It was strange, no, eery, seeing George Michael rehearsing "Somebody to Love" with Queen for the "Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert". Watching him in the background was Bowie. Two excellent artists singing for Freddie and now they're both gone. Maybe they'll be a Tribute Concert for Bowie. The problem is, I think with the standards of todays artists it wouldn't be possible.
You guys NEED to hit "Blackstar" official video. His vision. His knowledge of his impending death. One of the best pieces of art I've ever seen from any performer.
"Heroes" is a Berlin song. "Standing by the Wall" was a reference to Bowie seeing Producer Tony Visconti literally standing next to the Berlin Wall during the recording sessions for the "Heroes" album. No coincidence that this great song hit home so hard there. Convergence of art, intent and execution right there.
I believe the story was Bowie spied a couple near the wall who appeared very much in love and he imagined they were from different sides of Germany but for that one moment, just for one day, they could be together. Love that story. RIP. So dearly missed. 🙏🏻
I got the story from Tony Visconti in a documentary about making Heroes, and he confirmed it was him and his girlfriend being referenced in the song. The concept of the lovers from either side of the wall could well be the imagery they were going for.
I'm 70 and have seen so many artists in concert. David Bowie had more charisma on stage than anyone I have seen. I saw him in the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, and his last concet tour. Sorely missed...
It was baffling and felt so special when I realized that he stopped touring just a few months after I saw him in Toronto 20 years ago. I feel so lucky that my dad was willing to buy me the ticket.
he was supposed to come to our city back in 91 or 92. I was SO jacked to get tickets, till they said it conflicted with a yearly event.....it got cancelled....it was my only shot to see him. I was SO PISSED
Always so thankful I got to see him live. One of only a handful of people that have passed that truly affected me on a soul level. I remember it feeling like part of my childhood had died and crying freely- standing alone in my living room. Bowie is an icon.
First saw him in 1976 and I was blown away how this one man held the whole audience in his hand - Never missed a Bowie concert after that - The Biggest influence on my life
I like a few of Bowie's songs, and I haven't really taken the time to dig into his catalog. I haven't fallen in love with his stuff, yet. But this is the first time I have seen him live, and now I get it. Unbelievable performer, and now I want to hear more. I wish I could have gone to that concert in 1976.
Despite it not being a Bowie original, my favorite Bowie experience was as a 7 yr old, his Bing Crosby 1977 Christmas Special Duet of Little Drummer Boy...need to see it as it was on TV... Bing was the ultimate professional of letting David shine on Bing's special....Still very special listening to that performance. Cheers!
I didn’t miss a Bowie show from the mid 70s until his last tour. My daughter loved him as a baby. His music always calmed her down, so when she was about 5, we went to his show, sat down front and she didn’t move. 😍. Bowie was very kind with no ego when meeting him. I did cry when he died.
His music was so wonderfully diverse, and remained vibrant and creative until the very end. He was so incredible live. Saw him twice, Serious Moonlight tour in 83 and the Sound and Vision tour in 90. Both beyond amazing, such wonderful memories. God, I miss him.
I saw him at Longchamps in Paris in 1982 on the Serious Moonlight tour ... He walked out onto a vast stage with scattered musicians and just filled the whole space with his magnetic presence... first time with blond hair and a sky blue suit. Amazing.
This may be my favorite Bowie song. It is incredible. I started listening to Bowie in 7th grade, I think. I am now 64. Bowie's death shook me. I cried.
Bowie is simply magic! Saw him on The Glass Spider tour in '87 (when i was 20) at the huge Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan. Waited in line with friends for two days to get tickets, as was the norm back then for pretty much all concerts. Pretty sure he sold out all 80,000 seats in a day. He brought Peter Frampton basically out of retirement to play guitar on that tour, so was an added bonus to get to see him play live.
In 1997 Bowie had a concert that changed my musical life forever. One of those ahh ha moments in life that you get. He did MTVs “Live From The 10 Spot”. Holy holy holy crap. Sooooo good. I recorded it on my VCR, dubbed the audio to a cassette tape and had that tape on repeat for years. I know how much you liked “Quicksand” from the “Hunky Dory” album and that is the first song he sings. It sold me on this guy. 1997 Bowie in concert supporting his album “Earthling” brought some great reinventions of his already classic songs. Trust me guys, 1997 live Bowie is amazingly amazing.
