David Bowie | Boys Keep Swinging | The Kenny Everett Show | Live Vocal Performance | 23 April 1979
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Forty five years ago today, on Monday 23rd of April 1979, David Bowie performed Boys Keep Swinging on the popular Thames TV program The Kenny Everett Show.
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On the 8th of April, Bowie recorded the backing track for this exclusive version of Boys Keep Swinging, at Tony Visconti’s Good Earth Studios in Soho, London. It was a one-off band picked by Visconti for the session, including ‘78 tour alumni Simon House and Sean Mayes, on violin and piano respectively, Thin Lizzy’s Brian Robertson on guitar and Visconti on bass. The next day, April 9th, was the taping of the show, at Thames Television House, also in London. The session was directed by David Mallet, who directed the entire Kenny Everett Show series. The episode was then broadcast on ITV on April 23rd.
That was the first time new material was aired from Bowie’s forthcoming album, Lodger. It had been an interminable 18 months for Bowie fans, since the release of the “Heroes” album in October 1977.
The Boys Keep Swinging single wouldn’t be released for another four days. And when it appeared, it was a different version to the one aired on The Kenny Everett Show, with a different video to accompany it.
Arguably, The Kenny Everett Show audio and video of Boys Keep Swinging are more satisfying than the official versions. Yes, we are lacking Belew’s marvellous screaming guitar freakout from the Lodger version, and the three Bowie's in drag from the official video. But I really like the live vocal and the rough edges of this version. And Bowie looks spectacularly beautiful here, sporting what looks to be a black boiler suit, sandals, and white nail polish. He’s clearly enjoying himself enormously performing his new song.
The Kenny Everett Show would be the first time Bowie worked with director David Mallet. Bowie was sufficiently impressed with the results, that he also had Mallet shoot the official Boys Keep Swinging video with Mallet, using the same set from The Kenny Everett Show. Bowie and Mallet also worked together on the other videos for Lodger songs, and intermittently during the 80’s on several very well-known videos.
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Five years ago, I attempted a restoration of the Kenny Everett performance. Since then, I have obtained a slightly better source, and technology has moved on. So here’s Take 2.
Note: during the credits at the end of this episode of the Kenny Everett Show, we glimpse quick clips of Bowie throwing the violin, as opposed to catching it as he does in the Boys Keep Swinging clip. In the clip, he pretends to play a violin during the shrieking guitar break. What we are seeing here is footage played in reverse and in varying degrees of slow motion. Out of curiosity, I reversed the footage to the right way round and retimed it to a normal speed. The results are included at the end of the video.
Thanks for watching, hope you dig it!
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Credits
Audio:
David Bowie | Boys Keep Swinging | Special version produced for the Kenny Everett Show. Backing track recorded by Tony Visconti at Good Earth Studio, Soho, London, 8th April 1979.
Video:
An excerpt from The Kenny Everett Show | Series 2 | Episode 9 | Recorded Thames Television House, London | 9 April 1979 | Broadcast on the 23 April 1979 | Directed by David Mallet
Musicians:
David Bowie | Vocal
Brian Robertson | Guitar
Ricky Hitchcock | Guitar
Tony Visconti | Bass
Andy Duncan | Drums
Simon House | Violin
Sean Mayes | Keyboards
Tony Visconti | Production
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Great to see the official Bowie profiles recommending your work, you deserve all the props
@garyduckworth4522
2 ай бұрын
Agreed
@ardentdesir5796
2 ай бұрын
He deserves more, he should be the official Bowie visual archivist.
@Johanson0543
2 ай бұрын
@@ardentdesir5796i agree, they should hire him and give him all their footages
@raveagainstracism
2 ай бұрын
@@Johanson0543 Been saying this for a few years. Let Nacho run wild in the archives.
he DOES look spectacularly beautiful as you say ❤ and he’s chewing up the lyrics with such goddam flair. love him, thank you 🙏
I remember seeing this at the time! Kenny Everett was anarchic tv at the time. Brilliant! Bowie=BONUS! ⚡⚡⚡
Thank you so much for all your work over the years on Bowie. He is gone but we can at least enjoy the fruits of your labour.
@stuartwray6175
2 ай бұрын
He's gone but via the fruits of your labour we can better enjoy the fruits of his labour.
...Thousands will always be written about him... everywhere.... And we...will forever be in love with his Uniqueness...😌🙏💎💜🥀🌬🌊🪽🎶
Really appreciate your work for all Bowie fans worldwide. Such a great and valuable contribution to the David Bowie community. Thank you!
