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This is one of the most exciting finds
in the archive.
It's the storyboards for an unrealised film about the world of Diamond Dogs and it gives you
such an amazing insight into the universe that Bowie imagined around that album.
It describes this dystopian city that Bowie was imagining, which was inspired
by all sorts of different influences from Fritz Lang's Metropolis
to William Burrough's The Wild Boys. And
somehow all those things come together,
as Bowie's so good at doing, and come out in this amazing synthesis.
Hunger City is really the dystopian city that then is imagined as the set for the Diamond Dogs tour
with these crumbling skyscrapers and bridges and urban grunge feel to it.
It was an incredibly complex set.
It cost thousands of dollars to produce
and about thirty five people everyday to put it up.
And this became very difficult over the long tour.
And it was quite a controversial move because Bowie wanted to keep the rest of his band
behind their scenes, behind the set, which they didn't really like at all.
While Bowie was up as the, sort of, lonely soul star figure in the show.
And there were quite a lot of fights around that during the tour. But it was part of his vision for the show,
that it wouldn't be like your average rock concert.
It would  be much more theatrical, much more operatic even.
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