1972 12 28 Manchester Last Stand 1972.

Last Stand 1972.

Track Listing...
01-Ode To Joy/Intro (Not on my copy!).
02-Hang Onto Yourself.
03-Ziggy Stardust.
04-The Supermen.
05-Changes.
06-Life On Mars.
07-Five Years.
08-The Width Of A Circle.
09-John, I'm Only Dancing.
10-Moonage Daydream.
11-The Jean Genie.
12-Suffragette City.
13-Rock N Roll Suicide.

Rating out of 10: 5.

Sound wise this is much the same as "Christmas With Ziggy". So there is a lot of noise and sound fluctuation, but then we have to bear in mind the age and recording equipment.
All in all if you want it, take it.

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1972 12 24 London Christmas With Ziggy.

Christmas With Ziggy.

Track Listing...
01-Ode To Joy.
02-Lets Spend The Night Together.
03-Hang Onto Yourself.
04-Ziggy Stardust.
05-Changes.
06-The Supermen.
07-Life On Mars.
08-Five Years.
09-The Width Of A Circle.
10-John I'm Only Dancing.
11-Moonage Daydream.
12-The Jean Genie.
13-Suffragette City.
14-Rock N Roll Suicide.

Rating out of 10: 5.

This suffers from a lot of noise, with fluctuating sound, which is a pity.
This was only a short gig and is complete.
There is a bit of talking, which can be heard quite clearly.
As i said it's listenable, but with noise.

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1972 Tour Dates.

THE ZIGGY STARDUST TOUR
1972.
Rehearsals/Warm Up.
1972 01 19 London Royal Ballroom, Tottenham Road.
1972 01 29 Aylesbury Friars.
1972 02 03 Coventry Lancaster Arts Festival.

First UK Tour.
1972 02 10 London, Toby Jug, Tolworth.
1972 02 11 High Wycombe, Town Hall.
1972 02 12 London, Great Hall, Imperial College.
1972 02 23 Chichester, Chichester College.
1972 02 24 Wallington, Public Hall.
1972 02 25 Eltham, Avery Hill College.
1972 02 26 Sutton Coldfield, Belfray Hall.
1972 02 28 Glasgow, City Hall.
1972 02 29 Sunderland, Locarno.
1972 03 01 Bristol, Bristol University.
1972 03 04 Portsmouth, Pier Pavilion (Not Guildhall) Confirmed by Nicky Graham.
1972 03 07 Yeovil, Yeovil College.
1972 03 11 Southampton, Guildhall.
1972 03 14 Bournemouth, Chelsea Village.
1972 04 17 Birmingham, Town Hall.
1972 04 20 Harlow, The Playhouse.
1972 04 21 Manchester, Free Trade Hall.
1972 04 30 Plymouth, Guildhall.
1972 05 06 Kingston, Kingston Polytechnic.
Live At Kingston Polytechnic.
Live In England `71.
1972 05 07 Hemel Hempstead, Pavillion.
1972 05 11 Worthing, Assembley Hall.
1972 05 12 London, Central Polytechnic.
1972 05 13 Slough, Technical College.
1972 05 14 Oxford, Polytechnic. Not played confirmed by Nicky Graham.
1972 05 19 Oxford, Polytechnic. Confirmed by Nicky Graham.
1972 05 20 Oxford, Polytechnic. Not played confirmed by Nicky Graham.
1972 05 25 Bournemouth, Chelsea Village.
1972 05 27 Epsom, Ebbeisham Hall.
1972 06 02 Newcastle, City Hall.
1972 06 03 Liverpool, Liverpool Stadium.
1972 06 04 Preston, Guildhall.
Slow Voice On A Wave Of Phase.
1972 06 06 Bradford, St George's Hall.
1972 06 07 Sheffield, City Hall.
1972 06 08 Middlesborough, Town Hall.
1972 06 10 Leicester, Polytechnic.
1972 06 13 Bristol, Colston Hall.
1972 06 16 Torquay, Town Hall.
1972 06 17 Oxford, Town Hall.
1972 06 19 Southampton, Civic Hall.
Ziggys 25 Minutes.
1972 06 21 Dunstable, Civic Hall.
1972 06 24 Guildford, Civic Hall.
1972 06 25 Croydon, Greyhound.
1972 07 01 Weston-Super-Mare, Winter Gardens.
1972 07 02 Torquay, Rainbow Pavillion.
1972 07 08 London, Royal Festival Hall.
Save The Whales.
David Bowie With Lou Reed.
1972 07 14 London, Kings Cross Cinema.
The Queen Of Kings Cross.
1972 07 15 Aylesbury, Fiars.
I Can`t Explain.
Aylesbury Nights.
1972 07 18 Aylesbury, Friars. (Unconfirmed).
This Boy. (Is from 27th August at Bristol).
Aylesbury Nights.

