David Bowie - When I’m Five

Official video for When I’m Five by David Bowie. Subscribe now: Here is David Bowie in early 1969 singing When I’m Five, a song that he’d begun working on the previous year. The version used for Kenneth Pitt’s film, Love You Till Tuesday, had been recorded for a BBC session in May 1968. The song is sung from a child’s perspective, with all the requisite desperation to grow up and echoes ’There Is A Happy Land’ from his debut album. With references to his parents and ’Grandfather Jones’, as well as a dog called ’Bonzo’, When I’m Five has all the hallmarks of 60s Bowie, quirky, childlike and never less than interesting and he ensures all of his then-recent training as a mime is to the fore in the film. Digitally restored to 1080p HD. Socials: