This is part one of a 2 hour ‘desert island discs’ type programme that Davie Bowie recorded and was broadcast on 20th May 1979. There is no interviewer. Just a slightly self conscious and sometimes awkward Bowie who plays the music that he liked and influenced him up to that period in time.
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Review of Bowie’s New York Concert from May 23rd 1978
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A smaller review of the Earls Court outing from July 3rd 1978 is here
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