Kingston Polytechnic, London, UK on 6 May 1972
&
Royal Festival Hall, London, UK on 8 July 1972
David Bowie With Lou Reed
Kingston Polytechnic, London, UK on 6 May 1972
&
Royal Festival Hall, London, UK on 8 July 1972
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| Source: Audience | Sound Quality: CCC | Art Work:CCCC |
At last the complete Kingston Poly show got released on CD! The sound quality is equal to the vinyl, which is almost excellent if you consider that this is an audience recording from '72! The second show is not as good as the first one when it comes to the sound quality, but it is interesting. This was the first live performance ever by Lou Reed in Europe! He sings his own songs. A nice Japanese issue
DB72-5-6 DB72-7-8 released in 1996.
Track Listing
| Disc 1 - Kingston Polytechnic, London, UK on 6 May 1972 | Disc 2 - Royal Festival Hall, London, UK on 8 July 1972 |
| Hang On To Yourself | Introduction |
| Ziggy Stardust | Hang On To Yourself |
| The Supermen | Ziggy Stardust |
| Queen Bitch | Life On Mars? |
| Song For Bob Dylan | The Supermen |
| Changes | Starman |
| Starman | Changes |
| Five Years | Five Years |
| Space Oddity | Space Oddity |
| Andy Warhol | Andy Warhol |
| Amsterdam | Amsterdam |
| I Feel Free | I Feel Free |
| Moonage Daydream | Moonage Daydream |
| White Light White Heat | White Light White Heat |
| Gotta Get A Job | Waiting For The Man 1 |
| Suffragette City | Sweet Jane 1 |
| Rock'n'Roll Suicide | Suffragette City 1 |
| Waiting For The Man |
Special guest vocals from Lou Reed 1
Record Mirror - 15th July 1972
LIVE!
DAVID BOWIE
By Charles Webster
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL: David Bowie will soon become the greatest entertainer Britain
has ever known. His performance on Saturday at the "Save The Whale" Friends of
the Earth concert was a triumph for the showmanship as well as music. His talent seems
unlimited and he looks certain to become the most important person in pop music on both
sides of the Atlantic. He is a real star, incorporating the things that made people like
Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland and The Beatles so very special.
The atmosphere that surrounded him at the Festival Hall could be felt so positively that
even before he appeared on stage it was obvious that somebody unique was about to take the
platform. With his Spiders From Mars band, featuring another man, Mick Ronson, destined
for superstardom, he performed a selection of numbers from his "Hunky Dory" and
"Ziggy Stardust" albums and added to the delight of the 3,000 strong audience,
"Space Oddity" and the wistful "Amsterdam." After a dozen numbers,
Bowie was joined by Lou Reed, once of the legendary Velvet Underground, for three numbers,
and I had the feeling that as much as David wanted to pay tribute to Reed, the inclusion
of the American into the act was quite unnecessary.
The people were there to Save the Whale and to see Bowie, who compere Kenny Everett
described as the "next biggest thing to God," - a mere mortal next to our hero
from Mars - seemed to destroy the illusion that Bowie had spent the entire evening
creating. Marmalade opened the show and suffered amplification trouble from the word go.
It was a shame for lead guitarist Hughie Nicholson, who was making his farewell
performance with the band. The other act on the bill, the JSD Band were very funny, but I
was left with the feeling that they should have devoted more time to playing music than
telling humorous anecdotes.