Multiple dancing Bowies in bonkers 1978 Italian TV clip (video)

Richard Metzger says:

This 1978 clip features the eternally popular Raffaella Carrà (now pushing 70) singing Cole Porter’s “Night and Day” as bald, mustachioed eye-patch wearing sci-fi weirdos, um, assist her..
That’s only the “night” part, just wait until the troupe of caped, dancing “Aladdin Sane” clones show up near the end!

Watch the video at Dangerous Minds.

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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Anon_Mahna

You know, as I was watching the video all I could hear was Flight of the Concords singing “Bowie’s in spaaace, Bowie’s in spaaace…”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR2L98gobTQ
pjcamp

Well.

Um.

That was something then. I quite like the “Pigs in Space” ship.
Alan

I’m afraid to go to sleep now, only because I’m afraid I’ll dream this.
ackpht

I’d say the spaceship owes more to Space: 1999 than the Muppet Show. Delightfully weird, in any case.
Quiet Wyatt

The eyepatch dudes’ herky-robot dance (with the wonderfully out-of-step mustache man) was the highlight for me. Burly-bunch Bowies were an anticlimax.
Antinous / Moderator

So Many Sequins, So Little Talent.

They did, however, anticipate the Borg, ladies of the Centauri court and MST3K.
- kP
  
  As the assorted Bowie’s emerged from the tunnel, my prevailing thought was, “We’ve Got Movie Sign!!!” But still, for my money, Jaan Pehechaan Ho takes the cake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyEnG_DEB1I
Wingnut

If Fellini saw such weird surreal things on TV, would he describe it as “me-esque”?
voiceinthedistance

Bat shit crazy never goes out of style!
Mitchell Glaser

The bald chicks in trenchcoats looked like Cenobites.
http://twitter.com/ducchau99 duc chau

Can someone please point out a non-bonkers 1978 Italian TV clip for me? Thanks.
Jan_Willem

In space no one can hear you sing.
penguinchris

I imagine all the people involved in the production having no idea WTF is going on, having to place trust in a crazy director who’s always tripping that it’ll all come together in the end.
noah django

No embed here on BB? Trying to get some clicks over to DM, eh? A little quid-pro-quo? Not that it’s any of my business, but sure seems unusual. Also, DM does love them some Eye-talians, I notice.
- millie fink
  
  I didn’t appreciate the Nitflix popup when I went over there.
feltmountain

Oh Raffaella Carrà, this exaplins so much. As seen on Doctor Who, Do it, do it again!
http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch

To be fair, it was the 70s. Collectively, humanity was a bit high from all the pot smoke wafting around the world.
timquinn

Oooh, I love a lad insane.
capsteve

i’m digging the outfits on the dancing ladies at the beginning and end of the number. outfits like that woulda landed this time capsule treasure on the cutting room floor by the BS&P
TombKing

Yeah the 70′s…and Italy a magic combination.
Thanks Xeni for making the morning wonderfully fun and surreal.