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  • after this, my life is (nearly) complete

  • This was probably asked and answered already... but why does he have the black eye and the bandage on his left hand?

  • @BW92116 Some say the brusied eye and the bandage around his hand was just a joke on his behalf, or statement about fashion in general, I don't know. I read once that it was a protest for something that was happing in 2005, but I dont know what...

  • This song requires an agonizing degree of passion/pain to sing right. It's a cry from hell. I don't feel it here. Sorry.

  • He projects such pathos. He seems like a poet/clown telling us about something that it pains him to tell us.

  • What an unbelievably sexy man and voice!

  • God

  • he has THE Voice. He's awesome, he has a special vibe that gives me shivers. Never getting old. I love Bowie

  • He was fighting in the danshal in think..

  • @missjuju1971 Fighting in the Dance Hall :3

  • Has he been to Mars?

  • The piano accompaniment is really good.

  • @Osboissa Rick Wakeman. Genius.

    

  • @Osboissa

    That would be Michael Garson, a stunning player with so many excellent groupsl

    With Bowie since the 70s!

  • He looks like he was in a car crash in this video

  • @AlexNWonderland1 Yeah I never noticed before, either that or he was in a fight!

  • He was my hero when I was 15. Now I know I was right.

    Always fresh... how does he do it?

  • pues decir ke es todo un gentelman de la nusica para mi casi ke la invento el simpre va por delante aportando y dejando y enrrikeciendo la musica y por eso es el ¡ duke !.

  • so what is doesn't sound like the original you ass.....it's about the song....

  • why does Bowie sing it 3 tones under the original song?

  • @cratippo Because he became 34 years older since Hunky Dory Released.

  • @cratippo Because he's older, his voice has gotten older as well, and this was right after his heart attack. That's why he is pretending to be hurt. The man is a fucking genious!!

  • I agree, SWL.

  • @Joeyoffthestreet A song with a music 'accompaniment'. youre mad I tell you , stark raving bonkers.

  • Bowie, the everlasting fashion icon, wore cropped tailored suit pants five years before GQ and all fashionistas adopted them as a look of their own. Long live the king.

  • David Bowie is the hippest man in the world, "still".

  • @Trexcookingfat haha thanks ! But I don't even possess anything resembling writing skills x) Bowie is just... inspiring !

  • Bowie ha sempre accompagnato i momenti belli e quelli meno della mia vita, ha rappresentato la colonna sonora una vita di sensazioni e di ricordi, anche nell'uscire di scena si è dimostrato unico ...grazie per le canzoni che ha creato.

  • How I love this song... Even Billie Joe ( Green Day frontman ) wants it played at his funeral. Bowie found the way to age with elegance, humility and dignity, and that's another proof of what a legend he is. He's not fucking dead. He's immortal.

  • Go Bowie. He is great. But cmon, there is more important things. Occupy Wall Street. Free Us... the people....

  • @jacklurcher No one wants to focus on sailors fighting against Wall Street, oh man, look at those rich men, go, it's the capitalist show....

  • the best

  • This is after his heart attack right

  • @SuperColinTV Yes, fairly close. He suffered an artery blockage in 2004 while on tour supporting his album "Reality". Hopefully he'll return to thrill us once again.

  • new bowie song I start the day with

  • No no per carità...solo un anno era passato dal Reality Tour, ma qui mi fa tristezza: ingrassato e incerto, mi viene da piangere. Ha fatto bene a non cantare più e non fare più musica. Grande.

  • notice how he's got a black eye and his left hand is wrapped in bandage 

  • @TheAstro30 In Paul Trynka's new David Bowie bio, David bowie: Starman, he explains that this was just an act to express his sympathy to the victim's of Hurricane Katrina. So he was all bruised and hurt representing the pain and loss of those who lost everything during/after that dreadful catastrophe: life, family, possessions, dignity... Hope I helped clarify this... I've noticed lots of people deeply concerned about his appearance in this video. :)

  • @TheAstro30 In Paul Trynka's new David Bowie bio, David bowie: Starman, he explains that this was just an act to express his sympathy to the victim's of Hurricane Katrina. So he was all bruised and hurt representing the pain and loss of those who lost everything during/after that dreadful catastrophe: life, family, possessions, dignity... Hope I helped clarify this... I've noticed lots of people deeply concerned about his appearance in this video. :)

  • At certain moments, he looks like someone beat the shit outta him?

