Serious Moonlight Tour
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 David Bowie on stage during the 1983 Serious Moonlight Tour |
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| Tour by David Bowie | ||||
| Associated album | Let's Dance | |||
| Start date | 18 May 1983 | |||
| End date | 8 December 1983 | |||
| Legs | 8 | |||
| Shows | 96 | |||
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The David Bowie Serious Moonlight Tour was thus far Bowie's longest, largest and most successful concert tour. The tour opened at the Vorst Forest Nationaal - Brussels on 18 May 1983 and ended in the Hong Kong Coliseum on 8 December 1983; 16 countries visited, 96 performances, 2,601,196 tickets sold.[1]
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[edit] History
Earl Slick was drafted as guitarist a few days before the commencement of the tour due to problems with Stevie Ray Vaughan's management demanding a contract renegotiation.[2]
On 30 June 1983 the performance at the Hammersmith Odeon - London was a charity show for the Brixton Neighbourhood Community Association in the presence of Princess Michael of Kent. The 13 July 1983 Montreal Forum performance was recorded and broadcast on American FM Radio and other radio stations worldwide.
At the Canadian National Exhibition Stadium - Toronto, ON performance on 4 September 1983, Bowie introduced onstage special guest, Mick Ronson, who borrowed Earl Slick's guitar and performed The Jean Genie with Bowie and band. The 11 & 12 September 1983 Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, BC performances were filmed and released on video in 1984 with a DVD release in 2006.
The concert in 12 September in Vancouver was recorded for the concert video Serious Moonlight, that was leleased in 1984 and on DVD in 2006.
[edit] Tour band
- David Bowie - vocals, guitar, saxophone
- Earl Slick - guitar
- Carlos Alomar - guitar
- Carmine Rojas - bass guitar
- Tony Thompson - drums, percussion
- Dave Lebolt - keyboards, synthesizers
- Steve Elson - saxophones
- Stan Harrison - saxophones, woodwinds
- Lenny Pickett - saxophones, woodwinds
- George Simms - backing vocals
- Frank Simms - backing vocals
[edit] Tour dates
[edit] The Songs
From Space Oddity
- "Space Oddity"
From Hunky Dory
- "Life on Mars?"
From The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
- "Soul Love"
- "Star"
- "Hang on to Yourself"
From Aladdin Sane
- "Cracked Actor"
- "The Jean Genie"
From Pin Ups
- "I Can't Explain" (originally non-album single by The Who, written by Pete Townshend)
- "Sorrow" (originally by The McCoys, written by Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein and Richard Gottehrer)
From Diamond Dogs
- "Rebel Rebel"
From Young Americans
- "Young Americans"
- "Fame" (Bowie, John Lennon, Carlos Alomar)
From Station to Station
- "Station to Station"
- "Golden Years"
- "TVC 15"
- "Stay"
- "Wild Is the Wind" (originally a single by Johnny Mathis, written by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington)
From Low
- "Breaking Glass" (Bowie, Dennis Davis, George Murray)
- "What in the World"
From "Heroes"
- "Joe the Lion"
- ""Heroes"" (Bowie, Brian Eno)
From Lodger
- "Red Sails" (Bowie, Eno)
- "Look Back in Anger" (Bowie, Eno)
From Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
- "Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)"
- "Ashes to Ashes"
- "Fashion"
From Let's Dance
- "Modern Love"
- "China Girl" (originally from The Idiot by Iggy Pop, written by Pop and Bowie)
- "Let's Dance"
- "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" (originally from Cat People: Original Soundtrack, written by Bowie and Giorgio Moroder)
Other songs:
- "Imagine" (originally from Imagine by John Lennon, written by Lennon)
- "White Light/White Heat" (from White Light/White Heat by The Velvet Underground, written by Lou Reed)
[edit] Notes
- ^ Pimm Jal de la Parra, David Bowie: The Concert Tapes, P.J. Publishing, 1985, ISBN 909001005X
- ^ Nicholas Pegg, The Complete David Bowie, Reynolds & Hearn Ltd, 2004, ISBN 1-903111-73-0
[edit] References
- David Buckley, Strange Fascination: The Definitive Biography of David Bowie, Virgin Books, 1999, ISBN 1-85227-784X