Rehearsals.
1972 08 01-14 London, Theatre Royal, Stratford East.

Tour Continued.
1972 08 19 London, Rainbow Theatre.
Starman Over The Rainbow.
1972 08 20 London, Rainbow Theatre.
The Magic Theatre.
1972 08 27 Bristol, Locarno.
This Boy.
1972 08 31 Bournemouth, Starkers.
1972 09 01 Doncaster, Top Rank.
1972 09 02 Manchester, Hard Rock.
1972 09 03 Manchester, Hard Rock.
1972 09 04 Liverpool, Top Rank.
1972 09 05 Sunderland, Top Rank.
1972 09 06 Sheffield, Top Rank.
1972 09 07 Hanley, Top Rank.

First US Tour.
1972 09 22 Cleveland, Public Hall.
1972 09 24 Memphis, Ellis Auditorium.
1972 09 28 New York, Carnegie Hall.
1972 09 29 Washington, Kennedy Centre.
1972 10 01 Boston, The Music Hall.
Music Hall Memories.
1972 10 07 Chicago, Public Auditorium.
Chicago Glam.
Wowing The Windy City.
1972 10 08 Detroit, Fisher Theatre.
1972 10 09 Indianapolis
1972 10 10 St Louis.
1972 10 11 Kansas City.
1972 10 15 Salt Lake City.
1972 10 20 Los Angeles, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.
Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars.
1972 10 21 Los Angeles, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.
1972 10 27 San Francisco, Winterland Auditorium.
1972 10 28 San Francisco, Winterland Auditorium.
1972 10 31 Seattle.
1972 11 04 Phoenix, Celebrity Theatre.
1972 11 13 Oklahoma City (Probably Cancelled).
1972 11 14 New Orleans, Lagola University.
1972 11 17 Fort Lauderdale, Pirate's Cove.
Drive In Saturday.
1972 11 18 Atalanta.
1972 11 20 Nashville, Municipal Auditorium.
1972 11 22 New Orleans, The Warehouse.
1972 11 23 Louisville.
1972 11 24 Cincinnati.
1972 11 25 Cleveland, Entertainment Arena.
Va Va Va Voom.
Ziggy's Invasion Of America.
1972 11 26 Cleveland, Entertainment Arena.
1972 11 28 Pittsburgh, The Stanley Theatre.

Second UK Tour.
1972 12 23 London, Rainbow Theatre.
1972 12 24 London, Rainbow Theatre.
Christmas With Ziggy.
Bowie's Back Live At The Rainbow.
1972 12 28 Manchester, Hard Rock.
Last Stand 1972.
Manchester 72.
The Hard Rock Manchester.

These are all the live gigs for 1972. can anyone confirm that the first US Tour is correct or any cancelled, and also was there 2 shows on the 24th and 28th of December.
Looking foward to everyone's input on this.
I've tried to list all bootlegs that are known, with the exception of Santa Monica.
I don't have all these only the ones i'm posting.

I realise that this is by no means correct.

1972 11 25 Cleveland Va Va Va Voom.

Va Va Va Voom.

Track Listing...
01-Hang Onto Yourself.
02-Ziggy Stardust.
03-Changes.
04-The Supermen.
05-Life On Mars.
06-Five Years.
07-Space Oddity.
08-Andy Warhol.
09-Drive In Saturday.
10-The Width Of A Circle.
11-John I'm Only Dancing.
12-Moonage Daydream.
13-Band Intro.
14-Waiting For The Man.
15-The Jean Genie.
16-Suffragette City.
17-Rock N Roll Suicide.

Rating out of 10: 7.

I gave this a 7, but there is some crackling through this but the sound is listenable. We have to bear in mind the year with these old gigs.
Much the same set list again and "Drive In Saturday" is played acoustically again and is brilliant,
This is the last gig i have from the first tour of the USA. So now we move foward to the second UK tour of December 72/January 73.

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1972 11 17 Florida Drive In Saturday.

