Fwd: Great BBC Biography of Bowie's Work of the Last Five Years

[Daniel Mattingly]

Hi, Dan here (U.K. academic, Pynchon-L lurker). I watched this documentary
last night, and I can vouch for it being very good. Excellent use of
archive footage, interviews with key players, and commentary from Bowie
himself via various bits of audio and other stuff. There was definitely
some fresh/lesser seen archival stuff, particularly of the pre-fame sixties
and murky mid-70s period, including footage of the Diamond Dogs tour
including mime/dance choreography on stage (!!).

It was very moving in places, when you realized just how far Bowie had come
by the time he began working on his last projects, but also how far he felt
he had yet to go...

Best,

Dan

On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088ktm6
>
> Unfortunately, "due to licensing limitations," these programs can only be
> viewed within the British Empire, in fact, within England, if I read it
> right. (There's a wall)
>
> Of  course, many in North America have the software for slipping around
> regional limitations.
>
> If this is not one of your current abilities and you are very interested
> in getting the normally brilliant analysis BBC offers in the ARTS, contact
> me offline. Perhaps I can help.
>
> -Allan in WV where we've yet to figure out why Lou Reed married a woman
> (one young fellow recently explained it to me this way "Lou got really
> screwed up when he got off heroin and all that")
>
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