David Bowie: Finding Fame

Saw him live a few times live - a real performer. Will watch this - cheers!

One of the things that always struck me was that even outside of music, film and art, he could change his style and always look fresh and iconic.
 
Saw him on Glass Spider not so good and on Sound and Vision and he was brilliant
Yeah Glass Spider was a bit of a let down, I saw that at Wembley stadium.

I saw him on A Reality tour, his last tour, which was awesome.

I also saw him in 95 supported by Morrissey on the Outside tour, that was a wierd gig, Morrissey left the tour shortly afterwards!
 
He was playing Manchester in 2002 my girlfriend at the time lived in Manchester, wanted to go and insisted on getting the tickets. I was working factory jobs and getting paid direct into her account.

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What a great surprise it was when it turned out she opted to buy Green Day tickets, supported by No Doubt & Less Than Jake (her favourite bands)

that was the end of that relationship.
 
Wouldn’t be a Bowie thread without mentioning Mick Ronson, so there it is.

Never got to see him live but must know the farewell concert and live at Santa Monica off by heart, David live was a favourite in my youth too (mid 90s).
 
Wouldn’t be a Bowie thread without mentioning Mick Ronson, so there it is.

Never got to see him live but must know the farewell concert and live at Santa Monica off by heart, David live was a favourite in my youth too (mid 90s).
Mick Ronson features in this documentary and his time at Haddon Hall.
 
I enjoyed that and worth a watch if you have time.

I was lucky enough to see Bowie on his Let's Dance tour and thought he was brilliant.

Someone I know was one of the two tour managers on the Serious Moonlight tour. They were on the Australian leg and had a couple of days off…Bowie was organising a band/ crew meal
He said he fancied a Japanese restaurant, everyone agreed. So he got the tour plane to fly to them to Japan for dinner, and back to Oz afterwards. Most expensive dinner ever🤣
 
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Someone I know was one of the two tour managers on the Serious Moonlight tour. They were on the Australian leg and had a couple of days off…Bowie was organising a band/ crew meal
He said he fancied a Japanese restaurant, everyone agreed. So he got the tour plane to fly to them to Japan for dinner, and back to Oz afterwards. Most expensive dinner ever🤣
Do you know, I always thought it was called The Let's Dance Tour and have just learned something new. ;)

I've just seen this and can't believe the price I paid to get in to see him.



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1973 Middlesbrough Town Hall, 50p a ticket. I was 16. The first Ziggy gigs - absolutely astonishing, and one of the highlights of my life.

I’ve never seen so many jaws drop as when he and the Spiders walked on. He was like nothing I’d EVER seen or experienced before. It’s hard to overstate just how macho Middlesbrough was then, and these guys looked like gay aliens.

And within 5 minutes he had the whole place eating out of his hand. Beautiful (yes), charismatic, confident, charming, really funny, and the music was off the scale brilliant. Best moment was him sitting alone on a stool with an acoustic, singing Jacques Brel’s ‘Port Of Amsterdam’ - you could have heard a pin drop.

The place went nuts.

Up until that night (and growing up in Teesside in the 60’s, it was understandable) the world had seemed monochrome and pretty grim; it suddenly became colourful, sexy and fully expressed. I was never the same again.
 
1973 Middlesbrough Town Hall, 50p a ticket. I was 16. The first Ziggy gigs - absolutely astonishing, and one of the highlights of my life.

I’ve never seen so many jaws drop as when he and the Spiders walked on. He was like nothing I’d EVER seen or experienced before. It’s hard to overstate just how macho Middlesbrough was then, and these guys looked like gay aliens.

And within 5 minutes he had the whole place eating out of his hand. Beautiful (yes), charismatic, confident, charming, really funny, and the music was off the scale brilliant. Best moment was him sitting alone on a stool with an acoustic, singing Jacques Brel’s ‘Port Of Amsterdam’ - you could have heard a pin drop.

The place went nuts.

Up until that night (and growing up in Teesside in the 60’s, it was understandable) the world had seemed monochrome and pretty grim; it suddenly became colourful, sexy and fully expressed. I was never the same again.
Great post and a thumbs up doesn’t do it justice.
 
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'Life on Tour With Bowie' by Sean Mayes tells you what it does in the title from the POV of one of his backing musicians. Fascinating insight into - ahem - different times.
 
American tour crew itineraries in the 80’s, they’re the ones I’m familiar with, had all the necessary information on them for that days gig. On some tours there was an addendum at the bottom of each page just a number 18 or 21 usually.
Apart from states like Alabama, Arkansas, and a couple of other Deep South states.
It just said. “Don’t even think about it”
Those numbers were the ages of consent😉
 
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