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David Bowie - Live Toronto ON 0401
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Artist: David Bowie
Album: Live Toronto ON 0401
Company: n/a
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Rel. Date : 04/03/2004 Streetdate : 00/00/0000
Ripper : team pyt Supplier : NOYB
Genre : Rock Style : Rock
Quality : VBRkbps / 44.1kHz Mode : Joint-Stereo
Grabber : EAC Encoder : lame
Songs : 29 Playtime : cd1: 65:37 cd2: 67:20 Size : 222,4 MB
Url : n/a
Type : Album Source : CDDA
Language : English
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The clichΘ about David Bowie says he's a musical chameleon,
adapting himself according to fashion and trends. While such
a criticism is too glib, there's no denying that Bowie
demonstrated remarkable skill for perceiving musical trends
at his peak in the '70s. After spending several years in the
late '60s as a mod and as an all-around music-hall
entertainer, Bowie reinvented himself as a hippie
singer/songwriter. Prior to his breakthrough in 1972, he
recorded a proto-metal record and a pop/rock album,
eventually redefining glam rock with his ambiguously sexy
Ziggy Stardust persona. Ziggy made Bowie an international
star, yet he wasn't content to continue to churn out glitter
rock. By the mid-'70s, he developed an effete, sophisticated
version of Philly soul that he dubbed "plastic soul," which
eventually morphed into the eerie avant-pop of 1976's Station
to Station. Shortly afterward, he relocated to Berlin, where
he recorded three experimental electronic albums with Brian
Eno. At the dawn of the '80s, Bowie was still at the height
of his powers, yet following his blockbuster dance-pop album
Let's Dance in 1983, he slowly sank into mediocrity before
salvaging his career in the early '90s. Even when he was out
of fashion in the '80s and '90s, it was clear that Bowie was
one of the most influential musicians in rock, for better and
for worse. Each one of his phases in the '70s sparked a
number of subgenres, including punk, new wave, goth rock, the
new romantics, and electronica. Few rockers ever had such
lasting impact.
David Jones began performing music when he was 13 years old,
learning the saxophone while he was at Bromley Technical High
School; another pivotal event happened at the school, when
his left pupil became permanently dilated in a schoolyard
fight. Following his graduation at 16, he worked as a
commercial artist while playing saxophone in a number of mod
bands, including the King Bees, the Manish Boys (which also
featured Jimmy Page as a session man), and Davey Jones & the
Lower Third. All three of those bands released singles, which
were generally ignored, yet he continued performing, changing
his name to David Bowie in 1966 after the Monkees' Davy Jones
became an international star. Over the course of 1966, he
released three mod singles on Pye Records, which were all
ignored. The following year, he signed with Deram, releasing
the music hall, Anthony Newley-styled David Bowie that year.
Upon completing the record, he spent several weeks in a
Scottish Buddhist monastery. Once he left the monastery, he
studied with Lindsay Kemp's mime troupe, forming his own mime
company, the Feathers, in 1969. The Feathers were
short-lived, and he formed the experimental art group
Beckenham Arts Lab in 1969.
Bowie needed to finance the Arts Lab, so he signed with
Mercury Records that year and released Man of Words, Man of
Music, a trippy singer/songwriter album featuring "Space
Oddity." The song was released as a single and became a major
hit in the U.K., convincing Bowie to concentrate on music.
Hooking up with his old friend Marc Bolan, he began miming at
some of Bolan's T. Rex concerts, eventually touring with
Bolan, bassist/producer Tony Visconti, guitarist Mick Ronson,
and drummer Cambridge as Hype. The band quickly fell apart,
yet Bowie and Ronson remained close, working on the material
that formed Bowie's next album, The Man Who Sold the World,
as well as recruiting Michael "Woody" Woodmansey as their
drummer. Produced by Tony Visconti, who also played bass, The
Man Who Sold the World was a heavy guitar rock album that
failed to gain much attention. Bowie followed the album in
late 1971 with the pop/rock Hunky Dory, an album that
featured Ronson and keyboardist Rick Wakeman.
Following the release of Hunky Dory, Bowie began to develop
his most famous incarnation, Ziggy Stardust: an androgynous,
bisexual rock star from another planet. Before he unveiled
Ziggy, Bowie claimed in a January 1972 interview with the
Melody Maker that he was gay, helping to stir interest in his
forthcoming album. Taking cues from Bolan's stylish glam
rock, Bowie dyed his hair orange and began wearing women's
clothing. He began calling himself Ziggy Stardust, and his
backing band ù Ronson, Woodmansey, and bassist Trevor Bolder
ù were the Spiders from Mars. The Rise & Fall of Ziggy
Stardust and the Spiders from Mars was released with much
fanfare in England in late 1972. The album and its lavish,
theatrical concerts became a sensation throughout England,
and it helped him become the only glam rocker to carve out a
niche in America. Ziggy Stardust became a word-of-mouth hit
in the U.S., and the re-released "Space Oddity" ù which was
now also the title of the re-released Man of Words, Man of
Music ù reached the American Top 20. Bowie quickly followed
Ziggy with Aladdin Sane later in 1973. Not only did he record
a new album that year, but he also produced Lou Reed's
Transformer, the Stooges' Raw Power, and Mott the Hoople's
comeback All the Young Dudes, for which he also wrote the
title track.
Given the amount of work Bowie packed into 1972 and 1973, it
wasn't surprising that his relentless schedule began to catch
up with him. After recording the all-covers Pin-Ups with the
Spiders from Mars, he unexpectedly announced the band's
breakup, as well as his retirement from live performances,
during the group's final show that year. He retreated from
the spotlight to work on a musical adaptation of George
Orwell's 1984, but once he was denied the rights to the
novel, he transformed the work into Diamond Dogs. The album
was released to generally poor reviews in 1974, yet it
generated the hit single "Rebel Rebel," and he supported the
album with an elaborate and expensive American tour. As the
tour progressed, Bowie became fascinated with soul music,
eventually redesigning the entire show to reflect his new
"plastic soul." Hiring guitarist Carlos Alomar as the band's
leader, Bowie refashioned his group into a Philly soul band
and recostumed himself in sophisticated, stylish fashions.
The change took fans by surprise, as did the double-album
David Live, which featured material recorded on the 1974
tour.
Young Americans, released in 1975, was the culmination of
Bowie's soul obsession, and it became his first major
crossover hit, peaking in the American Top Ten and generating
his first U.S. number one hit in "Fame," a song he co-wrote
with John Lennon and Alomar. Bowie relocated to Los Angeles,
where he earned his first movie role in Nicolas Roeg's The
Man Who Fell to Earth (1976). While in L.A., he recorded
Station to Station, which took the plastic soul of Young
Americans into darker, avant-garde-tinged directions, yet was
also a huge hit, generating the Top Ten single "Golden
Years." The album inaugurated Bowie's persona of the elegant
"Thin White Duke," and it reflected Bowie's growing
cocaine-fueled paranoia. Soon, he decided Los Angeles was too
boring and returned to England; shortly after arriving back
in London, he gave the awaiting crowd a Nazi salute, a signal
of his growing, drug-addled detachment from reality. The
incident caused enormous controversy, and Bowie left the
country to settle in Berlin, where he lived and worked with
Brian Eno.
Once in Berlin, Bowie sobered up and began painting, as well
as studying art. He also developed a fascination with German