I never got to see Bowie, never met Bowie, but he always felt so intimately familiar and his music spoke to me so directly that he and his energy became a vital part of my life somewhere along the way. I have a giant framed portrait of latter-year Bowie hanging in my living room as a reminder that you don’t have to age out of your own creativity or youthful spirit. You and you alone get to forge your own way in life and in art. I can’t express how much he’s missed in this world.
I saw him live six times. He was amazing, especially at Glastonbury 2000. That was one of those epic all time great concerts. Life on Mars from that set would be a great one to hit
Nothing but LOVE for that man!! I was crying before it was halfway over. Seeing him so youthful and vibrant in 2002!! Thank you God for talents like that coming into our lives! Another amazing live performance is from a band not heard enough on here (maybe they block?) is U2!! Either "I Will Follow" from Red Rocks or "Bad" from Live Aid! Prayers going out to the people in KC.
The key to Bowie was his curiosity. He never lost it even to his final days. If he heard something he hadn’t heard before he wanted to find out all about it and then he’d inevitably fold it into his music. He did it all the way through his life. Never lose your curiosity...
Stones, Beatles, who, clash, pistols, the kinks, Clapton, pink Floyd, rod stewart, Costello, cat Stevens, led zep, bad company, black sabbath, supertramp, Billy idol, deep purple and chunks of csny and Fleetwood Mac and the pretenders and the individual members of those bands like Pete townshend as a solo artist and Bowie and all the others I left out. Thank you, England from a yank
Lots of Yanks in his band, though -- Earl Slick, Gail Ann Dorsey, Sterling Campbell ... Seriously though, Britain has made an outsized contribution to the world of music, yes.
Try to find his performances from The Concert for NYC post 9/11. He started the show with Simon and Garfunkel’s America (an amazing solo performance while sitting on the stage), and then he broke into Heroes. Amazing performance as were all the performances that night.
More Bowie has to be "Stay," the closing banger from the superb Station to Station album. which is a must-listen from beginning to end experience, because it's a whole package like few others.
It was his last tour ever. Seeing him live was beyond thrilling!!! The Beacon theatre in New York a small venue fabulous venue. At the risk of sounding biased my dear friend Pete keppler was his sound engineer on his last tour and the band, recordings and live videos never sounded so great!! makes such a difference the sound person!!! Earl slick on guitar added that extra!! to a great band Bowie grew into a beautiful philosopher and carrier of messages in love and compassion and as Alex said a man of the people!!! ❤
One of the two 'coolest' human beings I've ever seen in person(about 15 rows back). He literally exuded a sublime confidence over everything he did, down to drinking water on stage if that's possible to make 'cool'. Miles Davis was even more impactful to me @ Grant Park( probably ten rows back) in Atlanta in the late '90s and he was the same but more of a supreme leader in confidence than the more zen Bowie.
Saw David 3 times his music was a great part of my life, starting in the 60's he went thru so many cha cha changes,many generations keep him in Fame and they will for many more.. 💔 miss him so much 😢 Gary, please more bowie reactions.
i only saw Bowie once, and it was the tour with Nine Inch Nails. Best transition between bands i've ever seen: NIN came back for an encore or three, and they started playing Bowie songs. As they played band members swapped out from NIN's to Bowie's, and for the last song, Bowie came out and sang it with Trent Reznor. By then, it was all Bowie's band, so when they were done, Trent left the stage and boom, it was all Bowie. No house lights up, killing time while new equipment was set up... none of that. they all used the same stage. The way this allowed the energy to continue until Bowie was done was incredible. (And of course Trent came back for some of Bowie's encore).
Bowie is so good. I love it when he hits the end of his range and his voice cracks a couple of times in the beginning. He let it do that it is great - shows how much perfection is overrated. He really did a great job on this live performance. Not sure if you have done Under Pressure with David and Freddie collaborating.
Kudos to whoever suggested exactly this version. There are countless, but this one rules over them all. Pure bliss. Since you mentioned Let's Dance, might I suggest the live version from Glastonbury 2000?
I would have paid Taylor Swift money have been there for that performance. The remarkable thing was the connection between Bowie and the crowd. Rare rare rare at that level. Bravo David!!!
