David Bowie: Finding Fame

If you're looking for a comprehensive documentary about David Bowie's entire career than this is not it. This film does a great job documenting Bowie's early years of creativity and frustration within the music industry and his legendary metamorphosis into Ziggy Stardust, but that's where it ends unfortunately. All his great work from the 70's that follow Ziggy is left out, which annoyed me enough to write this review. What a shame.

Arguably one of the best documentaries, on any subject, ever.

Rarely has there been an opportunity to enjoy journalistic work dig so deep and so unbiased. Completely mind blowing. No sensationalism, no flirting with the audience - just pure journalistic excellence. Francis Whateley I commend you; you are a scholar, a gentleman and an extraordinarily rare creature - a true journalist.

David Bowie: Finding Fame delves deep and shows much. It does so and presents, in earnest, what it finds. There is so "seducing the masses", no bias and no pointing of fingers. It is a delicacy of a documentary not only when it comes to documenting David Bowie's early career - but, also, in how any documentary should approach any subjec.

Looking next to the obvious and putting great effort in depicting the subtle truth restores faith in the documentary format.

To me, Bowie has pretty much always been on the top of my Rock Music list. Like many others I discovered him in his Ziggy days...'72 I believe. I liked Starman but when I first heard Five Years I was blown away and there was no going back.

This Doc focuses on his early years. It was great seeing snippets of those early clips with songs I was unaware of. Some commented that they were disappointed it didn't go into Ziggy and what came after more. That wasn't the point of this Doc. Besides, everyone knows the early years are what's most interesting.

Alot of Bowie's early songs are actually very good..only to be let down by the arrangements at times.

Watching this Doc I got a sense of the personality that he was. The interviews with old band mates and friends were informative and didn't meander on. Slight disappointment was that there was very little visual interviews with Bowie.

All in all, very recommended to Bowie and Rock Music fans.

Finding fame was not easy for David Bowie. It took a while for him to find his own voice.

Until then he borrowed Anthony Newley's with The Laughing Gnome. Bowie was more of a cheeky Cockney, even singing songs from Mary Poppins.

As a Londoner, Bowie also had time to try to imitate The Kinks or sing songs of the style of The Who.

The songs which Bowie released but they did not chart until The Space Oddity. Even then fame was far away.

Bowie was a man who was looking for an image as well as a voice and it seems he was getting there slowly.

The look came courtesy of Ziggy Stardust. Once fame was achieved, he put Ziggy away. It was now David Bowie from now on.

Although this documentary looked at his childhood, his parents seemed to be distant from him as well as each other. It did lack input from close family and childhood friends. I would liked to have heard more of Bowie before he became a singer.

Also Angie Bowie is missing from this documentary. She was instrumental in those early days and getting Bowie and his band to have a certain image and experiment with costumes.

This documentary is an easy look back into the life and artistic climb of David Bowie to the level of international fame.

It is informative without giving you too much information. Plus it is interesting in how it shows David Bowie and his focused artistic drive on is music dreams and how he made it all come true.

His personal life is left in the shadows and not dwelled upon.