned a cape. In september 1974 the bbc filmed david for a documentary as part of the. Two limited edition david bowie albums due for record. In the meantime, ive taken the obvious easy road of first working on the footage from the 1974 alan yentob wonderful bbc documentary. Its heavy on material from diamond dogs and aladdin sane and finds a drugaddled bowie in a moment of transition. As i wrote in the notes for cracked actor live 74, the video footage is apart from earl slicks guitar solo is from the wonderful 1974 alan yentob bbc documentary, cracked actor. David bowie cracked actor 2015, ntsc code free, blurayr. Cracked actor was originally a song from david bowies 1973 album, aladdin sane.
Cracked actor is a 1975 television documentary film about the musician david bowie, made by alan yentob for the bbcs omnibus strand. David bowie cracked actor live at the universal amphitheatre 09 05. Like most of the older material played on that tour, cracked actor was rearranged to suit bowies new soul man direction. Alan yentob born 11 march 1947 is a british television executive and presenter. It was subsequently performed on the 1974 diamond dogs tour, and was included on the david live album.