Bowie: A Biography - JFK247

much a rock ’n’ roll sort of character. He and myself
had gone a bit folksy, but … When we were making
the Love You Till Tuesday film … it was when they
started to fall out a bit. I never saw it. But I could feel
the vibe while we were filming.”
Love You Till Tuesday was a film conceived by
Bowie and Ken Pitt as a way to showcase all of
David’s talents. Pitt raised the money for it himself,
and given his good taste, the production value of the
finished project is indeed top-notch. Beautifully lit
and shot in lush “Eastman Color,” it is, unfortunately,
a throwback to the cheeky-chappy mugging of
Bowie’s Newley period and is by and large a
collection of promotional films for singles like the title
track that had already failed to chart.
The strategy behind making Love You Till
Tuesday was that if people could see David actually
performing the songs, along with mime interludes,
they would finally connect with what Bowie was all
about. It can be argued that much of Love You Till
Tuesday, which was helmed by a director of little
acclaim named Malcolm J. Thomson, was ultimately
influenced by the way Pitt viewed Bowie’s image:
shampooed, smiling, dressed in neat gray suits with
comically oversized belt buckles or wild colors. The
real Bowie of that period, showcased in the
segments featuring Hermione and Hutchinson, was
a bit more of a musky street hippie, but the bulk of
Love You Till Tuesday reduces Bowie to some
scrubbed and polished showbiz action figure or doll.
In the segment filmed for the track “When I’m