I'll happily masticate on my grey fedora (á la 'Man who fell to earth') if it turns up in my lifetime.

This is too much of a tease.......fingers are well crossed thatthis finally sees the light of day for us all

We're not quite there yet, but that grey fedora is looking a little vulnerable today

I assume the footage was recorded at the BBC's TOTP studio's in Manchester

The show moved to London in 1966!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some more info on the Jean Genie progress. This is written by John Henshall:-

""First I went with Richard Turley, a producer from the BBC, to Westpoint Television, a company which specialises in playing and copying very old broadcast video tapes. It was an amazing spine-tingling experience when David Bowie performing 'The Jean Genie' live on 'Top of the Pops' in January 1973 came up on screen in superb broadcast quality. It was the first time the tape has been played for over 38 years. It is 'rarer than rare' to quote Ray Langstone, who heard me mention that I have the recording when I was on BBC Radio 2's 'Johnnie Walker's Sounds of the Seventies' a couple of months ago####. It seems that people have been searching for this recording, on which Bowie played live, for years without success. Until now! The BBC wiped their tape after the original broadcast and there is no other version. Why do I have it? Well I was a young cameraman at the time and used one of my Telefex Fisheye lenses on my camera. I'm even in shot myself! So I went down to VTR and asked them to make me a copy – on 2-inch broadcast videotape. No VHS in those days. The picture shows Richard Turley and David Dean transcribing the tape at Westpoint Television this week.""

There is a picture of John in the studios as mentioned. Before you ask - it doesn't have any still/pic of the performance on there.""

#### I am aware Mark Wardle, and then Laurence spotted the Sounds of the 70's piece before me!!!! Obviously I have spoken to John a fair bit on email, phone and social networking an awful lot, hence the mention of myself!

Ray, any chance you could also update the Mick Ronson forum of this exciting development, cheers

I see my post reached the Forum before I did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The BBC are aware - and someone at the BBC is definitely aware. Can't say who, but they are someone involved in the showing of Archive footage at a high level.

They were the one I informed about the Stealer's Wheel footage, that the BEEB didn't know they had and was subesequently broadcast this year.

Apparently, DB's management in the US may know too, but that is not something I have been involved in.

Regards, Ray.