Drive In Saturday.

Track Listing...
01-Ode To Joy.
02-Hang Onto Yourself.
03-Ziggy Stardust.
04-Changes.
05-The Supermen.
06-Life On Mars.
07-Five Years.
08-Space Oddity.
09-Andy Warhol.
10-Drive In Saturday.
11-The Width Of A Circle.
12-John I'm Only Dancing.
13-Moonage Daydream.
14-Waiting For The Man.
15-The Jean Genie.
16-Suffragette City.
17-Rock N Roll Suicide.

Rating out of 10: 6.

This one i'm afraid is just a little boomy. And suffers from high recording levels, which is a shame. But you can still listen to it.
Bowie played "Drive In Saturday" for the first time. he gives the song a long introduction, explaining what it is about. And then he plays it acoustically, and very nice it is to.
Another complete gig as well.

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1972 10 07 Chicago Chicago Glam.

Chicago Glam.

Track Listing...
01-Hang Onto Yourself.
02-Ziggy Stardust.
03-The Supermen.
04-Queen Bitch.
05-Changes.
06-Life On Mars.
07-Five Years.
08-Space Oddity.
09-Andy Warhol.
10-My Death.
11-The Width Of A Circle.
12-John I`m Only Dancing.
13-Moonage Daydream.
14-Starman.
15-Waiting For The Man.
16-White Light White Heat.
17-Suffragette City.
18-The Jean Genie.

Rating out of 10: 5.

On this one there is a lot of tape hiss and you can't make out much of the speech. It is listenable, just!
This is the first of the 1972 gigs available that contains "The Jean Genie", which to me sounds a tad too fast! But then you have to remember that these come from very old tapes. According to "The Complete Tapes" Bowie played "Rock N Roll Suicide, but alas it's not included. So more or less complete.
Not much of the first USA tour around, so nice to have.

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UPDATE No 2.

A link to this blog has been posted at bowiewonderworld, and the knowledgeable folk there have pin-pointed some errors in dates and venues. So heres correcting them:

1972 07 14 London The Queen Of Kings Cross.
This is in fact a fake and is compiled of other 1972 recordings. For this information i thank Rubbishness/Kentish.

1972 07 18 Aylesbury This Boy.
It seems Bowie never played Aylesbury on this date and this is in fact Bristol 27th August 1972. For this information i thank Rubbishness/Kentish.

1972 10 01 Boston Music Hall Memories.

Music Hall Memories.

Track Listing...
01-Hang Onto Yourself.
02-Ziggy Stardust.
03-Changes.
04-The Supermen.
05-Life On Mars.
06-Lady Stardust.
07-Queen Bitch.
08-Five Years.
09-Space Oddity.
10-Andy Warhol.
11-My Death.
12-The Width Of A Circle (1).
13-The Width Of A Circle (2).
14-John I'm Only Dancing.
15-Starman.
16-Moonage Daydream.
17-Waiting For The Man.
18-White Light White Heat.
19-Suffragette City.
20-Round And Round.

Rating out of 10: 8.

We are now at the beginning of the first tour of America in Autumn 1972.
Again another gig that has only surfaced in the last few years.
The quality of this is exceptional. It is really good to get something of this quality from the Ziggy era. the taper has done a remarkable job.
The only down part for me was "Width Of A Circle" being split because it is a wicked version.
It is also complete which makes it even better.
If you download nothing else, do this one, you won't regret it one bit.

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1972 08 20 London The Magic Theatre.

The Magic Theatre.

Track Listing...
01-Ode To Joy.
02-Lady Stardust.
03-Hang On To Yourself.
04-Ziggy Stardust.
05-Life On Mars.
06-The Supermen.
07-Changes.
08-Five Years.
09-Space Oddity.
10-Andy Warhol.
11-My Death.
12-The Width Of A Circle.
13-The Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud.
14-Starman.
15-Moonage Daydream.
16-Queen Bitch.
17-Suffragette City.
18-White Light White Heat.
19-Waiting For The Man.

Rating out of 10: 7.

This only surfaced a year or so ago, and is the second night of the "Ziggy Stardust Shows".
Again the lyrics to "Starman" were changed.
This one is much much clearer than "Starman Over The Rainbow"
This is good for the age of it.

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1972 08 19 London Starman Over The Rainbow.

Starman Over The Rainbow.