  • Brilantní

  • Best song ever.

  • love love 

  • fantastic....

  • I remember this song in 1972 while dancing with my first girlfriend..nice...

  • This song typifies Bowie's approach to song writing. Cryptic lyrics with a stunning music accompaniment. I like to think that his songs should remain shrouded in mystery, just there to be discussed and not necessarily dissected and reassembled. Just sayin'.

  • @JoeyOffTheStreet I agree, if he were to reveal what his songs were acctually about, it would ruin people's brilliant fantasy that he has created and the way that many peoplehave been able to apply his lyrics to there own lives.

  • 1:23 <333333

  • Wow, it seems his requiem...

  • this man has true talent. too bad he doesn't perform much anymore. i'd love to see him live just once

  • ..Yeah, hey, what happened to his hand and his right eye?

  • @iiAmmychan It was makeup to express his sympathy to the New Orleans victims of the Katrina.

  • LOVE HIM, LOVE THIS PERFORMANCE. But he definetly should have skipped those cigarettes in the 70's.

  • @tokimasa121 if you think you will have the same voice that you have 40 years ago your kind of wrong

  • @ICanWatchVideosfor18 I don't. But I believe that the cigarettes have offered a bit to his hoarse voice.

  • every comment is useful...he comes from another world

  • He looks like he has a black eye and a cast on???

  • im crying

    why i dont know

  • @lostota i understand your feeling...

  • @lostota What happened to him??...

  • Oh, all of you over-produced so-called artists who can't perform live.....watch this man!! He will show you how it's done!! REAL talent. One of the greatest. 80 years from now people will still be listening to his songs. All the current Top 40 people will be forgotten.

  • Bowie is god abd the best! Who ever dislikes this is the biggest fucken idiot in the world and has no taste in music

  • It's just the humour to show up with black eye, bandaged hand and short pants at a Fashion Rocks show? That's our DB.

  • I love David Bowie, but did he write this song while high?

  • Does anyone know what this song is about?

  • Not see Bowie live would be my biggest disappointment ever.

  • 45 people live on mars :(

  • miss you man, come back a little while

  • just askin.. I know David's old and did suffer that heart attack but why does he look beaten up in this vid? black eye and bandaged hand? or were those just effects?

  • @ArtemisDecibal make-up

  • AMAZING!

  • Awesome, considering his heart-attack in 2004.

  • The best performer ever!!!

  • Oh, my poor thing! I'll still loving you...I can see you with my heart, not with my eyes...Your voice will be in my mind forever...

  • @markmarktarmann..Bowie set fashion trends for decades, voice of God, changes over &over, every girl wanted to fuck him, Space to LOM, to ZS, to DD, to all important trilogy (starts with LOW, which invents Dance/Rock years before Blondie or anyone, the stealth bomb Scary Monsters, fashion leader, really nice man, funny as shit, on an upswing has major heart attack, wife says:that's it, done Don't wan't you to die. Stops for love, and family..who the fuck are U, asshole

    sharrup and piss off dog

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  • i want him to sing with Seu Jorge :(

  • Man he got old.

  • @legendary7708 You'll be old too...if you're lucky.

  • GOD.

  • 45 mother fuckers live on mars

  • Lacrime agli occhi,brividi sulla pelle...ti amo David, i love you and I will love you forever...

  • Who Disliked this is a Twat

  • ¡OLÉ POR BOWIE!

  • 45 people would rather live on mars.

  • @TheAranethon yes, I heard he is retired now anywayz, i had to be born in the wrong year i'd love to see him in the ziggy starsdust tour! i want hair like his in 1972 era!

  • Love you forever David Bowie <3

  • i feel like crying

  • @tamarshabi I did when I saw this. Maybe it was a joke that he dressed so pathetically and looked beaten up. I love him because he is such a wonderful artist and has been a big part of my life as a fan.

