David Bowie: Rai5 dedicates two evenings to him with the documentary “Finding Fame” and the concert film “Ziggy Stardust”

Ten years after the death of David Bowie, Rai5 dedicates two evenings to the Thin White Duke.

Tonight, January 9, at 11:50 pm, “David Bowie: Finding Fame” airs: the five formative years of Bowie's career, from the late Sixties to the “death” of Ziggy Stardust announced on stage in 1973.

Saturday, January 10, at 11:20 pm, “Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars” will air instead, a concert film made for the show David Bowie held at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on July 3, 1973 (later streaming on RaiPlay).

The documentary film “David Bowie: Finding Fame,” directed by Francis Whately, follows five formative years of David Bowie's career, from the late Sixties to the “death” of Ziggy Stardust announced on stage in 1973. Featuring previously unseen archival interviews with some of the London artist's earliest collaborators.

Francis Whately offers a new in-depth look at the early days of David Bowie's career, from the David Jones era to the dawn of Ziggy Stardust. The documentary features unheard audio recordings and archival footage - including a 1965 BBC audition by David Bowie and the Lower Third performing “Chim-Chim-Cheree” and “Baby, That's a Promise” - along with exclusive interviews with Bowie's first cousin and lifelong friend Kristina Amadeus, former girlfriend Hermione Farthingale, longtime producer Tony Visconti, Spiders from Mars member Woody Woodmansey and influential choreographer Lindsay Kemp.

“Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” is the concert film made for the show David Bowie held at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on July 3, 1973.

Shot on 16mm by D.A. Pennebaker, then remixed by Bowie and Tony Visconti in 1981, the film documents the final concert of the tour that cemented the success of the London dandy with the Spiders from Mars, the band that accompanied him during this period, and that handed down to rock history his alter ego Ziggy Stardust, the androgynous, flamboyant character he created for his 1972 album “The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars”. A film that represents a historic moment in Bowie's career, at the end of his glorious glam arc, as well as a classic of music documentary filmmaking.

Here is the setlist from that historic concert:

Hang On to Yourself

Ziggy Stardust

Watch That Man

Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud

All the Young Dudes

Oh! You Pretty Things

Moonage Daydream

Changes

Space Oddity

My Death

William Tell Overture

Cracked Actor

Time

The Width of a Circle

Let’s Spend the Night Together

Suffragette City

White Light/White Heat

The Jean Genie ft. Jeff Beck

Love Me Do ft. Jeff Beck

Around and Around ft. Jeff Beck

Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

Speaking of the Ziggy Stardust era, Parlophone Records recently released a monumental box set dedicated to that period of David Bowie's career. It's titled “Rock'n'Roll Star!” and contains 5 CDs and 1 Blu-Ray, with 29 previously unreleased tracks, including early demos, outtakes, alternate versions, recordings by David's band The Arnold Corns, rehearsals at Bowie's then-home Haddon Hall, BBC sessions and live performances.

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