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AdAge: Watch David Bowie, 17, Punk the BBC in His First PR Stunt
One of the videos being shared today as the world remembers David Bowie is this grainy clip of his first television interview, as a teenager, when he went by Davie (or Davy) Jones. On a November 1964 broadcast of the BBC’s “Tonight,” he was introduced by host Cliff Michelmore as the 17-year-old founder of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-Haired Men. He’s surrounded by other long-hairs, and complains that “the last two years we’ve had comments like ‘Darling!’ and ‘Can I carry your handbag?’ thrown at us, and I think it just has to stop now.” Many people don’t seem to realize the appearance was a PR stunt.
