Alan Yentob's lauded Cracked Actor documentary on David Bowie marks its 50th anniversary this month. Broadcast by the BBC in January 1975 as part of the Omnibus strand, it was a cultural ...

During his 1990s resurgence, David Bowie's delve into industrial saw him join with Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor for the paranoid 'I'm Afraid of Americans'.

including this performance of Cracked Actor (from 1973's Aladdin Sane album) complete with cigarette in hand throughout - something you could still get away with in 1999 if you were David Bowie.