David Bowie 1983-12-08 Hung Hom (Hong Kong City) ,Hong Kong Coliseum (Remaster)
Sound Quality Rating
01. Introduction – Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps).flac
02. Rebel Rebel.flac
03. Lavender’s Blue – Heroes.flac
04. What In The World.flac
05. Golden Years.flac
06. Fashion.flac
07. Let’s Dance.flac
08. Life On Mars.flac
09. Sorrow.flac
10. Cat People (Putting Out Fire).flac
11. China Girl.flac
12. Station To Station.flac
13. Ashes To Ashes.flac
14. Space Oddity.flac
15. Young Americans.flac
16. Fame.flac
17. Imagine.flac
18. Look Back In Anger.flac
19. Stay.flac
20. The Jean Genie.flac
21. Star.flac
22. Modern Love.flac
Label : No label
Audio Source : audience
Lineage :
Total running time : 1:49:45
Sound Quality : Much noise ,dull ,but still good listened to
Attendance : 20.000
Artwork : None
Remaster : Yes
Swinging ,Jigging ,and Singing:
Ladies and gentlemen ,on stage for the absolutely ,positively FiNAL performance of the 1983 Serious Moonlight Tour – David Bowie and his band !” the announcer cries,and the band burst into … Scary Monsters??! A strange,but interesting order for this second concert in Hong Kong. “Ah,thank you George” Bowie says before Heroes,probably getting A towel or something. “This next song comes from an album called Low,and it’s called What in the world“ Bowie tells the enthusiastic audience who recognise each song. “Thank you so very much, thank you” Bowie says when he is given a deafening applause after Space Odity,and in a low and very sad voice: “Well ,well ,well … this is … this is handkerchief time for all of us. It’s been eight months on the road now,we started in March this year,and I think we’ve done just about every country in the world,and it’s lovely to be here”. The crowd cheer his words and are very pleased with the swinging version of Young Americans. The audience applaude and sing along with the last lyrics of Fame and then Bowie says in a somewhat raucous voice: “I co-wrote that song with John Lennon. And I asked him one day ‘How do you write your songs’ ,and he said ‘lt’s easy,you just say what you mean,and you put a back-beat to it’. I said ‘What do you Think of my kind of rock & roll’. He said ‘It’s great,but it’s just rock & roll with lipstick on’”.
He pauses for a while and the audience cry out frantically. Bowie continues his touching story: “Last time I saw John Lennon was in Hong Kong,we went to a Hong Kong market and there was a stall that sold old clothes,and there was a Beatles jacket on the stall,and I did something that is not usually in my character – I asked him to put it on so that I could take a photograph,I took a photograph,and I still got the photograph. The jacket doesn’t fit properly,it looks like John has outgrown it”.
The beautiful song Imagine is played in honour of John Lennon ,
“Thank you,goodnight” Bowie says when the number is over and a couple of minutes later he returns for the first encore,Look Back in Anger‘,Stay and Jean Genie. Then he returned for Star and while he was doing Modern Love the stage turned into a bedlam: the Simms brothers started hurling things to the audience ,the entire road crew came running in the ,dancing and sending all sorts of things flying into the hall .towels ,hats and what not! then some 50 or so people came galloping up the stage ,and soon the whole place was swinging , jigging ,and singing.
Tour band 1983 – The Serious Moonlight World Tour :
• David Bowie – lead vocals, guitar, saxophone
• Earl Slick – guitar
• Carlos Alomar – guitar, backing vocals, music director
• Carmine Rojas – bass guitar
• Tony Thompson – drums, percussion
• Dave Lebolt – keyboards, synthesizers
The Borneo Horns:
• Steve Elson – saxophones
• Stan Harrison – saxophones, woodwinds
• Lenny Pickett – saxophones, woodwinds
backing vocals
• George Simms – backing vocals
• Frank Simms – backing vocals
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