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Old 29th January 2019, 07:42 AM
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'Holy Grail' of David Bowie footage is found: first Ziggy Stardust TV performance unearthed | The Telegraph

"David Bowie’s Top of the Pops appearance as Ziggy Stardust in July 1972 is regarded as a seminal moment in music history.

But few people remember that Bowie actually made his television debut as Ziggy a month earlier, singing Starman on an ITV teatime show called Lift Off with Ayshea. The performance was believed lost to history when the tapes were accidentally wiped.

Almost half a century on, a recording of that first appearance has been unearthed. A member of the public came forward to say they had captured the show on computer tape, a forerunner of VHS.

It is now being restored with the aim of showing it in a forthcoming BBC documentary, David Bowie: Finding Fame."


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