David Bowie's First TV Appearance

In 1964, David Bowie (then David Jones) was the 17-year-older leader of the band The Manish Boys. To gain publicity, his father came up with a stunt. They concocted an organization called the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-Haired Men. That garnered the band an appearance on the BBC show Tonight.  

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Here is that show from November 1964. It's good to see Bowie as an everyday longhaired British teenager. If the host had known where young David's career would take him, he would have been even more scandalized. -via Boing Boing


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I have been watching this since say, October... such a catchy tune. I always use it to cheer me up! <3

check out the user's other videos as well... equally cute and hilarious!
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Well, of course it sticks in your head; it's insipid. That's why I can never understand people who use "catchy" as a positive term. Catchy is incredibly easy to write and annoying to anyone with any sense of musical taste.
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I'm just amazed that anyone could find that rubbish catchy.

Maybe I'm just tired of the endless spew of cute animal videos accompanied by crappy songs. Maybe we need some real animal situations.

There's a bulldog squatting on my lawn.

It's a sack, full of kitty cats. And they meow, meow, meow, and they splash, splash, splash.
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OK. That was undeniably cute. Now pass me the ear bleach. The "Demon DJ" in my head is going to get a lot of use out of that little tune...
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