DAVID BOWIE - 1984

[Andreasjacke1]

very special performance ---

[saganemc2]

Best version of this one, so ahead of his time. The best part of his style-never any bellbottoms, he was past them before they ever started!

[cloob1000]

during work today on the till at iceland this guys shopping was £19.84. of course when they asked how much it was i sang, 'nineteen eightyfouuuuur'. the guy looked so confused haha

[MrsFish7]

@cloob1000 ...... or well, you probably had to be there....

[MrKaddus]

Bowie rockin the shoulder pads LIKE A BOSS

[MEMZ2012]

If you need stage presence, this is the man to look for.

[Faktoran]

Found this video quite spontaneously. I'm from Russia I'm 16 years old. It is like the video even though nearly 30 years have passed ...

[CoIdHeat]

Damn those pants are high

[OldskolFan]

He is so talented...he's amazing! Great band too...

[brittanyisaketten]

part of being a skateboarder if you don't know or like david bowie , you won't really FEEL skateboarding

[Buckaroo5]

great video!! Luther Vandross is one of the back-up singers!

[LestHeBecomeAmonster]

wonderful hair

[edwigederer]

i love

[HobbyWizard]

I love this performance but damn, Bowie's vocal range was really limited during this time. Don't know if it was drugs, smoking more the usual or what....

[kad936]

Anyone notice the large backup singer over his shoulder ? Luther vandross!

[shaft4783]

Diamond Dogs from start to finish is probably his best work. I especially like the 30 year anniversary edition. Sweet Thing/Candidate/Reprise is just epic

[RisingAboveMyself]

Is it my imagination--or does Bowie Look remarkably similar to Peter Cushing?

[hoibsh]

@RisingAboveMyself If he does, it's a case of two of my idols in one person.

[98monkey89]

Seeing David like that makes me a bit sad. He's so skinny. Thank god he came out of it.

[SyzygyD]

Great performance. So glad to find a CD copy of Live at the Tower to replace my LP a couple of years ago. One thing: whenever I sang along, I went "beware the sounds in store, in 1984", correct I thought in theme and rhyme. One lyric site says 'sound mixture', most say 'hammer jaw', which makes no flippin' sense at all.

Hammer jaw, WTF?

[MrMAHBOI1]

@SyzygyD it's actually "beware the savage jaw"

[FIVECATSable]

the backing dancers outfits are special



[liveandmore]

OMG! He rocks! Bowie is out of this world!

[roxyquinn]

From the great period without doubt, well done people

[ultraviolentgeisha]

Bowie was obviously having serious problems with cocaine in the middle 70s, but his work in these troubled years... was just brilliant! Diamond Dogs is one of my favorite albums, and I think it's too underrated (most people just know Rebel Rebel). His performance in this video mesmerizes me. His voice, his spontaneity, his appearance...

[lastmile77]

I love to hear Bowie reinterpret his songs to fit his current style. To see a major difference watch 1984/Dodo from the 1980 Floor Show (didn't actually occur in 1980, 1973 I think) and then watch this. Besides the music, a move from Ziggy to anything is a major change. If I'm right about the date of the 1980 Floor Show this is a year later, probably less.

[MrMAHBOI1]

@lastmile77 no the '80 floor show was filmed in October of '73, this was december of '74. but for him to change like that so fast is sad.

[kahuna3901]

wooop wooop

[luneproducts]

Love his entrance.

[corcovado33]

When I am looking to that...and many others David BOWIE ' s videos...I am thinking...indenpendantly of him and his quite complex personality - even VERY cold sometimes ! -...than many of VERY FAMOUS PEOPLE WHO ARE THINKING THEMSELVES AS VERY HUGE ARTISTS FOR YEARS / MALE OR FEMALE...MUST HAVE TO QUIT THIS WRONG IDEA OF THEMSELVES....STRAIGHTLY, IMMEDIATLY !

This man SURELY '' is not God '' but he inspired SO MANY TRUE AND VERY GOOD ARTISTS DURING MORE THAN 40 YEARS RIGHT NOW !

LOT OF RESPECT !

[chrishay29]

aren't we glad we are out of the blizzard davi

[BigBossInc]

Love the shoulders!

[sallyfieldrequired]

great look here

[MGCooley]

Woah... quite the funky rendition.

[kahiso]

Look at the background singers, one is Luther Vandross, the big guy.

[MorbidReligion]

Diamond Dogs was GOLD, one of my favourite albums of all time. If only I could find it lying around somewhere.

[HACKERSUCK12121212]

bowie is amazing ! :)

[ghostsonatasong]

cocaine and milk,

he is still great.

