Does David Bowie Really Knows Who Dick Mac Is?

In the Autumn of 2003, I was invited to participate in an international live simulcast of a David Bowie interview being broadcast during half-time of his Reality show. The whole event was being staged via a satellite link. Very David Bowie.

I was in a movie theater in New York City with a few hundred of David Bowie's closest personal friends. In theaters around the world, thousands more of his closest friends were gathered and one person in each theater would also be asking a question.

My question was to be last, which was good, because inclement weather was disrupting the satellite hook-up.

We all sat and watched the first half of the concert and when the half-time show started, there was no satellite link. We saw a blank screen. There was no interview, no David Bowie, nothing.

I was disappointed that I wouldn't get to chat with Bowie and ask a question, my friends were just as disappointed and all expressed their sympathy at the end of the event.

I forgot all about the whole thing until last December. My friend Liz contacted me and said she had a bootleg DVD of the event and almost fell off her chair when David Bowie laughed and said he knew who I was.

She sent me a copy of the DVD which turns out to be an English-language broadcast from Brazilian television with Portuguese subtitles.

Thanks to Frank, I finally got this snippet prepared for you to see.

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