If you're going to get tearful about Bowie, then surely "I can't give everything away" is where to go? The most eloquent 'goodbye' you can ever imagine from a magnificent artist.
This was a good example of why Bowie was as big as he was. He was performing, in the best possible way. He was being the amazing stage presence and actor that he became over the years and everyone expected him to be. We only get a glimpse of one side of him when he’s on stage. I think he had many different sides that different people, from other parts of his life would only see but this was his performance side.
I’m so glad you did this live version out of all the versions out there, the banter before this song reinforces exactly what you are saying about him as person/performer.
The arrangement was planned that way. As that song evolved over time in live performances he had the idea of it starting the song almost like a jam, like a throwaway and then it would get louder more serious more involved. The studio version is a whole other beast, with Tony Visconti (producer) inventing his famous three mike technique. Anyway you want incredible live Bowie, anything from 'A Reality Tour' is excellent, anything from Glastonbury phenomenal. both on DVD. It would be great if you could compare those two versions of "Heroes" to this one, I'm sure many people would like that. And yes also the Live Aid version. Also TVC15 from Live Aid and one of his greatest albums "Station to Station" is a must see.
I’m not usually proud to be British, but back in the day, I honestly think musically we had some of the best musicians, certainly in the Western world. Great song writers too.
The sustain that Robert Fripp placed on the original guitar part of this song always knocked me out. Fripp was recently on Daryl Hall’s podcast and they played this song together. Still a killer song.
@@Isleofskye Not in the live performance featured here. I should have qualified my response talking about Fripp’s guitar part on the original recording.
Glad you came back to this song, I don't believe the studio version knocked you over. It's definitely in my Top 5 Bowie songs. You chould check out the extended version of "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)." It's equally amazing. You ever consider doing a live stream of songs you have since reassessed? Or maybe that's against your policy
I really love the performance of 'I Would Be Your Slave' from this concert, it's one of my favourite songs of his, and the slide guitar at the end is sublime!
So glad you did this one - my favorite version of this song. His laconic start to his impassioned end. One of the greatest progressions of all time. You should also check out King Crimson's tribute to Bowie when he passed doing Heroes also live in Berlin.
Perfection. The first time he sang this in Berlin seems to have been as early as 97 but this performance is in 2002 after the wall fell. But the fact that the fact that the song was contemporaneous with the time of the collapse of the Berlin wall makes it all the more poignant.
Genius barely describes his shapeshifting talent. He lived in and developed his chops in a pub in the town where I was born. His song "Memory of a free festival" is an homage to the event he and the local music collective he was a part of put on in the town in 1969 as he was on the cusp of greatness. He was always looking for something new or something more and his loss hit everyone who grew up with his music like a ton of bricks.
There was a beginning to this that you guys didn't see..Bowie jokes with the audience for a few minutes before he starts the song. Bowie...broke my heart. 'Old Lady Me' the music, always different and great.
I love everything Bowie but this may be my favorite live performance for all the reasons you said. He was the epitome of cool and both musically and socially way ahead of his time.
Saw him on the Serious Moonlight Tour in the 80s...amazing accuracy, stage performance was outstanding....even better since 300+ of us stormed the fence & got in FREE!
This is such a great video. It shows Bowie off in a live gig which is what he always loved best, in front of a live audience. His personality always came across so beautifully as the first part of the video (not shown here) demonstrates very clearly. God bless him. He was one of the greatest singer/songwriter/performer/storytellers ever and so sadly missed. 🙋♂ ❤
I saw a documentary about Bowie on t.v. I was so surprised how really cool & down to earth he was. He really liked people & would travel around the world & just hang with them. He said he loved performing, but to communicate with his audience. Not just being the rock star & playing that role like so many do. He was a cool guy, I was impressed. I grew up when he was first becoming a star & his music was so different from most bands. He was unique....
The "standing by the wall" verse is always spine-tingling. I agree with Andy that there was a shift in his energy during this performance. At the top of the song, it felt to me like he was performing it for the millionth time - but just as he was getting to the wall verse, it's like he suddenly realized that he was singing to Berliners. I felt that his energy and sensibility shifted at that point precisely. The 2nd half was magical, and he was aware of that magic, leading to him genuinely saying "I felt that! God Bless Us" to those who actually lived through those dark days of the Berlin Wall in the shadow of the guard towers.