[bimsie01]

What makes Bowie and his 800 different personas much different from Lady Gaga now?He took many of his style cues from the past,too.Im an old fart,but I like them both.So sue me.

[paulbanksbaby]

@bimsie01 Her music is uninspired and souless.

[devind01]

@bimsie01 you are spot on Lady gaga made ner name from Lady Stardust by our man and Queen Radio Gaga....shes playing the character card perfectly...the kiddies just haven't been around long enough to see it.....

[OJMAH]

I like 1:09 haha international chorus sup

[muskokan59]

This is the same rendition of his performance from 1974's "David Live" (David Bowie At The Tower Philadelphia) album,which pleases me very much!!

[tasopicollo43]

sorry i may sound ignorant saying this but is this about george orwell's 1984?

[PotOdd]

@tasopicollo43

kinda yes. (as far as i remember reading) bowie was writing a soundtrack for a musical adaption of GO's 1984. but the decendants didn't allow it. so some music made it on DD.

[dejahthoris]

@tasopicollo43 Having read 1984 the book around this time, ti was scary and 1984 was as far in the future to us then as 2020 is to us now.. and some of the stuff predicted in the book has happened, like cameras watching you all the time

[whangie1]

@dejahthoris Yes and a state of constant 'war' used to reduce civil liberties.

[foxypapi69]

Tina Turner covered it on her Private Dancer album... Excellent Version!

[starmansteveo]

this song will never leave my life.....!!!

[Jirlow]

Do anyone know if there is a vid uploaded here on YouTube when he does We Are The Dead? Surely the best song on the Diamond Dogs album.

Cheers to all Bowie fans!

[spookmonster52]

@Jirlow "We are the Dead" has been one of my all time favorite Bowie songs since I can remember... Unfortunately I'm positive that he did not perform it at all during the D-Dogs tour, and I'm pretty sure that he has never played it live.

[leonoel42]

@spookmonster52 yes your right he NEVER performed this song live. Shame really as it is one of the best songs on the DD album and one of his best. The lyrics are utterly fantastic. I think George Orwell would have approved even if his wife didn't ( she refused to allow Bowie to make a musical out of 1984).

[binitials]

Bowie is way up there with Jim Morrison and a couple of others. All the others are a waste of time. Never seen a man so cocked up though ha ha.

[absolutmeliss]

Holy shit, wow, this is a new side of Bowie I haven't seen. It's awesome that he wrote music to Orwell's 1984. WHY isn't he a huge part of our history lessons? This man has been through so many personas, he puts Britney Spears to shame.

[religilous1]

To all DUMBASSES. :This is 1974.The song is called 1984.

[glistnik]

masterpiece - side-effect of the cocaine.

[Eggs4Eva]

hot ;)

[Riobrigr]

simply brilliant!!!

[LittleMsJessiLove]

this truly screams 'BOWIE' he's really in his element and enjoying what he's doing. it's a great song and he has a hell of a reason to be proud of it. the performance is also one of the best i've seen of him, and i've seen most of 'em. thank-you so much for putting this video up ziggiestarlet

[TheAmbitiousOutsider]

thanks, this is really fantastic , one of the best Live tv performance of a solo-artist ever...I saw it a million times and never being bored. Diamond dogs is maybe one of his best work : t's amazing this new phase of his carreer after the glam period.

[MuddyTonic]

i like your pen-name

[DavidBowieloving]

wowowowowowowowowowowow!!!!!!!­!

[mrfarr]

I love LOVE this performance! Bowie is just mezmorizing - a unique prolific artist. Shame this tour isn't out on dvd!! I love all periods of bowie, but '74-'77 the transformation from diamond dogs, young americans, station to station and low. I just find facinating

[Sparkina]

@mrfarr Mesmerising is right :-)

[PackLeader1990]

Thats some of the best dancing I've ever seen.

[bartonone2005]

An amazing piece of pop history, along with Bowie are Luther Vandross, Carlos Alomar and Earl Slick. The whole band kicked ass! Bowie had already abandoned Ziggy and was transitioning to his blue-eyed soul Young American persona. This is a funkier rendition than the "Diamond Dogs" version of "1984," which is softened by a string section. The backing vocals here are the best, shades of "Young Americans."

[LittleMsJessiLove]

actually he officially abandoned ziggy in 1980 when he performed Sonny and Cher's "I Got You Baby", the whole thing was very emmotional

[27claudiaregina]

a unica grande lenda viva do rock, David Bowie

[pretzelberg]

Wicked backing band!