Looks awesome Big thanks Cheers from Chile 🇨🇱🇬🇧
Excellent restoration of this brilliant performance by David Bowie, thank you 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
next to the duke and that suit he wore in china girl, this is my favourite outfit of his
The absolutely JOY and STYLE of the ICON that is BOWIE! Never will there be anyone like him EVER!!!
Fabulous
Another great restoration work by Nacho! Thank you so much!!!
That was rad. I needed a Bowie break.
@michaelmoraga2926
2 ай бұрын
Ditto!
Just saw the instagram post and came to see the video, really nice, as always.
Another masterpiece, Nacho, thanks once again. Nice work !
Looking fantastic, thanks .
@NachoVideo
2 ай бұрын
Cheers mate :)
Spectacular work as usual Nacho..And thanks so much for the background information so absorbing and interesting..my hat comes off yet again ! 🎩❤
Beautiful work. Appreciate all the time and effort. 👍😎
GREAT !!!! Thank You !!!
This video is FANTASTIC! As usual. I audibly cheered when I saw this notification pop up (yes, I have notifs on for your channel - one of only a few).
Fantastic work, Sir Nacho!
Spectacular!
Always a pleasure 👩🏼🎤
I've never seen the skit at the end! Oh my...
Thanks Nacho I needed that!
Thanks Nacho!!!!
This is fantastic! Great restoration. I loved the Kenny Everett Show but have never seen this performance. Fire. 🔥🔥🔥
Thank you SOOO much - love your hard work here :)
So much fun! Thank you for this 😌❤️
Great! Thank you. ;)
Thank you for such a beautiful BOWIE as always⚡Nice ending❤ 🎉👏from Tokyo
Another masterpiece you've saved
Love you creating anything with videos of the supernova 78 tour shows, and official 78/79 videos for the superb Heroes and Lodger albums.What a 2 years they were, together with the release of Stage also. I agree he looks and sings great in this alternate version of Boys and Belew's iconic solo is irreplaceable. Any future projects on the superb DJ video would be fantastic, thanks Nacho.
Thankyou Sir Nacho! Much love from Australia ❤⚡🚬
bleddy fine work yet again ! great stuff ! x
Fantastic work as always Nacho, dear friend!! It's great to see your work is getting more love!! ❤❤❤
Once again, Fantastic Nacho !!! ⚡⚡⚡♂♂👁💙
Gorgeous. Bravo, Nacho!
Awesome work! Glad you include an Everett intro and outro.
Another master piece from nacho
I’m laughing so very hard right now I really love David Bowie so very much I can’t with David Bowie I really love David Bowie so very much David Bowie is so very funny David Bowie is my favorite person ever I really love David Bowie so very much I’m laughing so very hard right now 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😂😂😂😂
Wonderful Bowie & Kenny Everett
fookin fabulousse
Marvelous Bowie!
Awesome !! Thank You !!
So grateful to have grown with him...from Space Oddity..onwards. He was the soundtrack of my teenage years. A true and genuine artist
That was so good that I had to literally open a bottle and raise a glass! Fantastic restoration, especially the sound. Helps remind me exactly where I was at 7pm on 23/04/79 (not that I'd ever forgotten), 3/4's of the way through my sixteenth year of this particular reincarnation whilst experiencing an incredible era in music! 'We' were all so looking forward to what DB would do next after 'Heroes' and this was well worth waiting for, so fresh and different from anything else he or anyone else was doing at the time. I think the first verse in particular perfectly captures how it felt to be a 'boy' growing up at the time, truly as if ....Heaven loves you, The clouds part for you, Nothing stands in your way.... Or perhaps that's how I think it felt looking back retrospectively. Still, inspired lyrics! I'd forgotten that DB sang this live on this studio recording, and only found out relatively recently that Brian Robertson (....one of the greatest and emotive guitar players of all time, btw) played on this version taking on Adrian Belew's typically wild soloing, so different from his normal blues-rock style - I wonder how he came to play on this? - perhaps a crossover link with Tony Visconti shortly after finishing or putting the finishing touches to 'Black Rose' which was released around the same time that this Kenny Everett episode was aired (although Gary Moore superceded BR for Black Rose after the fall out between Brian and Phil Lynott). Of course, Visconti took on the producer role for both artists across the '77 to '79 period, and on to '80 with DB for Scary Monsters. I wonder if BR ever got to meet DB in person? - I'd love to be able to ask BR about that! Another amazing video, thanks very much, Nacho! Cheers!
@NachoVideo
2 ай бұрын
Wonderful comment, I resonate with everything you say. Plus I’m a huge fan of Live and Dangerous (I’ll get around to some Lizzy Nacho’s videos at sone point). Thanks!