Bowie was the man. He is SO missed. Heroes is a great song!
It was strange, no, eery, seeing George Michael rehearsing "Somebody to Love" with Queen for the "Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert". Watching him in the background was Bowie.
Two excellent artists singing for Freddie and now they're both gone. Maybe they'll be a Tribute Concert for Bowie. The problem is, I think with the standards of todays artists it wouldn't be possible.
Plus Fripp's haunting guitar melody. So simple yet so critical.
Dave was the most chameleon like performer in my lifetime. Here he's almost Sinatra-esque
Bowie is just another brick in the wall of an amazing era of music!
@@ljsites 👍😎
You guys NEED to hit "Blackstar" official video. His vision. His knowledge of his impending death. One of the best pieces of art I've ever seen from any performer.
That's a hard listen. Great album but it hurts.
I only watched it a couple times -haunting...
Yes - his final masterpiece. What a way to say goodbye, what a legacy.
And the fourth and final Major Tom song
Lazarus absolutely crushes me.
Bowie, one of our absolutely best musicians ever walked on the earth, may he RIP
Amen❤
Absolutely
"Heroes" is a Berlin song. "Standing by the Wall" was a reference to Bowie seeing Producer Tony Visconti literally standing next to the Berlin Wall during the recording sessions for the "Heroes" album. No coincidence that this great song hit home so hard there. Convergence of art, intent and execution right there.
What they said.
I believe the story was Bowie spied a couple near the wall who appeared very much in love and he imagined they were from different sides of Germany but for that one moment, just for one day, they could be together. Love that story. RIP. So dearly missed. 🙏🏻
I got the story from Tony Visconti in a documentary about making Heroes, and he confirmed it was him and his girlfriend being referenced in the song. The concept of the lovers from either side of the wall could well be the imagery they were going for.
Tony Visconti's story: ruclips.net/video/7Q2scPrc1WE/видео.html
God, he was amazing. We're so lucky to have been alive at the same time as Bowie.
His voice.......his voice is everything ❤ I still get misty eyed when i watch him 😢
Bowie set the trends after he lived them 3 years before.
Everyone had to catch up to him even though he was already on to something new!
I'm 70 and have seen so many artists in concert. David Bowie had more charisma on stage than anyone I have seen. I saw him in the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, and his last concet tour. Sorely missed...
It was baffling and felt so special when I realized that he stopped touring just a few months after I saw him in Toronto 20 years ago. I feel so lucky that my dad was willing to buy me the ticket.
@helenbaumander3953 I, too, saw him on that last tour.
There is a version of this video with about five minutes of banter with the audience…. Bowie is just so cool.
I saw David in concert back in 1983, he was fantastic!!!😊❤️
Me too...saw him 3x total
I saw him in 1995 with NIN. He was indeed fantastic.
he was supposed to come to our city back in 91 or 92. I was SO jacked to get tickets, till they said it conflicted with a yearly event.....it got cancelled....it was my only shot to see him. I was SO PISSED
I saw him 5 X between 1978 and 1991. My all time favorite artist.
I also saw him in 1983 at MSG, amazing show. R.I.P. David Bowie…A Great.
Always so thankful I got to see him live. One of only a handful of people that have passed that truly affected me on a soul level. I remember it feeling like part of my childhood had died and crying freely- standing alone in my living room. Bowie is an icon.
First saw him in 1976 and I was blown away how this one man held the whole audience in his hand - Never missed a Bowie concert after that - The Biggest influence on my life
I like a few of Bowie's songs, and I haven't really taken the time to dig into his catalog. I haven't fallen in love with his stuff, yet. But this is the first time I have seen him live, and now I get it. Unbelievable performer, and now I want to hear more. I wish I could have gone to that concert in 1976.
Despite it not being a Bowie original, my favorite Bowie experience was as a 7 yr old, his Bing Crosby 1977 Christmas Special Duet of Little Drummer Boy...need to see it as it was on TV... Bing was the ultimate professional of letting David shine on Bing's special....Still very special listening to that performance. Cheers!
I remember that. It was amazing.
Me too!