  • Easily one of the greatest songs ever

  • @Interpolantics23 I certainly agree. Did you know however that it was inspired by My Way which was written by the French singer Claude Francois (named Comme d'habitude in fr) Bowie was asked to translate the lyrics but his were rejected and later he decided to write his own song using practically the same chords in the verse.....and how beautiful it turned out to be especially with Rick Wakeman playing the original version on Hunky Dory!

  • @Interpolantics23 could be the best, i like this more than bohemian rhapsody (and i'm a huge queen fan)

  • At 4:42, I said "Heil !"

  • im so sad he changed his style of music :(

  • @mrETOO22 then you've missed the point of david bowie

  • @mrETOO22 A bit too much techno these days for my taste, yes.

  • Mr. Bowie has one hell of a vocal range, esp in the baritone :)

  • It was just make up son. He wasn't really hurt. He's a showman

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  • what i would do to see this man live. AMAZING...

  • @Music92Love

    As a teen I won tix to see him perform his Serious Moonlight tour, I had always been a fan...since my 'rents were hippies of sorts.

    ...I found his androgyny and persona extremely sexy, but my best friend was more of a normal teen.

    She new little of him really, but she came along just to hang out with me.

    She fell hard. LOL

    Next time I went to her house she had removed Billy Squire from above her bed and now there hung in all his glory was David. ; )

  • @Music92Love I agree!!! We're the same age and I saw him many times in full Androgeny back in the 70s. :) I'd give a lot to see a performance now!!

  • WTF?Can't you put some make up on your black eye?Who BTFO David Bowie?

  • Sounds great as always but what's up with the bandage & black eye? Did someone says something crazy to Iman?

    Seems like he fought some sailors in the dance hall, look those cavmen go...

  • @JosephPeterH29 If you watch Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture, he does it then too. :) He's human.

  • i don,t think bowie will ever tour again, why should he, the man has nothing left to prove, his best performances are in the past. i don,t want to see him shuffling round the stage like elton john or rod stewart etc.

  • @n0rt0nj4zZ Me too. I totally agree with you. Music was just one of the several facets of Bowie. People do not understand this. The fact that he will never tour again or do an album not mean he will be stopped. He can do amazing other things and continue to impress and influence the world.

  • One of his last ever live performances...

  • @hippoforbreakfast i'm afraid, you're right...

  • One of history's greatest artists. This song is just so moving.

    Please tour again David.

  • If David Bowie Goes I am going to cry like forever and ever and ever!!!!

  • bloody hell this is good

  • Miss him Live!!  His beautiful voice lives on especially with this classic song!!

  • 43 people were frightened by "Mars Attack"

  • what is Mars?

  • what dose he know ?nout|

  • it's the best creative artist all over the world ! and so sensible and generous ! just a new album for his fans will be fantastic !! even if he doesn't make promotion or concert... just an album for people who loves him, they are so many...

  • classic fanfuckingtastic

  • 41 die

  • bowie is a true legend, but this performance makes me sad for him. I do hope he does,nt tour again for his own good. I would like to remember him from the reality tour of 04.

  • This is making me cry :'(

  • @jkjasminemc Yes, it is very touching.

  • Wow, I can't stand to see him looking like this after he was so sick...

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  • My favourite song (though it is almost impossible to choose one out of his outstanding oeuvre) by my all time favourite artist.

    But what happened to poor David ? Why those injuries?

    And what's the matter with the sound of the piano?

  • @ezaube1030

    Which injuries are you wondering about?

  • @LadyBowie1119 His right eye seems hurt - it looks like black around the eye and his left hand is bandaged ? Isn't that strange ? But, thankfully, there are some other and later videos here on youtube where he looks o.k. again and sings with a strong voice better than ever.

  • @ezaube1030 The injuries are faked... it's part of the allusion... all in jest for the song. If you search for when he performed with Arcade Fire in that same night, he's perfectly healthy.

  • @abe11825 aha, thank you for the information... but he seems pitiable, anyway.

  • @ezaube1030 You are welcome. :) That was the point (pitiable, ect). If I remember correctly, it was to bring the allusion of the general "brawl" feeling from the theatre to life.... as if he was the one struck down. It was literal, at best.