Track Listing...
01-Intro.
02-Lady Stardust.
03-Hang Onto Yourself.
04-Ziggy Stardust.
05-Life On Mars.
06-The Supermen.
07-Changes.
08-Five Years.
09-Space Oddity.
10-Andy Warhol.
11-My Death.
12-The Width Of A Circle.
13-Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud.
14-Starman.
15-Queen Bitch.
16-Suffragette City.
17-White Light White Heat.
18-Waiting For The Man.
19-Band Intro.
20-Moonage Daydream.

Rating out of 10: 6.

The famous "Ziggy Stardust Show". Well again what can i say that hasn't been said already.
The sound on this is good and very listenable, to my ears anyway.
During "Starman" Bowie changes the lyrics slightly saying "Theres a starman over the rainbow", very nice.
Again, if you are collecting then it's worth a download.

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1972 07 18 Aylesbury This Boy. (Unconfirmed).

This Boy.

This is supposedly Bristol 27th August 1972. And that Bowie never played Aylesbury on this date.

Track Listing...
01-Intro/Hang Onto Yourself.
02-Queen Bitch.
03-John I'm Only Dancing.
04-The Supermen.
05-Ziggy Stardust.
06-Moonage Daydream.
07-Starman.
08-This Boy.
09-The Width Of A Circle.
10-I'm Waiting For The Man.
11-White Light White Heat.
12-Suffragette City.
13-Round And Round.

Rating out of 10: 5.

This has a slightly different set list, and includeds "the new single on RCA records and tapes".
The sound is listenable but there is much tape hiss all the way through and also a grating noise, which may well ruin it for you perfectionists!
Also includeds "Round and Round" as an encore and one of the few gigs to include "This Boy".

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1972 07 15 Aylesbury I Can`t Explain.

I Can`t Explain.

Track Listing...
01-Ode To Joy.
02-Hang On To Yourself.
03-Ziggy Stardust.
04-The Supermen.
05-Queen Bitch.
06-Song For Bob Dylan.
07-Starman.
08-Changes.
09-Five Years.
10-Space Oddity.
11-Andy Warhol.
12-Amsterdam.
13-I Feel Free.
14-Moonage Daydream.
15-I Can't Explain.
16-White Light White Heat.
17-Suffragette City

Rating out of 10: 4 to 5 in places.

After "Ode To Joy" Bowie comes on stage and says "Good evening, alright i'm David Bowie these are the Spiders from Mars and this is some of our rock" and then they blast out "Hang On To Yourself".
RCA flew some journalists from USA to attend this gig. With Bowie achieving rave reviews.
On this upload there is a lot of tape hiss and when Bowie talks it is hard to hear what he is actually saying in places.
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UPDATE No 1.

Re-1971 09 25 Aylesbury Aylesbury `71.
I am looking to upload the Savage jaw version of this. I won't do it direct from the master as it will be shit as i have a deaf ear LOL. But this will be re-upped soon.

Re- 1972 05 06 Kingston Live At Kingston Polytechnic.
I am trying to find another source to re-up this as i don't have a silver to it. This was how i downloaded it. It may take some time. I will keep you informed in further updates.

These are the gigs to follow:
1972 07 15 Aylesbury I Can`t Explain.
1972 07 18 Aylesbury This Boy.
1972 08 19 Rainbow Starman Over The Rainbow.
1972 08 20 Rainbow The Magic Theatre.

Which will then take us onto the first US Tour of Autumn 1972.

Ratings.

I've started to use a rating system. It is as follows...

01-Diabolical.
02-Poor.
03-Poor-Fair.
04-Fair.
05-Fair-Good.
06-Good.
07-Good-Very Good.
08-Very Good.
09-Very Good-Excellent.
10-Excellent.

These are my opinions only, your's may differ.

Hope this helps in the chosing of what to download.

1972 07 14 London The Queen Of Kings Cross. (Unconfirmed).

The Queen Of Kings Cross.

Track Listing...
01-Ziggy Stardust.
02-The Supermen.
03-Queen Bitch.
04-Song For Bob Dylan.
05-Changes.
06-Starman.
07-Five Years.
08-Amsterdam.
09-Andy Warhol.
10-I Feel Free.
11-Moonage Daydream.
12-White Light White Heat.
13-Suffragette City.
14-Rock N Roll Suicide.

Rating out of 10: 4.

This is supposedly a fake, and made up of other 1972 recordings.

