Film shows footage thought lost and speaks to singer’s early friends, collaborators and lovers
They were a “routine beat group” with a “strange choice of material” and an “amateur-sounding vocalist who sings wrong notes and out of tune”. In 1965 the BBC’s conclusion on David Bowie and his band was clear: “Nothing to recommend it.”
The thudding rejection of Bowie after a three-song audition has been unearthed for a revealing documentary to be broadcast next week on BBC Two, telling the story of his faltering journey to superstardom.
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