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    Ned FreyRich Juzwiak
    1/11/16 3:37pm

    Actually, you hardly ever never saw any rock performers on 70s TV. In the days before cable (early to mid-70s), broadcasters mostly showed only cheesy pop acts like Sonny and Cher, usually on cheesy variety shows. Just about the only chance you had to see live rock performances was on obscure shows like Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert (which aired only infrequently, after midnight) and eventually, Saturday Night Live.

    That’s one huge difference in being a kid and a rock fan in the 70s vs today - you almost never got to see your heroes on TV back then. If you weren’t old enough (or didn’t have the money) to see them live in concert, you often had almost no idea what they even looked like, other than a few photos on album jackets.

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      Aiwaz418Ned Frey
      1/11/16 3:41pm

      Well, The Midnight Special was certainly a regular outlet for rock acts in the U.S., including Bowie.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQBySM…

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      larryherkimerNed Frey
      1/11/16 3:42pm

      Plenty of rock musicians were counter culture back in those days. It always throws me now when I see a new car commercial playing Led Zeppelin or The Who. Back in the 70's the only pop bands on TV were groups like the Partridge Family, the Monkeys, etc

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    okiedokieokieRich Juzwiak
    1/11/16 3:42pm

    Dinah was cool with him, though.

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      AimeePondokiedokieokie
      1/11/16 3:49pm

      Dinah Shore was cool with everyone. She was way ahead of her time.

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      Ivarsokiedokieokie
      1/11/16 3:57pm

      Dinah was one cool chic.

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    EvanrudeJohnsonRich Juzwiak
    1/11/16 3:46pm

    I don’t know, there was a lot of weird shit on TV in 70's. Ever watch HR Puffinstuff or Lidsville?

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      HaighaEvanrudeJohnson
      1/11/16 4:45pm

      Honestly, the 1970s was a weird damn decade. It wasn’t until I was much older that I realized that not every decade was like that.

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      TxVoodooHaigha
      1/12/16 3:35am

      I used to think it was all the pot I smoked back then. Then I went back & looked at our media and it was objectively weird.

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    ThenSARich Juzwiak
    1/11/16 4:02pm

    Just posting some photos for our friends down in the greys.

    feel free to add your own.

    In fact, I insist.

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      TacrolimusThenSA
      1/11/16 5:06pm
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    bourbon.p.millerRich Juzwiak
    1/11/16 4:44pm

    I know it’s past the season and all but let’s all rewatch the supremely awkward David Bowie/ Bing Crosby Christmas Special.

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      Aladinsane2bourbon.p.miller
      1/11/16 8:49pm

      One of the best Christmas songs, ever.

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      bourbon.p.millerAladinsane2
      1/11/16 11:35pm

      Made better by the fact that neither of them were jazzed to be together, just like real Christmas!

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    JaxJimRich Juzwiak
    1/11/16 3:44pm

    Wasn't David Bowie on SNL in the 70's with a prosthesis(?) in his pants, swinging freely the entire performance? Am I remembering this wrong?

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      JaxJimJaxJim
      1/11/16 3:45pm

      Lazy Monday - should have googled first!

      http://sploid.gizmodo.com/bowie-flaunted…


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      NoButWait Hates Your GoT Fan TheoriesJaxJim
      1/11/16 3:49pm

      He was also apparently banned from SNL forever after intentionally performing a different song than he was scheduled to, because Lorne Michaels had confessed to him that he found it terrifying (it was Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps).

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    HarvestMoonRich Juzwiak
    1/11/16 3:32pm

    My favorite Bowie 1970's TV appearance. Singing with Bing Crosby.

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      Indiana van der RoheRich Juzwiak
      1/11/16 3:56pm

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        ziggyunderslashoneIndiana van der Rohe
        1/13/16 7:34am

        Christ, that’s amazing

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        UnbelizeableIndiana van der Rohe
        1/13/16 5:24pm

        This is amazing, thank you

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      Downton FlabbyRich Juzwiak
      1/11/16 3:54pm

      Bowie performed on Soul Train in the 70’s, which was, if not weird, certainly boundary pushing considering how deeply segregated the music scene was back then.

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        MagisterDownton Flabby
        1/11/16 6:37pm

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      youjustkeepthinkingbutchRich Juzwiak
      1/11/16 5:23pm

      Anyone here old enough to remember his duet with Bing Crosby? https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid…

      Sniff. He did Gaga before she was so much as a gleam in her father’s eye.

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        Aladinsane2youjustkeepthinkingbutch
        1/11/16 8:46pm

        I do! I do! Do you remember at the 17th Grammys in 1975 when David Bowie announced that Aretha Franklin won for best R&b song and she insulted him by saying that she “was so happy that she could kiss David Bowie!”? I was so mad at her I could have spat at her. He was the ony reason why i watched those Grammys. And moreover, Millie Jackson should have won IMHO.

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        AWombOfOnesOwnyoujustkeepthinkingbutch
        1/11/16 11:17pm

        Yep! And I honestly thought I’d dreamed or hallucinated that, for very many years.

        This is my absolute favorite version of this song–the weirdness that is a Bing Crosby/David Bowie duet, sung LIVE, sounding absolutely perfect. Just lovely!

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