David Bowie’s Glastonbury 2000 performance to be shown on BBC Four on Friday 26th October at 10.55pm

This programme features an hour of highlights from that performance, including such previously unbroadcast hits as Ashes To Ashes, Starman and Let’s Dance. Bowie was returning to the festival for the first time since 1971. His star was not in the ascendant after the Tin Machine era and such 90s solo albums as Outside, Earthling and Hours. But from the moment he walked out on the Pyramid Stage, resplendent in an Alexander McQueen frock coat with his hair in Hunky Dory mode, and launched into Wild is the Wind, it was clear that he had decided to embrace and fully restate both his catalogue and his legend. Arguably it was Bowie’s greatest live performance since the 70s.

You can watch a preview of the show, “Heroes” here

(Main image, David Bowie backstage at Glastonbury Festival 2000 by Dave Hogan)