One night in London: Teenage music fan Brad Miele spent the mid year of 1984 going around Europe. One night in London, Miele coincidentally found the shooting of Bowie's music video "Jazzin' for Blue Jean," a drawn out 21-minute film exhibiting single "Blue American teen Brad Miele spent the late spring of 1984 investigating Europe by rail with his Sony Walkman in his ears.
Days scrounging through Paris record stores and nights inspecting Berlin nightlife were soundtracked by Miele's number one collections.
Miele's mom additionally went around Europe that mid year, yet while she settled on five star lodgings and voyages through renowned city milestones, Miele and his sibling remained in inns and went through their days meandering side roads, searching for the places where their number one specialists set down tracks.
For Miele, who experienced childhood in New Jersey, the apex of music was David Bowie, the clique British artist. His walls were papered with Bowie banners. He followed the man some of the time known as Ziggy Stardust. Bowie was Miele's legend - - and being in Europe just caused Bowie's music to reverberate even more.
"I can simply recollect strolling around arbitrary European small urban areas, paying attention to David Bowie, glancing through record receptacles," Miele, presently 53,
One night, during their visit in the UK, Miele and his sibling got together with his mom for supper. She was remaining in the rich Savoy Hotel on the Strand, a clamoring London lane fixed with theaters and bars.
Miele was in top Bowie mode that evening: a dark wide-overflowed cap supplementing a twofold breasted jacket, loose jeans, supports and a necktie. On his feet, he wore a sweet sets of red Oxfords, to pay tribute to Bowie's "We should Dance" verses: "Put on your red shoes and dance the blues."
"I most certainly was looking for that David Bowie, London vibe," says Miele.
After supper, Miele went out into the night alone. His consideration was promptly attracted to a rear entryway adjoining the Savoy, where a gathering had assembled.
Mielle says it's unusual for him to remember now, yet he thought: "That is plainly David Bowie down there."
He advanced down the road, close to the Victorian Savoy Theater.
"It nearly showed itself for me as it was working out," Miele says now. "It very well may be no other thing. And afterward out of nowhere, I see David Bowie scaling a drainpipe, up over the horde of individuals."
It seemed like Miele had meandered the length and expansiveness of Europe with Bowie's tunes in his ears. Presently, the man behind the music was a couple of yards before him.
Venturing into the edge
Bowie was busy shooting a music video, "Jazzin' for Blue Jean," a lengthy 21-minute film displaying prospective single "Blue Jean." In it, Bowie plays two characters: clumsy Vic, who is attempting to dazzle a young lady, and Screaming Lord Byron, a Bowie-esque hero.
Miele reviews there were several blockades gotten up positioned stop bystanders strolling into the shot, however the dozen or so individuals watching the shooting were allowed to do as such, as long as they caused no interruptions.
In "Jazzin' for Blue Jean," there's a second where Bowie, as Vic, shimmies up a drainpipe, attempting to break into a club.
"I happened upon the shooting of that specific scene, that they did again and again with [Bowie's] twofold," says Miele.
Now and again the chief would trade in the genuine Bowie. Miele stood watching, in dismay.
Things got much more dreamlike when one of the group moved toward Miele and inquired as to whether he needed to be an extra until the end of the shoot.
"I nearly passed on," composed a young Miele in his journal the next day.
He was told to stroll behind Bowie in one of the shots outside the club. In the video, he can be spotted when Bowie purchases tickets from a hawker - - he says he's the man in the cap who strolls behind