I didn’t miss a Bowie show from the mid 70s until his last tour. My daughter loved him as a baby. His music always calmed her down, so when she was about 5, we went to his show, sat down front and she didn’t move. 😍. Bowie was very kind with no ego when meeting him. I did cry when he died.
Bowie "CHINA GIRL" is sooo good! (studio version) ❤
Was Iggy Pop’s song, Bowie covered it (they were great friends). I prefer Bowie’s version better :)
I do love the live version from the album “Live at the Kit Kat Club 99”
His music was so wonderfully diverse, and remained vibrant and creative until the very end. He was so incredible live. Saw him twice, Serious Moonlight tour in 83 and the Sound and Vision tour in 90. Both beyond amazing, such wonderful memories. God, I miss him.
I saw him at Longchamps in Paris in 1982 on the Serious Moonlight tour ... He walked out onto a vast stage with scattered musicians and just filled the whole space with his magnetic presence... first time with blond hair and a sky blue suit. Amazing.
bowie is one of those few artists you can watch over and over. He is mesmerizing.
David bowie, one of the greatest musical artists of all time. A sad day when he left us.
A&A, you'll love his "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" and "Modern Love" !!!
Really, anything with Bowie and SRV and you can’t go wrong.
And China Girl from the same album.
As added incentive, "Modern Love" is a clip from the 'Serious Moonlight' tour!!
If they do "Cat People", they need to compare the version from the movie first and then the version from "Let's Dance." Both are great.
Got to do the version from the movie soundtrack
oooh god, the man was SO magnetic live. And this song has one of the best slow-burn build-ups of ALL TIME.
David Bowie was a man that just had that aura around him, that in his presence makes you just sit there in awe.
There's not many people like that.
This may be my favorite Bowie song. It is incredible. I started listening to Bowie in 7th grade, I think. I am now 64. Bowie's death shook me. I cried.
Bowie is simply magic! Saw him on The Glass Spider tour in '87 (when i was 20) at the huge Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan. Waited in line with friends for two days to get tickets, as was the norm back then for pretty much all concerts. Pretty sure he sold out all 80,000 seats in a day. He brought Peter Frampton basically out of retirement to play guitar on that tour, so was an added bonus to get to see him play live.
I used to watch that on VHS. My son would sit in his beanbag and pretend to be David Bowie. Loved it❤️
@@marylewis9732 that is adorable! 😊
In 1997 Bowie had a concert that changed my musical life forever. One of those ahh ha moments in life that you get.
He did MTVs “Live From The 10 Spot”. Holy holy holy crap. Sooooo good. I recorded it on my VCR, dubbed the audio to a cassette tape and had that tape on repeat for years.
I know how much you liked “Quicksand” from the “Hunky Dory” album and that is the first song he sings. It sold me on this guy. 1997 Bowie in concert supporting his album “Earthling” brought some great reinventions of his already classic songs. Trust me guys, 1997 live Bowie is amazingly amazing.
I never got to see Bowie, never met Bowie, but he always felt so intimately familiar and his music spoke to me so directly that he and his energy became a vital part of my life somewhere along the way. I have a giant framed portrait of latter-year Bowie hanging in my living room as a reminder that you don’t have to age out of your own creativity or youthful spirit. You and you alone get to forge your own way in life and in art. I can’t express how much he’s missed in this world.
Can’t explain it but every time I watch this I get tears running down my cheek. Just makes me so happy.
He just oozes coolness
I saw him live six times. He was amazing, especially at Glastonbury 2000. That was one of those epic all time great concerts. Life on Mars from that set would be a great one to hit
I envy you,my friend:)
The slow burn beginning was something which Bowie introduced to his live sets - the studio version comes straight out of the gates full-on.
Nothing but LOVE for that man!! I was crying before it was halfway over. Seeing him so youthful and vibrant in 2002!! Thank you God for talents like that coming into our lives!
Another amazing live performance is from a band not heard enough on here (maybe they block?) is U2!! Either "I Will Follow" from Red Rocks or "Bad" from Live Aid!
Prayers going out to the people in KC.
The key to Bowie was his curiosity. He never lost it even to his final days. If he heard something he hadn’t heard before he wanted to find out all about it and then he’d inevitably fold it into his music. He did it all the way through his life. Never lose your curiosity...
