“Every now and then the camera catches sight of [John Lennon] in the background, sitting there with his guitar playing hits of the day and saying, ‘What the bloody hell are you doing, Bowie? It’s so negative, all your shit, all this Diamond Dogs mutant crap!’”

David Bowie recalls filming the Diamond Dogs test footage in 1975 (1996), cited in The Complete David Bowie (2004 edition), p.560