It’s been a while since we’ve done a video of the day, but this was one was too much fun to pass up. A 1973 clip of David Bowie performing — not miming “Jean Genie” on the BBC’s Top of the Pops series, that was thought lost, until a copy of the videotape showed up recently in a BBC cameraman’s archives. He apparently took it home after the shoot and forgot about it, as did everybody else. Today, it’s a great look back at Bowie at the tail-end of his Ziggy Stardust persona:
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