Product Description

DAVID BOWIE There are some who say that youth is wasted on the young, but this could never be said of Rock icon David Bowie. His distinctive music, exotic appearance and wild boy lifestyle defined an entire generation through the glamorous, hedonistic 1970s and his alter egos Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane afforded him every possible life experience an adventurous experimenter could grasp! It is this very diversity that makes David Bowie such a fascinating character and On the Rock Trail has a remarkable tale to tell. (*This documentary does not contain any original David Bowie music)

54 MIN. • COLOR

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #153703 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-05-02
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 54 minutes

Customer Reviews

No Bowie music? Try no Bowie period
If you think the most fascinating period of David Bowie's career was before he actually started making music, than this is for you.

This incredibly cheap DVD not only has not a scratch of Bowie music, there isn't even footage, anytime Bowie is shown it is through amateurish photos.

This DVD is more suited for The Travel Channel than VH-1, as it is composed almost entirely of a puffed-up documentary-type fellow driving through England's greenland or showing the exteriors of different buildings Bowie inhabited in his youth, giving a very generic Bowie bio along the way, getting some of the info wrong of course.

Forgive me if I'm not real helpful as I did fall asleep about 30 minutes into this less-than-an-hour documentary, but when I woke up a few minutes later, I watched a random guy playing a random song on a guitar for about 5-10 minutes.

Take that for what it's worth.

Appallingly bad
This is absolutely terrible. The commentary sounds like its one of those dreadful health and safety videos they make you watch at work. It has no redeeming features, but lots of innaccuracies and mispronunciations. They call Bowie's son Duncan Zowie Howard Jones, and suggest Bowie was obsessed by Charlie Chaplin (actually he had an interest in Buster Keaton). These, and others, are elementary errors that show a complete lack of knowledge or research.

I particulary "enjoyed" the repeated views of Alders department store in Bromley, and what looks like a supermarket on the site of the register office where David and Angela got married. These add greatly to the viewers knowledge of Bowie - NOT!

I should also single out for attention the background music which is designed to sound like various Bowie songs (Changes, The Jean Genie and Let's Dance, for example) without actually being anything to do with Bowie at all.

Really, this is laughable, and anyone who thinks there are learning anything about Bowie from this DVD is sadly mistaken.

Great documentary
Just like the other On The Rock Trail series DVDs, this one is a great documentary on how and where David Bowie got started in the music business. There is no David Bowie music on the DVD, which it clearly states in the description, which is fine with me, I think this documentary is very informative, and I don't miss the music.