Broadcast live on the 15th December 1979 in New York, David Bowie performed "The Man Who Sold the World" on Saturday Night Live, with extraordinary guest appearances from Klaus Nomi and Joey Arias. Bowie was lifted and positioned in front of the microphone by Klaus and Joey in a costume that rendered him immobile, while his man-handlers provided extraordinary backing vocals.
This was an important broadcast and it seems to have had a similarly persuasive effect on a lot of young Americans that "Starman" on Top Of The Pops in 1972 and the BBC’s 1975 "Cracked Actor" documentary had on UK teenagers.
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