This is incomplete. The sound is very grating and when Bowie speaks, it is not recognisable what he is saying.
This was a warm up for the 2 Aylesbury gigs that follow. Once again for completists only.

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1972 07 08 London Save The Whales.

Save The Whales.

Track Listing...
01-Ode To Joy.
02-Hang Onto Yourself.
03-Ziggy Stardust.
04-Life On Mars.
05-The Supermen.
06-Starman.
07-Changes.
08-Five Years.
09-Space Oddity.
10-Andy Warhol.
11-Amsterdam.
12-I Feel Free.
13-Moonage Daydream.
14-White Light White Heat.
15-Waiting For The Man.
16-Sweet Jane.
17-Suffragette City.

Rating out of 10: 6.

What can be said about this gig that hasn't already! Bowie became a star, something he worked for nearly 10 years for.
This is the complete gig with Lou Reed on vocals on "White Light White Heat". "Waiting For The Man" and "Sweet Jane".
The quality of this is good and listenable, well worth a download.

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1972 06 19 Southampton Ziggys 25 Minutes.

Ziggys 25 Minutes.

Track Listing...
01-Ode To Joy.
02-Hang Onto Yourself.
03-Ziggy Stardust.
04-The Supermen.
05-Queen Bitch.
06-Space Oddity.
07-Five Years.
08-Chat.
09-Andy Warhol.

Rating out of 10: 3.

This one surfaced just a little while ago. This is incomplete and of very poor quality and for completists only. Having said that it is a piece of Ziggy history. You've had your warning!

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1972 06 04 Preston Slow Voice On A Wave Of Phase.

Slow Voice On A Wave Of Phase.

Track Listing...
01-Intro.
02-Hang Onto Yourself.
03-Ziggy Stardust.
04-The Supermen.
05-Queen Bitch.
06-Song For Bob Dylan.
07-Starman.
08-Changes.
09-Five Years.
10-Space Oddity.
11-Andy Warhol.
12-Amsterdam.
13-I Feel Free.
14-Moonage Daydream.
15-White Light White Heat.
16-Suffragette City.
17-Waiting For The Man.

Rating out of 10: 5.

This one comes just 2 days before the release of the album "The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars" and roughly 6 weeks after the release of "Starman" as a single. The Bowie/Ziggy momentum was gradualy gathering pace by now. Within weeks bowie's world would change.
The whole gig here, and again they played "I Feel Free". The crowd for this gig is estimated at about 2000-3000 or in Pimm's book 700.
The quality of this is not that good, it's very boomy and quite far back.
Anyway if you are a completist like me then you want.

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1972 05 06 Kinston Live In England `71.

Live In England `71.

Track Listing...
01-Ziggy Stardust.
02-Song For Bob Dylan.
03-Starman.
04-Amsterdam.
05-I Feel Free.
06-White Light White Heat.
07-Gotta Get A Job.
08-Five Years.
09-Rock N Roll Suicide.

No artwork for this sorry.

Rating out of 10: 3.

In my opinion the quality of this is nowhere near as good as the complete "Live At Kingston Polytechnic".
It has a lot more bass to it. It's not something i play much at all.
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1972 05 06 Kingston Live At Kingston Polytechnic.

Live At Kingston Polytechnic.

Track Listing...
01-Hang On To Yourself.
02-Ziggy Stardust.
03-The Supermen.
04-Queen Bitch.
05-Song For Bob Dylan.
06-Changes.
07-Starman.
08-Five Years.
09-Space Oddity.
10-Andy Warhol.
11-Amsterdam.
12-I Feel Free.
13-Moonage Daydream.
14-White Light White Heat.
15-Gotta Get A Job/Hot Pants.
16-Suffragette City.
17-Rock N Roll Suicide.
18-Waiting For The Man.

Rating out of 10: 6.

This is the complete gig, unlike the "LIve In England '71" boot.
The sound on this is actuall very good. You can't hear the audience much until Space Oddity, in which some laugh as Bowie tries to do the lift off. And then there is a lot of applause at the end of it too.
All in all a very good early Ziggy show. Well worth a download. Bowie on song and a tight band, excellent.

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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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David Bowie:A Live Review.

In this blog i'm going to post all David Bowies live performances from 1971 to 2004.
With each track listing i will post a short review.

No torrents..No passwords..No seeding..Just download and enjoy.

I hope this will be informative and help with your Bowie Live Collections.

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