Fact #173038
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David Bowie And The Lower Third audition for the BBC's Talent Selection Group in London, England, UK, Europe, in hopes of getting work on BBC music radio and tv shows. The trio performs Chim-Chim-Cheree and an original composition called Baby That's A Promise but the Selection group is singularly unimpressed, describing the band as a "Routine beat group" with "nothing to recommend it." Bowie himself was called an "amateur sounding vocalist who sings wrong notes and out of tune."