David Bowie | Cracked Actor | Live at the Universal Amphitheatre | 5 September 1974

Remake of a video I originally created a few years ago, of Bowie performing live on the second leg of the 1974 Diamond Dogs tour. The source of the footage is the superb Universal Amphitheatre performance, from “Cracked Actor”, Alan Yentob’s 1975 BBC documentary. The footage is cut to the 2017 “Cracked Actor“ album version of live recordings from that show. • Cracked Actor was originally a song from David Bowie’s 1973 album, Aladdin Sane. When it was subsequently performed on the 1974 Diamond Dogs tour, like most of the older material, Cracked Actor was rearranged to suit Bowie’s new direction. Some of the rearrangements fared better than others, in my opinion. In the case of Cracked Actor, I love what they did with it, especially when the performance aspect is seen. “For the 1974 Diamond Dogs tour Bowie removed “Cracked Actor” from its back-room origins and staged it entirely within an actor’s fevered mind: he wore a cape and sunglasses and sang to a skull in his h