[999Atwood]

With the exception of Don Van Vilet.....Bowie is the most interesting artist. He's like a 100 people, always new, always creative...never ever boring.

[MmeLEnfer]

Bowie is one of the few very good white Soul singers - and I believe he is one of only a select few white artists ever invited to appear on the "Soul Train" show.

[violenthues]

dont do drugs children. bowie is lucky to come out of that alive and still beautiful.

[Codackussell]

Well... Dont do hard drugs... Excessively. Drugs to an extent have played a very important part in musical history. You know that though.

[fabziggy1]

@violenthues god



[TheBookWorm1718]

@violenthues  Totally, I read a couple of biographies and I came away with two questions, one, how does he have any hair left after that red hot red Ziggy look they had to use a potent dye for? and second, how did he come out of the 70s alive? If it wasn't the drugs, it was climbing 15 feet above the stage and jumping off, just missing hitting the piano, to the platform he was being lowered on snapping, to his manager crushing NoDoze for him to snort to perform. Lucky man to survive it all.

[JaemzStar]

@violenthues lol if he looks that good at 64 coming up 65 then imagine if he hadn't taken drugs xD

[MissionBowie]

Yum.

Soul Bowie=Awesome.

(:

[Zigaldiam]

superb video to a brilliant song.

waninghope,yes it is Luther :)

gr8 posting ziggiestarlet,many thanks :)

[ziggiestarlet]

Thanx sweetie.....you have the best taste of course!!!

[jannvalenzuela]

whiew - forgot how skinny he was then....

[waninghope]

Is that a young Luther Vandross located to the far left as one of the backup singers? I know he worked with Bowie on Young Americans LP. Can anyone enlighten me please cause it sure looks like him.

[seditionaries77]

Yup! That's Luther.

[waninghope]

Absolutely Incredible!! A coked up Bowie at his best but with incredible genius!! I have never seen this clip before. Diamond Dog days and pre Young Americans. Bowie is the beginning and the end of "alternative" music. This is pure brilliance.

[ih8tbush]

Who is guitarist besides Carlos Alomar?

[ician]

A very young Earl slick

[DelhiK]

Jesus, he was skinny back then. Looks like you could just pick him up and walk away with him!

...Wonder if any crazed fans ever tried that? :P Ahhhh, I probably would have tried! ;D

[spydergarbler]

OH...GOD...YES!!

[GlamBowie]

GRRR!!! ;D Bowie=Gorgeous! <3

[54spiritedwill54]

He is so cool!

[eddiemoon]

ohhhMAN!!! he looks fucking COOL!!

[sazerac1]

He was very thin before the drugs. He used to eat nothing but green peppers and milk.

[westbromrshit]

this isnt the 80s at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!its circa 75 6.and hes thin because of the coke ect

[sdav10495]

...the song is called "1984"

[BreakingGlass77]

december 1974

[BardleyCfan]

MY MOM main man lol love david though

[podfun30]

is he thin or what!!! cool artiste

[Sinthusized]

1984 is a book by George Orwell. David Bowie wanted to make it into a musical but George Orwell's wife would not give him the rights...That really sucks I'd rather see a disco musical of 1984 .. it would have made the book more interesting to read during english class

[kubabaluta]

totally eightees!

[karol1986]

You're damn right, brother ;).

[replicas79]

that was 1976 not in the 80's

[kakavouras]

this was 1974

[hotrats111]

that was 1974.....

[hyru913]

...the song's called 1984

[mashamorgan]

Coolest guy that ever walked the planet !!

[rijstevlaai]

I always have a hard time hearing what he sings in the refrain, the booklet that goes with Diamond Dogs days: ''Beware the savage lure of 1984'' But many internet lyrics say ''the savage JAW of 1984''

Which one is the right one?

Damn brilliant song by the way.

[hyru913]

probably the former

[EYEmusique]

awesome - he developed his voice so much in such a short time - I really like his tortured low bluesy soul style he does here... compare it to the ziggy whine in the "1980 floor show" vids from less than a year before... amazing.

[mawhinney2]

Quite right-the change was remarkable to say the least.

[IsabelleVD]

Thank you for uploading this!!

[laurentlaurent65]

Living Legend

[insaneforstuff254]

His voice rocks my socks!!!

Lol, so dumb, but

SERIOUSLY. He does such amazing things with his voice, and it's like he doesn't even have to try...

[theglamkinks]

weirdest of all bowies!yea

[iwasanangryyoungman]

Dang funky - love the Shaft-esque breakdown at the beginning!!

