DAVID BOWIE - 1984 / DODO - ( The 1980 Floor Show) - 1973

[cathoderoy]

Did anybody else notice how this is pieced together from a number of different takes? When there's a distant shot he sometimes doesn't have a tambourine, but he does in close shots...I think the audio is consistently from "take 2", though...

[artemisia1947]

I love "The 1980 Floor Show!" I wish I would have been there too...

[doorsfan58]

Just about the only guy that can make a mullet look cool!

[Modz3]

David Bowie é Modz.

[capablemachine]

Bowie looks better in drag than Gaga does as a woman.

[moefitt]

I was in junior high and stayed up to watch it. I was no where close to doing any drugs at that age but my mind was blown. Never forgot it...so glad to have found it again.

[femguy]

@moefitt how lovely we were in the uk with only the stills of it and the realisation.nice memory.

[linorf]

I like it when he says Dodo DAW DAWW

[eddyiloveu]

This is so Cool!!

[eddyiloveu]

Excellent..Bowie was so far sighted regards songwriting then...

[eddyiloveu]

brilliant!..bowie was way ahead of the pack re: music...:)

[whangie1]

Ah classic bowsers just before the cocaine madness began to take a serious hold!

[DrJTG]

Singing 1984 about a book about the future that was written in 1949 in the year 1973, well David we now all know it wasn't fiction. You knew it too.

[DrJTG]

Yea, agreed I saw this live and it was etched in my memory. It freaked me out when the pulled off his Kumono.

[modbeatlefan]

i praticulary like the outfit after it got ripped off

[RHNarrator]

I saw this when it first aired.



[MrAttPatt]

Wow! Never knew he'd ever done this one live. Thanks for posting !!!

[DanBlabbers]

He looks so intense and determined

[likespic]

Over 30 years ago I had seen this video on the "Midnite Special" it was breathtaking then and it stuck in my mind THAT long. I recently tried to search it down and by all miracles found it fully intact. It is as breathtaking today as it was then. Ziggy Stardust was Bowie at his best. I always found DODO and Panic in Detroit to be untouchable entertainment.

[jorgel0124]

is that mick ronson? 

[TheGEEman60]

@jorgel0124

Yep. good ol' Ronno; God bless his soul in Rock 'n Roll Heaven

[Bowiefan1214]

It's so much fun to watch bowie perform as Ziggy, I really wish I had been around then.

[rationibus]

This was a better version of 1984 than the one that later appeared on Diamond Dogs.

[davidbryan05]

I'm 10 again! Me Mum HATED this man. EVERYTHING about him. His shoes, his clothes, his (lack of) eyebrows! didn't help any that I dress like him . Me poor Mum God rest her soul!

[jackdelawack]

Aynsley Dunbar burning up the drumset!!!!

[blackkat77]

his outfit is awesome!

[LadyEdgar]

This version of "Dodo" is so much more energetic than the recorded one, and it's better in my opinion! Bowie is consistently thrillingly amazing.

[JasonBNYC]

@LadyEdgar Actually, there are 2 studio versions of Dodo . . . the one that comes in the middle of the alternate version of 1984 is equally awesome, but I agree that the short one is more lifeless.

[algae1128]

@LadyEdgar I agree! It's so much more passionate and powerful. I can still remember staying up late and watching this when it was first aired in 1973. Pretty much changed my life.

[Gerschanel]

@LadyEdgar i agree the recorded one lacks alot of energy and even though the melody is good you still dont get that kick from it .

[LadyEdgar]

AMAAAAAAZING, "who could ask for more?" from Bowie of course.

[RonNYC100]

hard to believe i once had that haircut, not to mention my hair colored like that.

[WashingtonBeUpInThis]

He rocked the mullet better than most.

[leonoel42]

@RonNYC100 my haircut ala Ziggy got me expelled from school!

[gotbugplz]

@leonoel42 really? I had one, They let me stay.

[lizzardpoodle]

I like how they had to slow down his spontaneous undressing.

[WILLOW5033]

spontaneous? I don't know it looks like it was planned. Or maybe the back-up dancers just couldn't help themselves

[MmeLEnfer]

Pardon?

[antheaize]

This is one unbelievable wonder! I've read that Bowie, over everything, make also the drawing for his dress!

[adizltk]

0:53 Now that's the way Dave gets undress- grab and pull! :-D

[Stroboskop]

Makes me wish that 1984 musical had been done...

[venisfurs]

I remember seeing this concert with my friends in 73, we thought we were so coooool!

[pattipapp]

Same here.......lol.....We were!

[adamheart85]

WOW, Ava Cherry sounds REALLY off key in long portions of this song. Sounds like she's really struggling to hit the notes or as though she can't hear herself.

[dejahthoris]

@adamheart85 she is a great singer, but Bowie used cacaphony in his songs- this is the way he wanted it sung- you will hear this type of background singing on pinups too

[ironbuttermilk]

@adamheart85 Yeah, she really ruins it.

[highhat2]

It's Anysley Dunbar of Frank Zappa and later Journey, etc. Love his playing style.

[squizcarter]

the mans a genious

[SidGrey]

that's not sly dunbar, the drummer in background is white

[1liquidlen]

It's correct he's white....A. Dunbar is white! He played in Bowie's Pinups and Diamond Dogs records and the 1980 Floor Show was made between these LPs

[SidGrey]

whose that drummer

[Eidelmania]

The thin duke

[jacksonfilm]

funny that they've bleeped out 'screwed', but kept the lyric about shooting up.

[glitterJunkie72]

totally fab . :D

[evi3lynni3]

Thanks for the blast from the past. I was 19 when I first watched this on TV. I thought I'd never see it again. Ahh yes, the good old days when rednecks didn't know what a mullet was.........:)

[kelve2000]

this version is way better than the diamond dogs version

[woodyt56]

I remember that Friday night in 1973. I was a 16 yr old busboy at Flaming Pit restaurant, and when Midnight Special came on with Bowie, everybody in the place went into the bar to watch it.

[mloaks]

is that earl slick with ronno on gtr? rare...

[zaynzaynzayn]

really dig this version of 184

[satyr68]

Um, is someone going to release this thing on DVD?

[PopCultureKid9]

i prefer this song with the Dodo part, rather than without like on the album

[thegirl44]

The Sound and Vision boxed set had an excellent studio version of the entire song.

[nectarguru]

You can tell Ronno's on his way out here. He doesn't look into it at all.

[WashingtonBeUpInThis]

Great video, thanks for sharing!

[silmalila]

thanks washingtonbeup for sending!

[funkmanchu]

Where did we go wrong? What happened to music and its world. Where is David or Bob Marley or......

[DanBlabbers]

@funkmanchu Music isn't about meaning anymore, people listen but don't really listen. They make their own interpretations.

[fantasticvoyages]

He was pretty weird for such a commercially successful star