Sound and Vision Tour

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Sound+Vision Tour
Rock in Chile
27 September 1990
Tour by David Bowie
Locations Europe
North America
Japan
South America
Start date 4 March 1990
End date 29 September 1990
Legs 7
Shows 108
David Bowie tour chronology
Glass Spider Tour
(1987)
Sound+Vision Tour
(1990)
Outside Tour
(1995-96)
Tin Machine tour chronology
Tin Machine Tour
(1989)
It's My Life Tour
(1991-92)

The David Bowie Sound+Vision Tour opened at the Colisée de Québec - Quebec City, QC on 4 March 1990 before reaching its conclusion at the Rock in Chile Festival - Santiago, Chile on 29 September 1990. The concert tour surpassed the previous Serious Moonlight and Glass Spider Tour's statistics by visiting 27 countries, lasting seven months, with 108 performances. For the ten performances in the United Kingdom it was estimated the audience figure was 250,000[1] in total.

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The impetus for the Sound+Vision Tour was EMI and Rykodisc being keen for Bowie to promote his back-catalogue re-issue programme that had started in 1989 with the release of the Sound and Vision box set. It was announced that the set-list for any given performance of the tour would be partially determined by the most popular titles logged in a telephone poll, a further declaration was that thereafter Bowie would never perform his greatest hits again[2]. The NME in response to the telephone poll ran a spoof campaign, Just Say Gnome, in an effort to have The Laughing Gnome included in the set-lists[3].

A number of performances were filmed and recorded for television and radio broadcasts; Milton Keynes Bowl 5 August 1990 broadcast by BBC Radio, Estadio de Palmeiras - São Paulo 23 September 1990 broadcast by Radio Transamérica. TV broadcasts; Tokyo Dome 16 May 1990, Sambodromo de Rio - Rio de Janeiro 20 September 1990 by TV Globo and Rock in Chile Festival - Estadio Nacional de Chile 27 September 1990.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Christopher Sandford, Bowie: Loving the Alien, Warner Books, 1997, ISBN 0751519243
  2. ^ Nicholas Pegg, The Complete David Bowie, Reynolds & Hearn Ltd, 2004, ISBN 1-903111-73-0
  3. ^ David Buckley, Strange Fascination: The Definitive Biography of David Bowie, Virgin Books, 1999, ISBN 1-85227-784X