[defaultoasis]

bulls on!!

[glowstarrynight]

He is pure sex. Why is he so fantastic!!??????

[mashamorgan]

love David Sanborn !!

[bennythedog]

I´m sure that Bowie is dancing samba at 1:26 of this video.

[CaptainRockNRoll]

bringing soul and cocaine across the pond, and blowing people's heads off. nice one, david ;)

[jupitorman]

i hate him cuzz i want to be him he makes me sick cuz he is so fuckin cool

[SpammerOvTheGods]

Bowie was so wrecked on coke that he doesn't even remember making this album!

#@!

[PackLeader1990]

Bowie rules!!!

[matrags]

Eat some food maybe.

[mbracey69]

coke

[movinon5]

Holy sh*t he's out of it. (and still brilliant)

[archernetwork]

what a haircut...

[alley835]

He is so cool!

[mcvejic]

whatever happened to music!!!!!

this is music!!!!

[chinarise]

this one really rockssssssssssssssssssssssssss­ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss­ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss­ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss­ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss­ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss­sssssssssssssssssssssss

[Bearkiller72]

Beware the savage jaw! That and "V-2 Schneider" are my Bowie favs! He's a genius! What an artist...

[WhitneyGetz]

Alright! Sang it, bitch!

[peaceonearth777]

Beautiful man!

[Puzzle96]

Ooh, and I forgot to tell that I like his moves. And the stick insect-look he got in 74/75

[Puzzle96]

I have to find a jacket like that, too. maybe not as gigantic shoulder pads.

And I've tried to do my hair like that, but it just doesn't work. Not the Ziggy-look either. His hair must be really talented for styling.

[WhitneyGetz]

I used to have hair like that, you should see the look on the barber's face when a teenage girl asks for an exaggerated pompadour. Hey, I still looked "fish"...of course.

[DBCrowns]

Is that Earl Slick on guitar next to Carlos?

[mawhinney2]

He was 8 stone here ! Reckon this suit will be trendy in the autumn.

[BreakingGlass77]

Jesus Christ is he skinny here.

[boundless1986]

Yeah he has mentioned in interviews that 74-76 were bad years

[DBCrowns]

He's beautiful to me

[DBCrowns]

he put his heart and soul into this.

[ram15361]

good to see a young Luther Vandross there

[SexyGirl79]

I knew that was him, I just wasn't too sure.

[Kadajgirl020]

Thank you for sending me this DBCrowns. I love it!

[tortillas56]

woo david bowie

[DBCrowns]

OMG.. I remember this as a kid. Thanks Ziggiestarlet/I love his dance moves at 1:27

[nectarguru]

It is VERY hard to argue otherwise that Bowie is the greatest vocalist of the 20th century.

[augustusdes]

Bowie, totally insane and with a near fatal drug abuse problem still records brilliant music and plays brilliant shows. His best and weirdest period..

[RebelVoDKa]

Yes, and now he's clean and just does Tommy Hilfiger ads.

Get back on those drugs, Dave!!!!

[b4baby]

classic. still holds up 34 years since the song (and 24 years since 1984). ha.

[UnCommies]

I can't tell if it's the cocaine high or just Bowie's natural awesome dance fever that cause him to move like that.

[rosalin74]

'1984' is about a vision of the future with a backward idea.

[forzaaddict]

why did he make a song about the future, i dont get it, that hes making a song about 10 years into the future, and whores

[forzaaddict]

when was this song made??

[fissionmail3d]

It's from the 1974 diamond dogs album

[augustusdes]

Bowie looks like Satan himself here. What a fucking amazing performance..

[pagey29]

I love this song, I have it on dvd, I love the misheard lyrics for this on Bowiewonderworld- they say "beware the savage whore of 1984!" hahahaha! :)

[forzaaddict]

hes saying "beware the savage jaw,of 1984

[pagey29]

yes I know- I was saying that the misheard l;yrics on bowiewonderland says "whore"

[forzaaddict]

ooooo

[keith25658]

in my opinion this is the best 1984's version on youtube...and ,David Bowie need no cocaine to be the best,never

[clash22x]

He's fantastic!

[johnnymoondog]

I love the little nod to the band to drop in at 0.06 seconds. Classic performance !

[racyweb]

This song and performanceis amazing

[UnpersonHolyan]

Fuck yeah!

[OwenAK]

Where can I get some shoulder pads like that?

[jolivia]

Bowie's cocaine years.

[dotman76]

Everybody's cocaine years.

[xwsftassell]

Wow.

[edgarallanpoet]

Fucking awesome.