#Ziggy stardust tv

Also, had RCA released the OctoBoston Music Hall show - which was brilliant, despite Bowie having a cold that night - or this JLondon Hammersmith Odeon program back in the day, it could have had an enormous effect on Bowie's career. The shame of it all is that this double disc was released after David Live and Stage, and while the upside is it makes for a rare, three double-live sets from one performer, the downside is that the best of those three albums has the worst mix on official record. The bootleg also has 'Jean Genie and 'Love Me Do,' which feature Jeff Beck on guitar, Beck's performances being absent from the official RCA soundtrack release.

#Ziggy stardust tv

According to Pimm Jal de la Parra's book David Bowie: The Concert Tapes, the bootleg was issued from the ABC TV 1974 broadcast. Another bootleg, David Bowie with the Spiders from Mars, London, July 3, 1973, is the exact same Ziggy performance, but it comes across better, much better. Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture doesn't have the electric excitement of the Live in Santa Monica '72 boot, and that's the fault of the remix by Mike Moran, Bruce Tergeson, Tony Visconti, and Bowie. The thin recording is shameful: don't expect Pink Floyd's Delicate Sound of Thunder or even the Rolling Stones' wonderfully sludgy 'Get Your Ya Ya's Out.' The remix of this only official live album from the Ziggy Stardust shows is dreadful. The other unnerving thing about this double-LP soundtrack of a concert taped in 1973 and finally released in 1982 is that there are bootlegs which have more to offer sonically. Had Bowie kept the Spiders from Mars together, unique flashes like the version of 'Let's Spend the Night Together' or the striking 'All the Young Dudes would have continued, a tight little rock & roll band providing a balance that dissipated when the artist branched out on his own.

Thank you.' He then went into a magnificent version of 'Rock & Roll Suicide,' a song that gives a glimpse of where Bowie could have gone, not to suicide, but to the style of rock & roll that a long-term band can provide. After performing his second-to-last selection, 'White Light/White Heat,' a tune by Lou Reed, the songwriter who most influenced Ziggy Stardust, David Bowie's enduring and indelible persona, Bowie dropped this little nugget on his fans (and bandmates): 'Not only is it the last show of the tour, but it's the last show that we'll ever do.