David Bowie: The Dinah Show - Housewives with Blue Hair

NME One Page (Mar 6, 1976)

THE DINAH SHOW audience is a mixed lot — housewives with blue hair who wait in line to be a part, somehow, of Holly-wood "show business", and more teenagers than usual.

The warmup man leaps out in bright orange turtleneck sweater and beige polyester leisure suit, and hits us with the rap: "We get some nutty audiences on this show, folks... We want you to scream, ap-plaud, do your own thing Just got back from Lost Wages yuk..." yuk, yuk, ... ...

"Didja see Day-vee?" shrieks a maniac blond groupie.

("Angela wanted to be here," whispers the publicist, "but she's home cooking for a dinner party they're having later with Alice Cooper and Ray Brad-bury.")

"And now here's someone considered by many to be one of the most influential people in the rock spectrum!!!"

Pix flash on the screen - the Ziggy patterned jumpsuit, the long striped sock, the pink jock-strap, the white suit. About 50 teenagers in the audience scream as a screen is raised and There He Is.

David Bowie sings "Stay" and out of camera range, co-hosts Nancy Walker and "Fonzie" Winkler tap their toes. Bowie does little disco steps, looks great.

The song over, he sits down with Dinah to "rap".

Dinah: "How do you feel when you hear those screams?"

Dave: "It's my drummer, actually..."

More photos of our boy flash on the screen, big white suit, red suspenders, blue-and-white polka dot sweater. Dinah elicits remarks from David: "Oh that one, I was living in New York at the time and was influenced by a lot of Puerto Rican clothing. I steal from everybody, you know.