Why bother with clips from the movie our latest cover featured in, or a sad homemade video, when you can just use the clip of Placebo and David Bowie performing live?
Exactly-you don't bother with the others.
In 1997, Placebo were asked to play at David Bowie's 50th birthday party celebration at Madison Square Garden, and selected the T. Rex classic, '20th Century Boy'. They also played the song with Bowie at the 1997 BRIT Awards. A year later, the band recorded a studio version of the song for the soundtrack to the movie 'Velvet Goldmine', a movie in which the band also performed the song. It was never officially released as a single, however.
T. Rex released the original in 1973, reaching number 3 on the UK Singles chart. The song was never an original track on a full-length album, but it was included as a bonus track on the reissue of the band's 1973 album 'Tanx'.
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