Having given up on the UK and decamped to the USA, Davey boy was in the middle of his massive Diamond Dogs stadium tour. The beeb got a few interviews and filmed a show. The end result was the ‘Cracked Actor’ TV documentary. Filmed in 1974 and broadcast in early ’75, it’s the nearest thing that exists to a concert film of the Diamond Dogs shows.
Watching it is a very confusing experience, mostly because the film makers don’t explain what you are seeing. For one thing David Bowie seems out of his head or bored stupid and most of the footage of him seems to come from one interview in a car travelling to a gig. There are the usual interviewees including rapid fans and some very odd young Americans who seem to think the documentary is about them.
It’s neither insightful nor very interesting, and only worth watching for the live section in which the Bowster sings a song from inside a giant blue hand. OOOOH, that’s arty!
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