David Bowie: Finding Fame review: BBC documentary thankfully fails to ‘make sense’ of a man whose appeal was all about mystery

David Bowie: Finding Fame review: BBC documentary thankfully fails to ‘make sense’ of a man whose appeal was all about mystery

by Roisin O'Connor

What is the purpose of the music documentary?

For controversial Michael Jackson film Leaving Neverland, it’s to give a voice to those previously deprived of one.

In Netflix’s Fyre, directors sought to work out what exactly happened to cause what was billed as a luxury music festival to descend into utter chaos.

In David Bowie: Finding Fame – released ahead of the 50th anniversary of Space Oddity – the BBC sets out to tell the “untold story” of how David Robert Jones became the immortal Ziggy Stardust, and changed the entire landscape of music as he did so.

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