It is 50 years since the release of David Bowie's Young Americans album, on the 7th of March 1975. Here is a new remake of my 2016 David Bowie Right video; an edit and sync of BBC footage from a 1974 L.A. rehearsal session, cut to Right from the Young Americans album. The Right video is a very big deal for me. It originally came about by chance in 2016, as an editing experiment made in the immediate wake of Bowie’s death. Right became my first YouTube hit video and it holds a special place in my heart. • In the footage, we see Bowie and his singers in September '74, rehearsing Right, in Los Angeles. Featured in the video are: David Bowie Luther Vandross Robin Clark Ava Cherry Anthony Hinton Mike Garson (Keyboards) Charlie Brown (Saxophone) The footage was shot for the 1975 BBC David Bowie documentary “Cracked Actor”, which was produced and directed by Alan Yentob. The colour portions of the footage were used in Cracked Actor. The black and white sections was first utilized in Francis Whateley's 2013 BBC documentary, David Bowie: Five Years. • Doing it Right - a convoluted little history of The Right Promo, and of dodging the dreaded copyright algorithms and the BBC It was a Saturday morning just after the news broke of Bowie's death. I found myself once again watching Francis Whateley’s great David Bowie: Five Years documentary. Suddenly, the black and white footage of Bowie and his singers rehearsing in ’74 jumped out of the screen at me. Despite the original sound being almost totally obscured by the interview voices, I realised the footage offered the possibility of making a video for my favorite track from Young Americans. So I set to work, and after a long editing session, a rough cut had been produced of the Right video. I could hardly believe my eyes - it worked! I asked myself, can making a music video really be that simple? By February the 13th, I felt the Right video was finished, and I uploaded it to my fledgling YouTube channel. YouTube’s algorithm quickly detected that the copyright of the footage belonged to the BBC. However, after filing a standard YouTube fair-use claim, by February 16th the video was released and viewable. I waited with some trepidation to see what / if there would be any reaction. Almost immediately, views and enthusiastic comments cascaded in. To my astonishment Carlos Alomar featured it on his site, and Mike Garson got in touch to ask if he could feature it on his! In March, a kind soul wrote to say that they’d seen my video on the big screen at The Odeon, Leicester Square as part of Adam Buxton's Bowie Bug video tour. “It was the best video of the night… a full cinema applauded your work”, that nice person wrote. In April, I was in the UK and caught one of the Bowie Bug video live shows. It was a thrilling moment when Adam Buxton introduced my video and he and I had a brief exchange, he on stage, me kinda shouting back from my seat, too shy to join him on stage. The Right promo spent three happy years on my YouTube channel, amassing over 700,000 views and 10,000 likes and comments. But then in 2019, I heard that someone at the BBC objected to the video, and soon it was blocked on YouTube, having been “manually detected”. Thereafter, I received many requests to repost the video elsewhere. And so, I remade Right adding the addendum [Redux] and posted it on my Vimeo channel, which had been trouble-free up to that point. In February 2020, Vimeo in their infinite wisdom, without warning or explanation deleted every music video from my channel, including Right. I tried posting Right to my Daily Motion channel, but it was immediately blocked on there too. With no other options, I’ve uploaded this new version to my Russian channel, which is apparently free (for the moment at least) of the usual copyright restrictions. So, this new version, has had another round of tinkering, including being cleaned-up and enhanced with some of the latest AI tools. Thanks for watching, hope you dig it! • Credits Video Source: BBC documentaries: Cracked Actor | 1975 | Directed by Alan Yentob David Bowie: Five Years | 2013 | Directed by Francis Whateley Music Source: David Bowie | Right | Recorded in 1974 | Released 7 March 1975 on the album Young Americans Musicians: Lead vocals | David Bowie Rhythm guitar | Carlos Alomar Bass guitar | Willie Weeks Drums | Andy Newmark Clavinet | Mike Garson Alto sax | David Sanborn Conga | Larry Washington Backing vocals | Luther Vandross | Robin Clark | Ava Cherry | Geoff MacCormack | Anthony Hinton | Diane Sumler Production & Mixing | Tony Visconti | Harry Maslin • Always more videos to follow, so please keep your electric eye on me babe! I don't own the rights, and I'm not making any money out of this etc. Just a fan making videos for other fans. Please Share, Like, Comment, Subscribe