THANK YOU guys!! I'm not always in total agreement with your reactions to the music of my lifetime, but you guys totally nailed it with this one! 💚💙🩵💜
You have to admit that we have some of best musicians in our little country 🇬🇧
Stones, Beatles, who, clash, pistols, the kinks, Clapton, pink Floyd, rod stewart, Costello, cat Stevens, led zep, bad company, black sabbath, supertramp, Billy idol, deep purple and chunks of csny and Fleetwood Mac and the pretenders and the individual members of those bands like Pete townshend as a solo artist and Bowie and all the others I left out. Thank you, England from a yank
Lots of Yanks in his band, though -- Earl Slick, Gail Ann Dorsey, Sterling Campbell ... Seriously though, Britain has made an outsized contribution to the world of music, yes.
His Live Aid performance was incredible. In fact, you should definitely watch the whole event. You would not believe the spectacle that was.
How fortunate we are to live in a universe that encompasses David Bowie's genius. I am grateful.
Try to find his performances from The Concert for NYC post 9/11. He started the show with Simon and Garfunkel’s America (an amazing solo performance while sitting on the stage), and then he broke into Heroes. Amazing performance as were all the performances that night.
More Bowie has to be "Stay," the closing banger from the superb Station to Station album. which is a must-listen from beginning to end experience, because it's a whole package like few others.
From the bass to the drums a fantastic track.
Looovvvee Stay.
Such a good track. Funk + Rock = chef's kiss
Station to Station is one they have to hit. Amazing album!
The live version from 2000 rocks.
Bowie never disappoints
Well.....there was dancing in the street, lol! Thats only my opinion of course. Just hated the video.
It was his last tour ever. Seeing him live was beyond thrilling!!! The Beacon theatre in New York a small venue fabulous venue.
At the risk of sounding biased my dear friend Pete keppler was his sound engineer on his last tour and the band, recordings and live videos never sounded so great!! makes such a difference the sound person!!! Earl slick on guitar added that extra!! to a great band
Bowie grew into a beautiful philosopher and carrier of messages in love and compassion and as Alex said a man of the people!!! ❤
Love this video. You can see pure joy on his face.
I love the German version of this song that is played at the end of Jo Jo Rabbit.
It was used in Christiane F - Kinder vom Banhof Zoo as well.
@andrewgibson395 it wasn't only used there, Bowie was in the film, as Christine watched him perform on stage.
Briean Eno and Robert Fripp on the original studio version. King Crimson would play it live
Love that version OMG...
Robert Fripp gave such an edge to the Berlin albums and Scary Monsters. This might be Earl Slick on this live version.
@@chriswood3252live in philly is earl slick.i had the record years ago reissue is out now
Brian Eno co-wrote this Bowie
So many decades of A+/S songs...so little time. Love so many. Love watching Alex chair boogie. I never sit still at live gigs!!
"The Candidate" and it's segue into "Rebel Rebel" on Diamond Dogs is an experience...
Banger, hit Ashes to Ashes and Cat People other great ones by Bowie!
Cat People's gotta be the Giorgio Moroder version from the soundtrack!
"Conquistador" by Procol Harum, live with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra in 1971.
On the same planet at the very same time ...Thank you David Jones ...Dave Bowie for all the memories ,,,,R.I.P.
It's so good, it starts off low key and you feel a little like he's gonna coast, then before you know it, it's electrifying!
He was one of my first stadium concerts, during The Glass Spider Tour. So glad that I got to see him once. Even though I was a young teen.
One of my favorite live performances. The crowd is half of the energy and it’s so important here 😊
Most amazing and humble man. More of us need to live this way.
Another awesome live Bowie video is "Hallo Spaceboy" with the Foo Fighters. You watch that one, and you'll have to hit the banger button.
Yes. The hole 50th birthday ist great.
Saw Bowie on the Glass Spider tour. Blew me away. Peter Frampton on guitar. Bowie was a master of glam on the stage. Thanks for this version guys.
One of the two 'coolest' human beings I've ever seen in person(about 15 rows back). He literally exuded a sublime confidence over everything he did, down to drinking water on stage if that's possible to make 'cool'.
Miles Davis was even more impactful to me @ Grant Park( probably ten rows back) in Atlanta in the late '90s and he was the same but more of a supreme leader in confidence than the more zen Bowie.
