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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
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That clip brought back a lot of memories; it is from a TV Special Bowie did for the US weekly late night music program,
Midnight Special in 1973; it was filmed in Soho at the Marquee Club, an old haunt of Bowie's; there were problems with the production since Bowie, who by this time was more used to live gigs in large arenas and venues, seemed to have forgotten just how small the Marquee actually was; it also had a rather low ceiling and made some of the hoped for cinematic effects Bowie desired difficult if not impossible...
Bowie's band included Mick Ronson and a couple of other holdovers from the Spiders From Mars band Bowie had broken up a few months before, Guests on the show included The Troggs and Marianne Faithful. The bit of dialogue between Bowie and Amanda Lear is actually a slightly modified recitation of the first meeting of Alice and The Caterpillar from Lewis Carroll's
Alice In Wonderland book...
The song,
Sorrow, appeared on Bowie's Pin Ups, an album of song covers of titles Bowie admired and enjoyed as a fan; Bowie's cover of
Sorrow was based on the 1966 recording by The Merseys (formerly The Merseybeats) on which studio musicians played including one half of the future Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones), and future Cream bassist, Jack Bruce...
The Merseys' recording was itself a cover; the song was originally recorded by the US band, The McCoys, in 1965; it was B-side on the McCoys' second single; The MCCoys had a hit with the song Hang On Sloopy; notable on this recording of
Sorrow: the guitarist is Rick Derringer who would later go on to have a solo hit with the song
Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo; Derringer and the McCoys evolved into Johnny Winter's backing group, And, as in Johnny Winter
And...
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