David Bowie concert tours

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Chapters: A Reality Tour, Diamond Dogs Tour, Earthling Tour, Glass Spider Tour, Heathen Tour, Isolar II - The 1978 World Tour, Isolar - 1976 Tour, It's My Life Tour, List of David Bowie concert tours, Mini Tour (David Bowie), Outside Summer Festivals Tour, Outside Tour, Serious Moonlight Tour, Sound+Vision Tour, The Hours... Tour, Tin Machine Tour, Ziggy Stardust Tour. Excerpt: In 1987, David Bowie embarked on The Glass Spider Tour in support of the album Never Let Me Down alongside famed guitarist Peter Frampton. The tour was named after the album track "Glass Spider." The concert tour was the most ambitious by Bowie up to that date, surpassing the Serious Moonlight Tour of 1983 in terms of audience figures and number of performances. Demand for tickets to the tour was high, and it has been estimated by the conclusion of the tour a total of three million people had attended, beating Bowie's old record of 2.6m tickets sold for the Serious Moonlight Tour. The 3 September show at Sullivan Stadium in Massachusetts set a record for quickest sellout at that venue, a record matched by U2 and unsurpassed until The Who sold 100,000 tickets to two shows there in less than 8 hours in 1989. Bowie claimed that at the time, performing on this tour was the most fun he'd ever had on tour because it was the "most inventive" tour he'd ever been involved with. Although not received well by critics at the time, the show laid groundwork for more theatrical rock events in years to come. In 1991 Bowie said "The Stones' show, Prince's show, Madonna's show... all of them have benefited from tour." David Bowie being lowered from the spider set's ceiling, to the opening song "Glass Spider" at Rock am Ring - 7 June 1987Bowie indicated that he had two goals for this tour: to return to the theatrics that he had performed during his short-lived 1974 Diamond Dogs tour and to play less-well-known songs. Comparing the upcoming tour with his previous outing, Bowie stated: Bowie elaborated on the risk he was taking with this tour: All but two songs ("Too Dizzy" and "Shining Star (Makin' My Love)") from his album Never Let Me Down were played live over the life of the tour. Songs performed during the tour were "chosen because they fit the performance" and fit Bowie's goal to make a show that was a lot more theatrical and had strong dramatic content. "You'll be surprised what