10 October 1980

Friday Night - Saturday Morning BBC 2 TV show broadcast featuring an interview with Bowie recorded in New York's Plaza Hotel by Tim Rice. It included extracts from the play onstage at the Booth Theatre.

DB: I've had a terrific audience that have been staunchly loyal, in the main part, to what I've done and the changes that I've taken, which as you know have been quite diverse to say the least. And there have been a sort of knotty band that have stayed with me through all of that. And so I've never tried to feel self-satisfied with what I've done which has prompted me to move in different directions. But it certainly was an incredible fulfilment for me to be able to do something, so-called 'legitimate', in fact undergo that kind of discipline and find I could withstand it and work within somebody else's very strict confines.

TR: Are you getting people saying, 'I enjoyed your performance but I've never heard of you before'?

DB: That element has crept into it, yes. There have been some regular theatre-goers who've come… well, they had heard of me but in some sort of perverse fashion or some kind of really corrupt idea of what I was about and I suppose they've got a different impression of me now…

TR: Would you like to go back on stage in due course?

DB: Not particularly. I've learned an awful lot just from the few weeks that I've been doing this. I hope I can explore the part even further. If I don't then I'll be wasting a lot of time. I would like to be more adventurous with the part. Whilst all this palaver has gone on about press and opening nights and whatever, now things are relaxing more I would like to stretch out into it more. There are certain avenues that I'd like to follow that I haven't had the courage to do so, yet. But now I will probably take advantage.