  • @abe11825 Interesting. But faked or not, it makes me sad. The saddest thing is that he has literally disappeared from the public. So I will go on searching whole youtube for the traces he has left, there are so many excellent things, it will take me lots of time to get through :-)

  • @ezaube1030 Agreed - it's interesting and he has, quite literally, disappeared from the public eye. However, there have been rumours flying around that there is an autobiography in the works, as well as a possible forthcoming studio album (although there was an article some months ago, saying Iman wants [prefers] him to have nothing more with recording; or at least have a VERY limited interaction). Who knows, though.... anything can happen!

  • @abe11825 Yes, I hope that there will be a beautiful surprise some day ....

  • @abe11825

    Okay, I'm sorry, but I CANNOT STAND IMAN! She may be married tot he most wonderfully gorgeous man in the world but she shouldn't tell him he can't do anymore recording or make him disappear from us. If David wants to record a new album LET HIM! I can't stand it that he's practically disappeared since his heart attack. He did a few things afterward but they were just small roles in films or television. I wish he'd come back to us whether Iman likes it or not!

  • @LadyBowie1119 It was in some online articles a few months back... aboout Iman not really wanting David to record and such. But who knows how much of it was actually true. But he's also got to feel comfortable, himself, in doing what needs to be done. I think that's why he's doing an autobiography... maybe this will be his way back in?

  • @abe11825

    I understand David himself needs to be okay with coming back; and maybe Iman will be fine with him coming back and doing new things. I certainly hope that his book will help him decide to come back to music and do new projects. I never got a chance to see him in concert or anything like that because I discovered him and his music AFTER he'd disappeared and would like the chance although he may not ever do anymore concerts even if he does come back with new material.

  • @LadyBowie1119 Agreed. I saw the Heathen and Reality Tours. They were AMAZING... he really was on the top of his game.

  • @LadyBowie1119 You are right. There are so many "starving" Bowie-Fans all over the world. We have become very patient and modest :-), just waiting for a little sign he will give us, any word he says or writes will do, someone as brilliant and creative and influential as DB has always got something to say, and he doesn't need to be beautiful and young forever... Good music or art in general is not a matter of age, he said that (not literally) himself in an interview once.

  • @ezaube1030

    David is the kind of man who can't sit still for very long he needs a project. That's why he did those smaller cameos in different movies and such after Reality. Yet, I haven't heard of anything else he's done so I wonder what he's been working on...

  • @LadyBowie1119 Who knows? I sometimes wonder if he maybe reads some of the things his fans write here on youtube and sits and chuckles to himself, or something like that :-)

  • @ezaube1030

    I always secretly hope he sees things fans write here and on other sites of his and realize just how much his fans miss him. Whether he wants to come back to us or not at least he'd know...

  • @LadyBowie1119 Oh yes, I hope that, too, he is so much beloved by his fans, he must recognize that somehow. There are so many hundreds and thousands of enthusiastic comments on him and his music here on YouTube; it is a pleasure to read them.

  • @ezaube1030

    Yes. I miss him so much. I'm beginning to think that he may never come back to us yet I can never give up hope...

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  • i love that song ! and YES we have live on mars xD

  • who the hell killed bowies cat?

  • PLEASE COME BACK!!! I already missed too much as a result of my damn some-35-years postponed birth... Please! D:

  • Grazie per quello che ci hai regalato-

  • He must've punched himself in the face. It's a perfect explanation.

    Also, this is divine.

  • nulla di più bello

  • He's got a black eye and a bandaged left hand in this vid?!

  • @reidnet

    That's rock 'n roll for you ;)

    I wonder what happened...

  • 35 Jusin Beiber fans disliked this

  • whatttt? i'm confused. he stopped performing in 2004 because of his heart issues..... so why is he performing in 2005? O-O

    its still cool, nonetheless.

  • aw poor baby!! he hurt his hand :(

  • I would like to see him in concert again... T.T

  • Nice song, nice artist, the BEST artist. His album and his talent miss... I would like to hear news songs . Just for your fans, please Mister Bowie, another record !!! Happy Birthday

  • @FabienneParis he'd make me sooooo very happy if all he did was some shows :) Of course, album would be wonderful, but i'd be just so joyous for some live performances. Just no words how happy that would make me :)