me too

I think he did say stuff like Hi I'm David Bowie, would you like to accompany me for this evening m'am? I suppose that worked rather often lol.

Don't fool yourself, he had a rock star's ego for sure. I'm a massive fan of Bowie and have read a lot.

Also, wasn't the opera personnel curious why DB was being filmed?

@@allisonchainz82 he had a grudge against one of the greats, can't remember, but it was Dylan or Elton or Lou Reed, i mean, a real grudge

​@mateosimon4237 Elton and Dylan he had beef with. Lou, specifically, had beef with him after Bowie told him to cut back on the heroin if he'd ever want him to produce another one of his albums. Also, he and Dylan squashed it in the mid-80's.

Fun fact, Iggy Pop, from Detroit, co-wrote China Girl with David in Berlin and his band, while producing Iggy's debut solo record, and performed it first on his record. Now David's opening here with it in Honk Kong, looks like. It seems like Iggy contributed a lot to this most commercially successful era, even though David seemed to try and dismiss it, because the critics did. David put China Girl as #2 on Lets Dance and opens with it on tour here, then put 5 songs Iggy co-wrote on Tonight, which did not do so well, but hey kind of hard to follow up this smash global tour and record and being everywhere on TV too all in the same year, right? Actually, David did not play any instruments on 1983s Lets Dance, his most commercially successful album, whereas Iggy's first 'solo' album The Idiot, David did play many of the instruments and his band, before recording Bowies Low album, and then toured with Iggy's tour as his keyboard player, and then released the Heroes record, all in the same year, 1977! Interesting how that era unfolded. I think Iggy was along on this trip too! Theyy wrote Tumble and Twirl In Bali or somewhere. I saw the Serious Moonlight and Sound and Vision tours in Detroit, and Iggy open for either the Who or the Stones, cant remember. I went to college in the town Iggy grew up in about 30 miles from Detroit, strangely enough, though I didn't realize it at the time or all their collaborations over the years.

@@michaelg6641 Yes you were right on pretty much all you said there. Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy were big faves for me as a teenager since the early 70s and i really loved that 77-79 era with The Idiot, Low, Heroes and Lodger. It is true they wrote that in Bali and David was standing on top of the world around that time, following Lets Dance and the huge 83 tour. I was at the show that was to be the biggest of all on the tour. 90,000+in Auckland N. Z. Western Springs Outdoor Stadium. It was truly awesome. The crowds were huge outside with no tickets. A large perimeter fence was pulled down as around 8,000 piled in and security couldnt stop it. One thing though, it appears that China Girl was the opener here in the video, but i feel that was an afterthought to add to the video, as David and co realised how huge the screams and cheers were when he played it. In fact it would of been emotional for him to do that on the Asian leg shows but equally, it was a big song to save for later to really lift the crowd. He opened with Look Back In Anger at the 83 show i was at and i believe that was the one he opened with at nearly every show of the tour. He did open with Scary Monsters though at one of the Hong Kong shows. I think there were 2, but maybe just 1. Thanks for your interest and input.

I always thought the line was "man o wars to rule the world", as in weapons. But I like your line better.

@@onyx2626 Hi, thats great thanks. Thats a pretty good line that was in your head though. I love those lines, My little China Girl, You shouldnt mess with me, I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television, I'll give you eyes of blue, I'll give you a man who wants to rule the world. Those superb lines are open to your own interpretations of how you see them. Thanks for your interest on those lyrics, all the best.

I would say this was a basic transition point to something greater again. I wish they would bottle his enthusiasm/philosophy for life.

It’s like watching Picasso around Town.

It’s quite an inspirational achievement.

Thanks for the info! Been trying to get hold of this for years after I lent the old VHS to someone and never got it back...

Thank-you brought it

​@@dreddpirateroberts634 Yes I learn that lesson some time back, they are made never to return - books cds, tapes, painting(perhaps) Vhs

Me too

You got that right, the best period, I saw this tour!

😏 get you.. where you're coming from... actually..

Sitting out on "my perch" as Dad calls it watching the rain and enjoying the cool air.. What are you doing ?

whenever i cross that bridge far east plaza i picture bowie's escalator scene in my head

where the escalator at?.. mall? store?

@@milliekennedy9209 directly in front of Far East Plaza Mall on Scotts road Singapore

As do I😊

Its was not a limo

The woman wasn't talking s***, as you put it. Hong Kong was due to handed back to the Chinese authorities in 1997 from the ruling English authorities and there was a LOT of fear about it when Bowie visited in 83. You only have to see at what has happened there in the last few years with suppression from then mainland over its populace to see that her fears though premature were right in the end.

​@electricden the poster said "serious shit" and wasn't denigrating her point. He was simply enjoying David having that conversation and then making it jokey with the questions about the song.

10.43 Bowie can turn night into day - thats powerful.

Bowie Power 🌜 🌚

And she was not anything but ugly, on the contrary of what says Angie.

@ Heavy middle me too I was 12 and one day coming from my big brother s room I heard , do u remember a guy that S been in such an early song? I was hooked for life!!! I miss him so much…

haha wonder if it was scripted? if real must have felt nice for him to feel non famous again for an instant. But yeH, there's literally a professional amera and they should at least know he's famous or sort of famous at least, even assuming they don't know who he is

The appearance of the footage in Moonage Daydream -directed by Brett Morgen will have to suffice for now

the funk end of it is yet another proof of his immense talent

How is life sad?

Fashion!!