A documentary exploring David Bowie’s early years titled David Bowie: The First Five Years is officially in the works.
The new doco will be the prequel to 2013’s Five Years and 2017’s The Last Five Years – the final part of the trilogy.
Following 2013’s Five Years and 2017’s The Last Five Years, a new David Bowie documentary exploring his early career titled The First Five Years is in the works.
The BBC documentary will reportedly air next year. Running at 90 minutes, it will explore the Bowie before Ziggy Stardust, following the period from 1966 when he changed his name from David Jones.
It will feature unheard audio recordings, archived and unpublished documents alongside exclusive interviews with Bowie’s family, girlfriends, boyfriends and early collaborators, including his first cousin and lifelong-friend Kristina Amadeus and former girlfriend and muse Hermione Farthingale – both of whom have never before been filmed talking about him – longtime friend and producer Tony Visconti, early producer Tony Hatch, and Woody Woodmansey, the last remaining Spider from Mars.
“Making this trilogy has been an incredible experience for me,” says producer and director, Francis Whately, “unearthing rare recording, footage and archive, and the privilege of speaking to so many of his friends and collaborators who were so open in talking about the Bowie they knew, loved and admired so much. He is possibly now even more famous in death than in life and I hope this film will bring some new understanding to this great artist from the early years of his incredible life.”
Jan Younghusband, Head of Music TV Commissioning for BBC Music, added, “We were so honoured to work with David Bowie in his lifetime, and so delighted to be able to continue his story on the BBC with this new film, which looks at the incredible journey of his rise to fame, including first time testimony from the people with him along the way in the early days.”
David Bowie: The First Five Years will launch on the BBC Two channel in 2019. Stay tuned for more info on where else you can watch it.
[via Deadline]