@halloweenjack2562
2 ай бұрын
@@NachoVideo Some Lizzy videos would be cracking idea, Nacho! L&D was released 2/6/78, of course, not nearly 2 mths after this Kenny Everett show - I think I must have raised one too many glasses last night! Will have to re-adjust my time-machine settings....although '78 and '79 were both highlight years for me. All the best ! 🤜🤛💤
@NachoVideo
2 ай бұрын
@@halloweenjack2562if you edit your comment as you see fit, I will include it in my video description if you like?
@halloweenjack2562
2 ай бұрын
@@NachoVideo Hi Nacho. a couple of amends/corrections to the comment - of course it was the release of the Black Rose LP that coincided with the airing of this Kenny Everett show! Silly that the time lines should blur slightly in my memory after a mere 45 years! I'll leave to you whether to use of of this, you're welcome to do so but it's a bit ponderous, I'm sure doesn't add to your own! All the best ! 🤜🤛
WOW! Bravo! Nice clean up, Nacho
Great job.
@NachoVideo
2 ай бұрын
Cheers Ian
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Dekuji, krásná vzpominka❣️
Great channel
Great job Nacho ❤
Awesome performance by David bowie on the kenny everett video show filmed at Thames television Teddington middlesex classic track al
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Shared 📍 💝⚡🕺🏼
The weird man character and the city scenery remind me of James Bidgood's film PINK NARCISSUS.
Those were the days when artists could perform with a ciggie in one hand!
When I was 8 years old, I was camping with my 12-year old brother in the middle of nowhere, when we were terrified by the sudden approach of car headlights. It turned out to be a young hippie couple who wanted to share our campfire. They were nice to us, and I was mesmerized by a cassette tape with "ChangesOneBowie" printed on it which they kept playing over and over. As the night grew long, our anticipation of returning to the opening guitar strums of "John, I'm Only Dancing" grew stronger each time our guests turned the tape back over. I woke up the next morning with music firmly entrenched in my destiny, and was delighted to finally lay eyes upon Ziggy Stardust for the first time the following year, on the Kenny Everett Show. That's him! That's the guy!!! He didn't just do his song like the others - he had a sword fight with Kenny! I thought it was the coolest thing since Space Invaders. Everyone at school was doing the Boys foot tap the next day. I was too, of course! Boys keep swingin'... Cheers for the flashbacks, Nacho!
@NachoVideo
2 ай бұрын
Beatiful comment, Steve XO
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Bravo, Nacho! Wish you had made a documentary about David!
@NachoVideo
2 ай бұрын
Thabk you. I have made three documentaries about David: www.nachosvideos.com/copy-of-long-form-videos
@caiofranzoi9343
2 ай бұрын
Nacho, I cannot watch the first documentary because it’s not allowed in Brazil
@NachoVideo
2 ай бұрын
@@caiofranzoi9343 when you say “the first one”, which are you referring to?
@caiofranzoi9343
2 ай бұрын
Sorry. I’m referring to “David Bowie Live on Stage Earls Court London 1978 | 2023 Documentary | Pt. 1”
@NachoVideo
2 ай бұрын
@@caiofranzoi9343that’s what I thought. That one has been blocked by KZread, except for the US. You may watch it via a VPN. Or in a few months I will upload it to my website, where it will be a accessible to all.
With his beautiful, characteristic original own teeth.... 'Take me, take me...' I might have said that... 😂😂 😍
Excellent work again Nacho! I do miss Belen’s guitar but overall it’s a better take for me too.
culture 👍🏻
Nachoooo
Interesting, as Bowie rarely performed this song live after 1979.
Couple of crazy Capricorns acting the goat 😅 (David was the G.O.A.T. ) cheers Nacho ✌🏻
🎻🎸🎹🥁🎤It sort of looks like Bowie channeling Marlene (well they WERE both Capricorns!) I guess a hint at the majesty of the drag to follow, not long after!💎💄💋
@scarystardust6095
2 ай бұрын
As was Kenny Everett 😊 so happy that I am too... 🐐
Is this the show Bowie had Gary Numan ejected from? Or a later one
@davemcintyre7195
2 ай бұрын
It is. 👍
weird instrumental mix: heavy on the string synth
Hilariously funny al
Lamentablemente la editorial de Bowie solo edita material del periodo 1970-73 y nada de este periodo, que para los fans es el más querido. Cajas, cofres y discos excesivamente caros que no ofrecen nada nuevo. Quizá solo sea cuestión de tiempo. Pero la discográfica es lenta editando material inédito.
Live vocal but is the mix different? The guitar solo sounds different
Someone's going to burn themselves.
Just look who'd be offended at this today - transvestites for the bra and knickers, gays - for saying "lilley livered mincer," and look at Bowie - he's smoking indoors! TUT TUT!!! 😁😂