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Video site YouTube has done a u-turn on David Bowie's controversial video for his new single 'The Next Day', with the track no longer banned from viewers. Watch it below.

Directed by Floria Sigismundi, who was also responsible for the Tilda Swinton-starring video for 'The Stars (Are Out Tonight)', the video sees Bowie performing with a band in a pub full of priests and cardinals, and stars Gary Oldman.

Alongside Oldman the promo features Marion Cotillard. Oldman plays a corrupt-looking priest while Cotillard is a saint-like character, eventually drenching other members of the cast in blood spraying from her stigmata.

Towards the end of the clip Oldman shouts at Bowie, 'You see this? This is your doing, you called yourself a prophet."

The clip is full of bizarre and shocking images, including a man self-flaggelating, a woman with lower eyelashes six inches long and eyeballs served at the bar.

But any suggestions of Bowie's frailty that might have arisen from the 'Where Are We Now' video are dispelled here as the icon puts on an energetic performance.

This is not the first time Bowie and Oldman have joined forces. They previously worked together in 1995 when they recorded a duet of Bowie's 'You've Been Around' for guitarist Reeves Gabrels' album The Sacred Squall Of Now.

Watch the video for 'The Next day' below

They worked together again in 1996 on the Jean-Michel Basquiat biopic Basquiat, where Bowie played Andy Warhol and Oldman played a fellow painter.

At the end of the video for 'The Next Day' the cast assemble as if in a renassiance painting and Bowie thanks Gary and Marion before disappearing.

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