Bowie At Glastonbury 2000

David Bowie at Glastonbury 2000 relives the night of Sunday 27 June 2000 when Bowie closed Glastonbury with a two-hour performance.

At Bowie’s insistence, only around half an hour of that stunning set was able to broadcast on the BBC - the first five songs were aired live followed by encore tracks at the end of the set. Fortunately the cameras kept rolling and captured the whole set. Now BBC Four is screening an hour of highlights from that career-extending performance, including such previously unbroadcast hits as Ashes To Ashes, Starman and Let’s Dance.

Bowie was returning to the festival for the first time since 1971. His star was not in the ascendant after the Tin Machine era and such 90s solo albums as Outside, Earthling and Hours, but from the moment he walked out on the Pyramid Stage resplendent in a an Alexander McQueen frock coat with his hair in Hunky Dory mode and launched into Wild Is The Wind, it was clear that Bowie had decided to fully restate both his catalogue and his legend.

Arguably it was his greatest live performance since the 1970s - one that captures and embraces his legend.

This programme is a BBC Studios Production that follows David Bowie: Finding Fame, on BBC Two tonight.

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