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Bizarrely, David Bowie has been shy about documenting the 1972 Ziggy Stardust Tour that made him the leper messiah for badly adjusted American kids. This long-bootlegged fan fave has never been officially released. But it does for Bowie what How the West Was Won did for Led Zeppelin?finally, a ?70s crowd-killer gets a properly epic live album.
Bowie soars on the energy of the audience, invading Southern California just in time to dance on the remnants of the hippie dream, shouting, ?You?re not alone!? at the lost, scared L.A. children left behind. This was the night Ziggy became the rock star he desperately wanted to be.
October 20?a sold-out Santa Monica Civic Auditorium show broadcast on KMET radio?was the moment America met Bowie and fell in love. You can hear it happen?the star and the crowd get louder and chattier as the show goes on, like a blind date gone horribly right.
The Spiders From Mars were the loudest, sloppiest band he ever had, with pianist Mike Garson and guitar god Mick Ronson taking ?The Width of a Circle? and ?Moonage Daydream? to new levels. When the Spiders speed up the already-hyper ?Hang On to Yourself,? it sounds just like the Sex Pistols? ?God Save the Queen? will five years later.
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