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Bowie’s headline slot is regarded as one of the greatest ever – and BBC Two is screening it in full tonight. Follow along with us
9.39pm BST
It’s a bold and typically Bowie move to start with the stately Wild Is the Wind, the final track on his incredible 1976 album Station to Station, and perhaps the opposite of the high-octane opening the audience might have expected. Nonetheless, it’s intense, and his voice swoops through the challenging melody – first recorded by Johnny Mathis and written by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington for the 1957 film of the same name.
9.35pm BST
Bowie with slightly lockdown hair ... certainly the longest it had been since the early 70s. Continue reading...