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David Bowie . 6-23-71
Solo performance :vocals, guitar, keyboards.
Bowie
was originally scheduled
to go onstage on the 22nd, but as usual , the timeline was shot to hell and
Bowie eventually performed this brief set on the 23rd at dawn. Although he was
supposed to play solo, he was joined on harmonies briefly by a tripped out scandanavian
lady who felt like joining in (much to Bowie's amusement ).
Mysteriously, he is completely left out of the film,( perhaps he did not give permission for his performnace to be used ) but there is a still an outside chance that his set is mouldering somewhere in a vault waiting to be discovered .
Julain Temple throws light on why Bowie wasn't in the film
“Yeah, he is wonderful,
David Bowie. The Holy Grail would have been footage of him at the first one,
because I saw that. When he performed in ’71 it was very early in the
morning. I was asleep and this big bloke shook me awake, saying, ‘Wake
up, you got to see this guy’, and the whole festival, which was much smaller
then, was waking each other up saying, ‘You’ve got to see this guy.’
So it was the moment, or a moment, when everyone was turned on to what Bowie
really was. He’d had Space Oddity a few years before as a one-off, freak,
novelty type hit, but he wasn’t a star at all. And there he was in a dress,
long hair, and just a guitar, sun coming up . . . it was magical. So if there
had been footage of that . . . There is sound of it, actually. I don’t
know why we couldn’t use it.”
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