David Bowie Aladdin Sane Live 1974 Excerpt

This video is my attempt to make maximum use of the recently emerged 26 seconds of David Bowie live at the San Diego Sports Arena Diamond Dogs tour footage, discovered in the San Diego CBS 8 archives, and uploaded to their YouTube channel this week. Here the Aladdin Sane element of that 26 seconds has been combined with footage from one of the Universal Amphitheater performances a few days earlier, and some fanshot Super 8 footage from the New Haven show 2 months prior. Tragically, these few short sections are the only known footage in circulation of Bowie performing Aladdin Sane on the tour. The footage is synced to an excerpt of Aladdin Sane, from the 2017 album, Cracked Actor, recorded at the aforementioned Universal Amphitheater show. To fill in the gaps between the sections of footage, Ive added interview clips of Bowie in 1974, going through a trunk of his former stage clothes and talking about the elaborate Aladdin Sane costumes hed sported the previous year. Its a pity to fade Mike Garson s