David Bowie is among the few people who have found themselves banned from iconic comedy show Saturday Night Live. The Starman singer was blacklisted from appearing for three years after his song choice struck the wrong chord with the show's legendary producer Lorne Michaels. “I was banned from the show," the star admitted in a 1999 interview with Pulse magazine.

Scheduled to play his new single David instead made a decision to play a song that had extremely negative connotations for Lorne. “I was scheduled to perform a single from my Earthling album called Telling Lies. Just before the band took the stage I decided to take the p*** out of Lorne a bit because I knew he wasn't happy with me,” David recalled. Instead he chose to sing 1981’s Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), which Lorne had privately confessed to David was “absolutely terrifying” to him and reminded him of a dark time in his life.

Indeed Lorne, now 80, was so unamused that when the song was over, David was immediately escorted from the studio.

“They didn’t waste any time. The real shame of it was there was a lovely fruit basket in my dressing room that I wanted to take back to my hotel.

"I obviously didn’t get to. I was very sore about that. Still am, to tell you the truth,” he quipped.

However time is a great healer and just three years later David, who died in January 2016 at the age of 69, was invited back on the show and the ban lifted.

“We’re (Lorne and David) mates. We have been since the 70s. He knows now that I was just trying to get a rise out of him.

"Maybe I could have done it less, I don’t know, showy. But the air has been cleared, obviously,” he reflected.

David's band added him to the annals of the 50-year-old comedy shows hstory as one of the people barred fromt he show.

Others include Sinead O'Connor, who famously tore up a picture of the Pope on the show; Elvis Costello, who also got into trouble for playing an unexpected song on the programme; and Kanye West who had made seven appearances on the programme before his ban for making a slew of aggressive comments towards former cast member Pete Davison, who at one point was his ex-Kim Kardashian’s boyfriend.