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Music video made from David Bowie's beautiful TV commercials for Japanese booze

David Bowie – Crystal Japan – Promo - 1980


In 1980, David Bowie did a series of Japanese TV commercials for Crystal Jun Rock, a Japanese liquor. See below. “The money is a useful thing,” Bowie later said about doing the ads.


The soundtrack was the gorgeous track “Crystal Japan” that Bowie released first on a couple 7-inch singles and then as a bonus track on the CD reissue of “Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps).” Bowie fan Nacho Video recut the three TV commercials into the lovely music video above for “Crystal Japan.”


(via /r/ObscureMedia)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VkVowfxU1U

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