A week after taping his appearance for "Marc", Marc Bolan died in a car crash. A month after recording "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy", Crosby died of a heart attack on 14 October. Biographer David Buckley writes: "In a rather macabre coincidence, Bowie had symbolically administered the last rites to both performers and the eras they represented." Bowie later commented on the coincidence, stating "I was getting seriously worried about whether I should appear on TV because everyone I was going on with was kicking it the following week."