David bowie was one of the most influential and prolific writers and performers of popular music, but he was much more than that. Filmed in vancouver on september 12, 1983, it was released on video tape and laserdisc in 1984 and on dvd in 2006. The concert bowie fan, nute jenson recalls that bowie drove into the oval in a white limousine flanked by motorcycle security. This dvd captures a night in vancouver from the serious moonlight tour,1984, and includes the songs lets dance, china girl, heroes, rebel rebel, and young americans. David bowie performs his serious moonlight tour in vancouver, 12th.
Taped live during the 1983 serious moonlight tour that shattered box office records in every city, david bowie gives one of the most dramatic and charismatic live performances of his career. David bowie concert setlist at pacific coliseum, vancouver. In 1983, david bowies album lets dance reestablished him as one of rocks most powerful and charismatic performers, and his subsequent world tour was his most successful road trip ever. Space oddity band introduction writtenby david bowie. On the face of it, its a record of davids 1983 serious moonlight world tour. Serious moonlight captures bowie at the peak of his coolly calculated superstardom, streamlining his eccentricities so they are slick yet still a bit strange. Serious moonlight is david bowie s concert video from his 1983 serious moonlight tour in support of his lets dance album. Serious moonlight captures bowie at the point where he began to falter, right after. Serious moonlight, a new dvd highlighting bowie s 1983 tour of the same name, is proof of this unfortunate fact. Bowie, david david bowie serious moonlight tour poster. Feb 08, 2016 in remembrance of his pop musical legacy, enjoy highlights of david bowie s most successful concert tour.
Lossy audio bootlegs david bowie serious moonlight montreal 83 excellent quality. David bowie serious moonlight tour live 1983 music. David bowie serious moonlight tour live 1983 description. To finish up the australian leg of the tour, david bowie played two back to back shows at sydneys ras showgrounds. At vfl park, the giant v shaped screen normally used to project football, now projected bowie s serious moonlight emblem and the subsequent concert as a video stream. Mtv european music awards, and most recently download, coachella and. Is a decision board of montreal performance has been popular as a standard sound source for a long time. David bowie was one of the most influential and prolific writers and performers of popular music. Have a look which song was played how often on which tour. Get the david bowie setlist of the concert at pacific coliseum, vancouver, bc, canada on september 12, 1983 from the serious moonlight tour and other david bowie setlists for free on setlist. David bowie performs his serious moonlight tour in vancouver, 12th august 1983. Serious moonlight cd2 david bowie mp3 buy, full tracklist. David bowie serious moonlight live 83 2018 remaster. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app.
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Serious moonlight live at pacific national exhibition coliseum. A neverbeforeseen glimpse at david bowies serious moonlight tour. This dvd offers bowies conceptual video blue jean, that lasts 20 minutes with two extra videos, china girl and. Find concerts, recordings, artwork, setlist info and other facts about the show or tour of your favorite artist or band.
Serious moonlight is the title of a david bowie concert video. Serious moonlight made me a bowie fan in 1984, and i continue to enjoy it all these years later. The tour opened at the vorst forest nationaal, brussels, on 18 may 1983 and ended in the hong kong coliseum on 8 december 1983. All songs performed live on the 1983 serious moonlight tour were written by david bowie. With david bowie, carlos alomar, steve elson, stan harrison. David bowies songs stream online music songs listen free. David bowie shot his serious moonlight tour film over two nights at pacific coliseum in 1983. Flippo, chet, 1943publication date 1984 topics bowie, david, rock musicians publisher. Check out serious moonlight live at pacific national exhibition coliseum 2018 remaster by david bowie on amazon music. David bowie 19830712 montreal,montreal forum moonlight serenade soundboard.
Serious moonlight live 83, remastered version 2019. Recorded in 1983 during bowies visit to vancouver, the concert is high energy. Release dates 2 also known as aka 0 release dates uk 1984. David bowie serious moonlight montreal 83 excellent quality. David bowie 19830712 montreal,montreal forum moonlight. In 1983, david bowie played bc place and the pacific coliseum in vancouver.
This was part of his serious moonlight tour, considered his longest, largest and. David bowies official tour photographer, denis oregan, offers us a breathtaking. This page includes serious moonlight, live in vancouvers. This is david bowie in his prime, captured live, professionally shot during his 1983 world tour where he performs 19 songs in a commanding, stellar fashion. Bowie traded in both the flamboyant theatricality of his early seventies shows, as well as the arthouse austerity of his berlin era tours, reinventing himself as the wellheeled, smoothsuited purveyor of the cosmopolitan pop which characterised his album lets dance. David bowie live in vancouver, canada in 1983 on his serious moonlight tour. As in 1978, the venue was once again going to pose a problem with noise emission and in turn, the local council and residents once agan objected paul dainty considered the newly built entertainment centre as an alternative but it was deemed too small. Apr 08, 2006 the interview which came with part one of the serious moonlight tour video.
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By 1983, fans knew well of bowies reputation as a tireless rock showman, and with. Filmed in vancouver on 12 september 1983, on the singers serious moonlight tour, the video. In melbourne, bowie played a single outdoor show at the massive football stadium known as vfl park the current home of victorian football. Mar 09, 2006 david bowie, serious moonlight 3 5 stars 3.
David bowie introduces his own videos mtv 1993 part 22 duration. Filmed in vancouver on 12 september 1983, on the singers serious moonlight tour, the video was. Their early music varies from circuspunk, to skadiscorockbalkan rhytms and melodies, from triphop ballads, to an arhytmical psycho stew, from psychadelic oddeseys to an easy going dub or a pop song. By the time bowie was set to go on stage, it was nearly dark. The serious moonlight tour has been called the most important rock event in the history of the music genre and his vancouver show was designed specifically. Charismatic rock legend david bowie is captured live in vancouver in this concert performance staged during his 1983 serious moonlight tour and featuring an impressive set list comprised of his most popular tracks. David bowie serious moonlight live 83, 2018 remastered.
This perhaps explains why the serious moonlight look involved a curly perm and the. The program never looked good, and the 2006 dvd didnt mark any noticeable improvements. In 1983, david bowies album lets dance reestablished him as one of rocks most powerful and charismatic performers, and his subsequent world tour was his. The cliche about david bowie is that he was a musical chameleon, adapting himself according to fashion and trends. The david bowie serious moonlight tour was thus far bowies longest, largest and most successful concert tour. View the statistics of songs played live by david bowie. Serious moonlight, a new dvd highlighting bowies 1983 tour of the same name, is proof of this unfortunate fact. The serious moonlight tour was launched in may 1983 in support of david bowies album lets dance 1983. David bowie v2 schneider 2017 remaster may 6th, 2020 david bowie boys keep swinging tony visconti 2.
He came again in 1983 with his serious moonlight tour again performing at western springs and also in wellington at athletic park. Minutes before going on stage, bowie presented members of an aboriginal dance school a cheque for an unspecified amount. Recorded in 1983 during bowie s visit to vancouver, the concert is high energy. David bowies songs stream online music songs listen. On rare occasions, the 78,000 capacity venue was used for concerts kiss destroyer and u2s pop mart and for a short time in the late 70s, world series cricket.
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