Thank you for listening to Bowie, saw him on the 3 day US FESTIVAL, San Bernardino California 1983. 3 Days of Incredible awesome BANDS🎶♥️🎶
💜 My favorite vocal performance of his is his cover of “Wild Is the Wind”. So amazing. Also, “Look Back in Anger” from his Lodger album is a fav. 💜
YES! Nina Simone's version is very nice but Bowie is perfection. And I LOVE Lodger so so much!
I recommend:
David Bowie & Annie Lennox "Under
Pressure" (Freddie's Tribute Concert)
Annie is a total diva 😍
I fell in love with Bowie in 1974.
Great Performer.
♥️🎼🕊️🎼♥️🎼🕊️♥️
1968 for me. "Space Oddity" at my schoolmate, Nick's house in Clapham,South West London:)
I loved dancing to Modern Love when I was young!! It always filled the dance floor!!
Saw David 3 times his music was a great part of my life, starting in the 60's he went thru so many cha cha changes,many
generations keep him in Fame and they will for many more.. 💔 miss him so much 😢 Gary, please more bowie reactions.
i only saw Bowie once, and it was the tour with Nine Inch Nails. Best transition between bands i've ever seen: NIN came back for an encore or three, and they started playing Bowie songs. As they played band members swapped out from NIN's to Bowie's, and for the last song, Bowie came out and sang it with Trent Reznor. By then, it was all Bowie's band, so when they were done, Trent left the stage and boom, it was all Bowie. No house lights up, killing time while new equipment was set up... none of that. they all used the same stage. The way this allowed the energy to continue until Bowie was done was incredible. (And of course Trent came back for some of Bowie's encore).
There will NEVER be a voice or artist like him. Glad I saw it all. Respect
I’m not the biggest Bowie fan but that was FANTASTIC!
Bowie is so good. I love it when he hits the end of his range and his voice cracks a couple of times in the beginning. He let it do that it is great - shows how much perfection is overrated. He really did a great job on this live performance. Not sure if you have done Under Pressure with David and Freddie collaborating.
Kudos to whoever suggested exactly this version. There are countless, but this one rules over them all. Pure bliss.
Since you mentioned Let's Dance, might I suggest the live version from Glastonbury 2000?
nice!
False. David Byrne did a mob session in Grand Central Station that obliterates this flatliner.
Gotta say it still doesn’t come close to Live Aid but it’s still pretty darn good.😎
For me, best version was Concert for New York after 9/11. FDNY and NYPD in attendance seriously into it. Goosebumps.
I like the one with Mick Ronson at the Freddie Mercury tribute
Bowie makes me smile. "Shining beacon of light" is spot on.
I would have paid Taylor Swift money have been there for that performance.
The remarkable thing was the connection between Bowie and the crowd. Rare rare rare at that level.
Bravo David!!!
So glad I got to see him in concert during the Let's Dance tour.
i get choked up by this song… thanks david
If there are any sound pros here, the mic management Bowie installs during each phrase is glorious. No presets necessary with this guy.
He recorded this in German and it sounds great. It is rousing and perfect at the end of the movie, Jojo Rabbit.
If you're going to get tearful about Bowie, then surely "I can't give everything away" is where to go? The most eloquent 'goodbye' you can ever imagine from a magnificent artist.
This was a good example of why Bowie was as big as he was. He was performing, in the best possible way. He was being the amazing stage presence and actor that he became over the years and everyone expected him to be. We only get a glimpse of one side of him when he’s on stage. I think he had many different sides that different people, from other parts of his life would only see but this was his performance side.
Heroes at Live Aid is my favorite version
I’m so glad you did this live version out of all the versions out there, the banter before this song reinforces exactly what you are saying about him as person/performer.
My favorite Bowie song and one of my all-time favorite live performances by any artist anywhere. Just a magical performance.
My fav vetsion of this master piece!
I was lucky to see David Bowie in 1982 at MSG. In NYC. Stood on line to get tickets overnight! With my friends. A Legend!
Absolutely fantastic, what a voice, hope he's in heaven with Freddie and all the other good ones.
