BBC announces David Bowie: The First Five Years documentary film


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Another ‘Five Years’ David Bowie documentary is in the BBC pipeline.

This edition, entitled The First Five Years, will be broadcast in the UK on BBC Two next year after BBC Four airs highlights of Bowie’s celebrated 2000 Glastonbury headline performance later this month.

The documentary film is the final part of a trilogy from producer and director Francis Whately, and will go all the way back to 1966 soon after David Jones changed his name to Bowie. “Making this trilogy has been an incredible experience for me, unearthing rare recording, footage and archive, and the privilege of speaking to so many of his friends and collaborators who were so open in talking about the Bowie they knew, loved and admired so much,” Whately remarks.

“He is possibly now even more famous in death than in life and I hope this film will bring some new understanding to this great artist from the early years of his incredible life.”


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