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How is it that this concert remains in the vaults, but that horribly taped concert from '83 known as The Serious Moonlight video is the only official document of this tour?

thelodger666 4 days ago

This was the point where Bowie decided it might be trendy to get his hair permed like my aunty Ethel. I think it paid off with him making millions from the serious moonlight tour. But i cant help thinking that i wish thought about having that perm in 1983 but then things would have turned out differently for me, i dont know how can i say? i mean who am i?. All the very best David x

UNCIEAL 1 week ago

Yes, some Tin Machine stuff is good, too, especially live. I must admit that I don't know it too well. But I like the TM songs very much that have been re-recorded and performed later, like "I Can't Read" or "Shopping For Girls".

ezaube1030 3 weeks ago

I was there ,,,Hay and still got the tickets to prove It..... What a weekend....

Harrybowie1 1 month ago

My dad was in that crowd somewhere!:D

Kainlarsen 3 months ago

my teacher was at this concert! and i was born 10 years later, how is that fair?

Eggs4Eva 3 months ago

was there!! And I kid you not.. I was 20 feet away from David!! Check out the lets dance vinyl picture disc. I'm on it . Just behind the two blonde girls right on the fence! And just in front of my mate Mark with the Daniel ash haircut! What a day , and what a souvenier!! I'll never forget that weekend!!

surfyphil 4 months ago

yeah i was here too. he played birmingham some weeks before but this was the big gig - remember the t-shirt, remember mum dropping me off, driving around milton keynes then somehow picking me up. thx mum for driving around MK...sorry.

MrStu1966 5 months ago

I was right at the front, centre on this day!! I got onto the photo for the picture disc vinyl version of lets dance!! Shit album, but hey !! I'm a fan so made up!!

surfyphil 6 months ago

oh my god he's so amazing

dancechick007 6 months ago

love the suit

gringolazlo 7 months ago

I wish I was there! It was where I live AND on my birthday! If only I were born... :L fail...

elzashan 8 months ago

Its difficult to say for definite but I'm sure I can recognise myself at the start of this clip, in the bottom right of the screen. I was there in the 3rd July, the last of 3 shows at Milton Keynes and I was around that side of the stage. It was my first Bowie gig. Earlier, I recall Billy MacKenzie joining The Beat for some backing vocals, though it looked like he hadn't been invited.

TheGreatValerian 1 year ago

@TheGreatValerian strange that since Ashes to ashes Bowie seemingly went out of his way to produce rubbish album after rubbish album and YET even then throughout the 1980's he was still able to draw in huge crowds to see him - even the 1987 Glass spider tour (which I have yet to hear anyone saying anything positive about) he was able to play Wembly stadium.It took until the 1990's before his fan base began to tail off - those reviews for his Outside tour in 1995 were brutal!

revol148 7 months ago

@revol148 I've not had this verified, but the terrible management contract Bowie signed with Tony De Fries meant that from 1975 onward, De Fries still took a hefty chunk of Bowie's earnings up until around the early 80s. Rather than produce 'hits' during this period and line the pockets of De Fries, Bowie seemingly chose a more esoteric plan, producing work that just didn't sell very well but is highly admired by all. From 83, his money was mostly his own but at an artistic price.

TheGreatValerian 7 months ago 2

@TheGreatValerian I read one of Bowies biographies ages ago and there was no mention of that deal with De Fries - although you are right in that he did get really screwed by his contracts which he signed whilst under the influence of hard drugs.Do you think his 1980's era was good then?Personally by Low he was running on empty. Did you see him on the Ziggy Stardust tour by the way? (I'll try not to be jealous if you did!)- the footage from Hammersmith Odeon looks absolutely incredible.

revol148 7 months ago

@revol148 No, didn't see the Ziggy Tour, first Bowie gig was the one in the clip, 3rd July 1983. Bowie loomed big in my life when Ashes to Ashes was released and the album it came from was the first I bought. Such a shame I got into Bowie when he enters his "Phil Collins" Period. There are some gems, even the odd track on Tonight and Never Let Me Down, the rest is pants. Cat People, This is not America, Baby Universal, some gems from the 80s, no?

TheGreatValerian 7 months ago

@TheGreatValerian as far as the 1980's was concerned - No great albums - although true there were some great singles - Under pressure and of course the sublime Absolute beginners (one of my fav songs along with let me sleep besides you & the width of a circle).Good to find the Cracked Actor documentary here on youtube - all those drugs and yet he still was writing great albums.

revol148 7 months ago

@TheGreatValerian This is about right I think. I'm pretty sure he wasn't entirely free of De Vries until as late as the '90s Bowie bonds scheme.

arabiansanchez 1 month ago

@revol148 But the Outside tour was the best thing he did in years! And just that one received brutal reviews! Maybe it was because some "eighties fans" were slapped in the face with it? Anyway, it would be interesting to do research on Bowie reception throughout the decades. It amazes me that his more recent output (1993-2003) still is not very highly regarded, although it would deserve it a lot.

ezaube1030 3 weeks ago

@ezaube1030 It was his 1970's fans (rather than his 1980's fans) who were not altogether impressed with forgettable albums like Never let me down and Tonight.I would agree with you that some of his 1990's stuff was quite good however - Black tie white noise is a superb album but I will be honest with you his 1969-1974 era is the only part of his career which interest me.Oh and I have yet to hear anyone who has a good word to say about Tin machine!

revol148 3 weeks ago