Classic Bowie bootleg hitsstores

Fri 18th Apr, 2008 in International News

David Bowie tragics (there’s one in all of us) can’t go past the bootleg recording of the man’s 1972 performance at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. All these years it has been knocking around free of charge, but now Bowie is giving it a proper release – with a price tag.

According to the Guardian, David Bowie, Live Santa Monica ‘72 is released late June in the UK, on both CD and double vinyl. It was recorded at the height of Ziggy Stardust fever.

“I can tell that I’m totally into being Ziggy by this stage of our touring,” claims Bowie in a press statement. “It’s no longer an act; I am him.

“This would be around the 10th American show for us and you can hear that we are all pretty high on ourselves,” he continues. “We train wreck a couple of things, I miss some words and sometimes you wouldn’t know that pianist Mike Garson was onstage with us but overall I really treasure this bootleg. Mick Ronson is at his blistering best.”

And here’s the tracklisting for the release.

Introduction
Hang On To Yourself
Ziggy Stardust
Changes
The Supermen
Life On Mars?
Five Years
Space Oddity
Andy Warhol
My Death
The Width Of A Circle
Queen Bitch
Moonage Daydream
John, I’m Only Dancing
I’m Waiting For The Man (Velvet Underground cover)
The Jean Genie
Suffragette City
Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide