1971 09 25 Aylesbury Aylesbury `71.

Aylesbury `71.

Track Listing...
01-Fill Your Heart (2:36).
02-Buzz The Fuzz (3:01).
03-Space Oddity (4:18).
04-Amsterdam (3:08).
05-The Supermen (2:44).
06-Oh! You Pretty Things (3:12).
07-Eight Line Poem (2:47).
08-Changes (3:43).
09-Song For Bob Dylan (3:53).
10-Andy Warhol (2:47).
11-Queen Bitch (3:01).
12-Looking For A Friend (3:15).
13-Round And Round (3:23).
14-Waiting For The Man (3:53).

Ratting out of 10: 6.

Here is a transcription of what was said during gig...
Announcer: "Just a little bit, get closer, alright ok. Now let's have a very
warm Friars Aylesbury reception for a very rare appearance of David Bowie."

David Bowie: "Thank you Peter, good evening, hello, this is Michael Ronson,
he's a guitarist who works with me a lot, get yourselves sat down. (tunes
guitar).

"We'll have a band on a bit later for this, but we'll do some solo things
first if we can slowly... Anybody who has seen me before knows that I don't
do many gigs and this is one of the few exceptions. So we're gonna start
slowly till we get the hang of it again coz we're not used to it. The first
song is called FILL YOUR HEART and is by an American gentleman called Biff
Rose. Can I have something to drink. Thank you ok. Are you gonna get a bit
nearer (talking to Ronson laughing). To the mike (sarcastically)."

Mick Ronson: "Hello."

David Bowie: "Yeah, that's it. As you all know it's a long way down, anyway
I'm back again."

(PLAYS 'FILL YOUR HEART').

David Bowie: "Thanks very much. We didn't know what kind of songs to do
tonight, so we just decided to endeavour to sing the kind of songs that
we'll hope you'll enjoy. It's what we call entertainment, we want to
entertain you. Entertain you it's an old word, we want to make you happy coz
we want to be happy doing them. The next one to follow that is also another
Biff Rose number. I'm a bit keen on his songs I think they are very good,
very funny. He's a very overrated (laughs) underrated songwriter, sorry
Biff, and he's been working in America for about 5 years and nobody over
here is buying his records and not many people in America seem to either and
the album this comes from is called THE THORN IN MRS ROSES SIDE and it's a
good album to buy it's called BUZZ THE FUZZ and it's a Los Angeles song."

(PLAYS 'BUZZ THE FUZZ').

David Bowie: "Ta (intro to SPACE ODDITY) This is one of my own that we get
over with as soon as possible."

(PLAYS 'SPACE ODDITY').

David Bowie: "Thank you. That's very good of you, thank you. This is a...
a... I want to go to another um, number by another songwriter yet again.
It's by a French composer called Jacques Brel, who was writing a long time
ago and he wrote this song about 15 years ago and it was called PORT OF
AMSTERDAM, it was true then, it's not untrue now, meaning insufficient. If
we're I haven't been up very long, you see I'm very bad at getting up,
always been bad at getting up haven't you? Terrible. When I was at school my
mother could only get me up. She found out the trick of getting me up, she
would put on a black dress and sit on the bed and cry. I'd be up like a
shot. Enough of this frivolity. This is the Jacques Brel number anyway
called PORT OF AMSTERDAM."

PLAYS 'PORT OF AMSTERDAM'.

David Bowie: "Thank you very much indeed. We thought it'd be nice to bring
the boys on to do this gig with us before we go off to America in a few
months. We're going to America, the land of subways. The subways are rather
like the Underground, you still get lots of people who wait for hours for
the train, they all have that thing of going to the edge of the platform and
looking down into a tunnel. I don't know what they expect to come out? Do
they expect something other than a train to come out of it? You have to be a
sadist or a masochist to take the subway in America, coz if you go on in a
crowd within 5 or 10 minutes somebody's got a good grip on you (in an
American accent) 'Stay on 3 more stops and I'll give you 50 cents', it's
really quite grim and they've got a Miss Subway contest, see, and I think
you only condition for entry is you have to look as though you've been hit
by one from some of the entries we saw when we was out there. Anyway that's
where we're going America. Land of the living, land of the dead. - Land of
the dead, they've got lots murders, killings as you've probably read about
in the papers. That crime wave and it's kind of inbred in them to murder and
kill and kike a family man will get into a car and drive at 90, bumper to
bumper on long stretches of motorway, they come up with original ways of
killing people, you read reports of old man battered to death weapon
believed to have been Durex filled with ball bearings. That's not the only
problem you see coz you've got the apartments problem as well, because you
just can't get an apartment. I stayed in quite a nice one whilst I was
there, all couples no women and I wouldn't say ?????? island. I don't know
if any of you know America at all, not exactly quite, but I took 13 showers
for excitement. One evening somebody comes and says I'm really sorry I'm
afraid I have some very bad news for you, your grandmother has died. Oh
that's awful, has her apartment gone yet, did she die with central heating,
really terrible. Anyway we're going there later. They should be on now, are
you on, this is SUPERMEN. This is one from an album that we did last year,
which sold like hot cakes in Beckenham and no where else. It's called THE
MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD that's the name of the album and this is one of the
numbers off it called SUPERMEN."

PLAYS 'THE SUPERMEN'.

David Bowie: "Thank you. That is Woody Woodmansey, that is Trevor Bolder,
they play with me. We're gonna have a pianist on in a few moments. I'll just
get this up coz I don't need it down again, hang on. This is a number I
wrote for myself and for the album and somebody else did it, I won't say
anymore, we'll do it anyway."

PLAYS 'OH! YOU PRETTY THINGS'.
PLAYS 'EIGHT LINE POEM'.

David Bowie: "Thank you. This is where we get Tom Parker on stage, ex
Animal. Tom will take over piano and play it properly for the rest of the
evening. The first thing we're gonna do with Tom is one in which I don't
know the guitar chords so I'll stand here like a twit, like used to singing
like one. ??? called CHANGES a new one from the album."

PLAYS 'CHANGES'.

David Bowie: "Presumptuousness of the songwriter is that he feels he can
pick on anybody, I'm no exception, but this is not a picking song it's just
about somebody, it's called SONG FOR BOB DYLAN."

PLAYS 'SONG FOR BOB DYLAN'.

David Bowie: "Thank you, thanks very much. That was written during a spate
of people songs. I got hung up on writing about people, these kind of well
known figures and what they stood for. I believe very much in the media of
the streets, street messages and one of the leaders in that field is a man
called Andy Warhol and this is, this is about him it's called ANDY WARHOL."

PLAYS 'ANDY WARHOL'.

David Bowie: "This is one with the band again. It's the third in a series of
people songs I did. This one is about a friend of mine in America called Lou
Reed, who's the singer with a band out there called Velvet Underground who
aren't that well known (audience cheer) yes they are sorry, sorry very well
known band over here called Velvet Underground, they don't know about them
in Beckenham I tell ya. Anyway Lou is very funny, outrageously funny and
this is a song for Lou and it's called QUEEN BITCH."

PLAYS 'QUEEN BITCH'.
PLAYS 'LOOKING FOR A FRIEND'.

David Bowie: "Thank you, this is our last number. Thank you very much."

PLAYS 'ROUND AND ROUND'.

David Bowie: "Thank you very much, thank you."

(Audience cheer for encore)

Announcer: "David Bowie, come on let's ?????"

David Bowie: "This is one thank God you'll probably appreciate not being in
Beckenham, are you ready Mick? It's a Velvet Underground number, it's called
WAITING FOR THE MAN."

PLAYS 'WAITING FOR THE MAN'.

This is from my own master of this gig. It has been and still is in my possession. It was also filmed but that has never showed up as yet!
The sound isn't bad considering it's age and is very listenable. Mr B is in fine form with some excellent singing and the band play very well.
This is the only gig from the pre Ziggy days that has turned up with the exception of the BBC sessions and various demos and outtakes.

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