"Here's David!" At NBC/Burbank For Bowie's September 1980 "Tonight Show" Appearance

Three weeks before debuting on Broadway in "The Elephant Man," David Bowie sang two songs on "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson." I was there.

As fans camped out overnight for the day of taping for The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, I didn’t want to be one of those two hundred. Not that the NBC Studios Burbank, California sidewalks weren’…