The arrangement was planned that way. As that song evolved over time in live performances he had the idea of it starting the song almost like a jam, like a throwaway and then it would get louder more serious more involved. The studio version is a whole other beast, with Tony Visconti (producer) inventing his famous three mike technique. Anyway you want incredible live Bowie, anything from 'A Reality Tour' is excellent, anything from Glastonbury phenomenal. both on DVD. It would be great if you could compare those two versions of "Heroes" to this one, I'm sure many people would like that. And yes also the Live Aid version. Also TVC15 from Live Aid and one of his greatest albums "Station to Station" is a must see.
I’m not usually proud to be British, but back in the day, I honestly think musically we had some of the best musicians, certainly in the Western world. Great song writers too.
The sustain that Robert Fripp placed on the original guitar part of this song always knocked me out. Fripp was recently on Daryl Hall’s podcast and they played this song together. Still a killer song.
Was that Robert Fripp?
@@Isleofskye Not in the live performance featured here. I should have qualified my response talking about Fripp’s guitar part on the original recording.
@@BSD0614 Thanks. Robert Fripp is one of those musicians that I heard about for 50+ years but never really heard or could identify...:)
Glad you came back to this song, I don't believe the studio version knocked you over. It's definitely in my Top 5 Bowie songs. You chould check out the extended version of "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)." It's equally amazing. You ever consider doing a live stream of songs you have since reassessed? Or maybe that's against your policy
I really love the performance of 'I Would Be Your Slave' from this concert, it's one of my favourite songs of his, and the slide guitar at the end is sublime!
From Ziggy Stardust to this...amazing!
So glad you did this one - my favorite version of this song. His laconic start to his impassioned end. One of the greatest progressions of all time. You should also check out King Crimson's tribute to Bowie when he passed doing Heroes also live in Berlin.
Perfection. The first time he sang this in Berlin seems to have been as early as 97 but this performance is in 2002 after the wall fell. But the fact that the fact that the song was contemporaneous with the time of the collapse of the Berlin wall makes it all the more poignant.
Genius barely describes his shapeshifting talent. He lived in and developed his chops in a pub in the town where I was born. His song "Memory of a free festival" is an homage to the event he and the local music collective he was a part of put on in the town in 1969 as he was on the cusp of greatness. He was always looking for something new or something more and his loss hit everyone who grew up with his music like a ton of bricks.
There was a beginning to this that you guys didn't see..Bowie jokes with the audience for a few minutes before he starts the song. Bowie...broke my heart. 'Old Lady Me' the music, always different and great.
This is an epic, one-off performance.....for all time......
love this version. he plays it rely sly for the first half and then they go full blast like the studio version. Brilliant.
I love everything Bowie but this may be my favorite live performance for all the reasons you said. He was the epitome of cool and both musically and socially way ahead of his time.
I still contend that the very best live version of "Heroes" is the one from Bowie's 1978 live album STAGE.
Saw him on the Serious Moonlight Tour in the 80s...amazing accuracy, stage performance was outstanding....even better since 300+ of us stormed the fence & got in FREE!
This is such a great video. It shows Bowie off in a live gig which is what he always loved best, in front of a live audience. His personality always came across so beautifully as the first part of the video (not shown here) demonstrates very clearly. God bless him. He was one of the greatest singer/songwriter/performer/storytellers ever and so sadly missed. 🙋♂ ❤
I saw a documentary about Bowie on t.v. I was so surprised how really cool & down to earth he was. He really liked people & would travel around the world & just hang with them. He said he loved performing, but to communicate with his audience. Not just being the rock star & playing that role like so many do. He was a cool guy, I was impressed. I grew up when he was first becoming a star & his music was so different from most bands. He was unique....
I saw him at Dodger Stadium when I was in college. Lenny Kravitz opened for him, and Adrian Belew showed up to be a part of the show. It was awesome!
The "standing by the wall" verse is always spine-tingling. I agree with Andy that there was a shift in his energy during this performance. At the top of the song, it felt to me like he was performing it for the millionth time - but just as he was getting to the wall verse, it's like he suddenly realized that he was singing to Berliners. I felt that his energy and sensibility shifted at that point precisely. The 2nd half was magical, and he was aware of that magic, leading to him genuinely saying "I felt that! God Bless Us" to those who actually lived through those dark days of the Berlin Wall in the shadow of the guard towers.
Absolute Beginners is a great one of Bowie's 80s songs, and I have a soft spot for loving the alien.