The BBC re-broadcast the clip in its Top of the Pops 2 Christmas Special on 21 December 2011, for the first time since the original broadcast in January 1973. The film has since been preserved and was shown at the British Film Institute in December 2011. Henshall was contacted to share his historic material, and was surprised to find he was the only one with a surviving copy. Tapes of this edition of Top of the Pops were subsequently wiped, but a copy was made by BBC cameraman John Henshall, who had utilised the then new fisheye lens camera techniques for the performance.
Unusually for the era, the four-piece band performed live, and included an extended guitar solo by Mick Ronson.
īowie also recorded "The Jean Genie" for BBC's Top of the Pops, the performance being broadcast on 4 January 1973. This led to Foxe's casting, and she flew from New York to San Francisco especially for the shoot. Bowie wanted the video to depict "Ziggy as a kind of Hollywood street-rat" with a "consort of the Marilyn brand". Mick Rock directed a film clip to promote the song, in October 1972 in San Francisco, mixing concert and studio footage of Bowie performing with the Spiders from Mars, along with location shots of the singer posing at the Mars Hotel with Cyrinda Foxe. Music video īowie at the Mars Hotel, 192 Fourth Street, San Francisco, California, 1972 The title, of course, was a clumsy pun upon Jean Genet". In his 2005 book Moonage Daydream, he stated this less equivocally: "Starting out as a lightweight riff thing I had written one evening in NY for Cyrinda's enjoyment, I developed the lyric to the otherwise wordless pumper and it ultimately turned into a bit of a smorgasbord of imagined Americana. Bowie was once quoted as saying that this was "subconscious. The title has long been taken as an allusion to the author Jean Genet. it wasn't actually Iggy." The line "He's so simple minded, he can't drive his module" later gave the band Simple Minds their name. The subject matter was inspired in part by Bowie's friend Iggy Pop or, in Bowie's own words, "an Iggy-type character. The song's chugging R&B riff is often compared to the Yardbirds, especially their cover of Bo Diddley's " I'm a Man", but was most probably inspired by French singer Jacques Dutronc's La Fille du Père Noël (1966), while the lyrics have been likened to the "stylised sleaze" of the Velvet Underground. Mixing occurred the following week at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee the original single mix is in narrow stereo, while the stereo soundscape is wider in the album mix. "I said, 'You remember when you were doing The Jean Genie?' He said, 'No. "I had a really great conversation with Trevor Bolder," recalled Def Leppard's Joe Elliott. The recording took place at New York's RCA Studios on 6 October 1972.
Sexy girl." Bowie later in the 1990s described the song as "a smorgasbord of imagined America" and "my first New York song."
Bowie later asserted, "I wrote it for her amusement in her apartment. It subsequently became the first song Bowie composed for Aladdin Sane, in autumn 1972 during his 1972 US tour, completing the song in New York City, where he spent time with the Warhol set's Cyrinda Foxe. According to author Nicholas Pegg, "The Jean Genie" originated as an impromptu jam, at this point titled "Bussin'", on the tour bus between the first two concerts in Cleveland and Memphis, when Mick Ronson began playing the Bo Diddley-inspired guitar riff on his new Les Paul.
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