David Bowie's Hunky Dory

This is an updated version of a video uploaded two years ago but subsequently deleted...

1971 was a critical year in the life and career of David Bowie. He became a father for the first time and signed for yet another label, RCA Victor. Meanwhile he hadn't had a hit since Space Oddity two years earlier and his erstwhile mate Marc Bolan had become the biggest pop star in Britain.
Hunky Dory was released in December 1971 and set out the stall that would beguile and confuse audiences for the rest of the decade and beyond. Six months later, Ziggy Stardust would arrive on the scene and Bowie's life would never be same again...