Earthling Tour

Earthling Tour
Bowie performing at the Ruisrock festival in Finland
Tour by David Bowie
Associated album	Earthling
Start date	7 June 1997
End date	7 November 1997
Legs	3
Shows	83
David Bowie tour chronology
Outside Summer Festivals Tour (1996) Earthling Tour (1997) The Hours... Tour (1999)

The David Bowie Earthling Tour opened on 7 June 1997 at Flughafen Blankense - Lübeck, Germany continuing through Europe, North America before reaching a conclusion in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 7 November 1997.

History

Bowie and his band began rehearsing for the tour in April 1997, and expected the tour to last "from May through Christmas" (1997). Bowie expected it to be "really extensive, a long, long tour."^[1]

The original concept of the tour was to perform two separate set lists, one regular, and one dance-oriented set incorporating drum and bass.^[2] The two set-lists was abandoned, due to media critics and audience apathy,^[3] after the Muziekcentrum Vredenburg - Utrecht performance on 11 June 1997 with elements of each incorporated into the one set.

The 19 July 1997 Phoenix Festival performance, was billed as Tao Jones Index, in the BBC Radio 1 dance tent preceded the regular performance on the main stage the following day. The 14 October 1997 show at the Capitol Theatre - Port Chester, NY, broadcast on MTV's Live from the 10 Spot, was added at short-notice due to cancellation by The Rolling Stones. The following show on 15 October 1997 at the Radio City Music Hall - New York City was as part of the GQ Awards. The set-list for the shows included a version of the Laurie Anderson work O Superman with lead vocals by Gail Ann Dorsey. Tour Publicist Tony Michaelides handled press, radio & television for Bowie.

Tour band

• David Bowie - vocals, guitar, alto & baritone saxophone
• Reeves Gabrels - guitar
• Gail Ann Dorsey - bass guitar, vocals, keyboards
• Zachary Alford - drums, percussion
• Mike Garson - keyboards

Tour dates

Songs

From The Man Who Sold the World

• "The Man Who Sold the World"
• "The Supermen"

From Hunky Dory

• "Quicksand"
• "Queen Bitch"

From The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

• "Moonage Daydream"

From Aladdin Sane

• "Panic in Detroit"
• "The Jean Genie"

From Young Americans

• "Fame" (Bowie, John Lennon, Carlos Alomar)

From Station to Station

• "Stay"

From Low

• "Always Crashing in the Same Car"

From "Heroes"

• "Heroes" (Bowie, Brian Eno)
• "V-2 Schneider"

From Lodger

• "Look Back in Anger" (Bowie, Eno)

From Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

• "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)"
• "Fashion"

From Tin Machine

• "I Can't Read" (Bowie, Reeves Gabrels)

From Black Tie White Noise

• "Pallas Athena"

From Outside

• "Outside" (Bowie, Kevin Armstrong)
• "The Hearts Filthy Lesson" (Bowie, Eno, Gabrels, Mike Garson, Erdal Kizilcay, Sterling Campbell)
• "Hallo Spaceboy" (Bowie, Eno)
• "The Motel" (Bowie, Eno)
• "The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (as Beauty)" (Bowie, Eno, Gabrels)
• "I'm Deranged" (Bowie, Eno)
• "Strangers When We Meet"

From Earthling

• "Little Wonder" (Bowie, Gabrels, Mark Plati)
• "Looking for Satellites" (Bowie, Gabrels, Plati)
• "Battle for Britain (The Letter)" (Bowie, Gabrels, Plati)
• "Seven Years in Tibet" (Bowie, Gabrels)
• "Dead Man Walking" (Bowie, Gabrels)
• "Dead Man Walking (Moby Mix)" (Bowie, Gabrels)
• "Telling Lies"
• "The Last Thing You Should Do" (Bowie, Gabrels, Plati)
• "I'm Afraid of Americans" (Bowie, Eno)

Other songs:

• "All the Young Dudes" (from All the Young Dudes by Mott the Hoople, written by Bowie)
• "Can't Help Thinking About Me" (early non-album single)
• "Is It Any Wonder?" (Instrumental proto version of Fame)
• "My Death" (from La Valse à Mille Temps by Jacques Brel, written by Brel & Shuman)
• "O Superman" (from United States Live by Laurie Anderson, written by Anderson)
• "Under Pressure" (a single by Bowie and Queen from the Queen's Hot Space, written by Bowie, John Deacon, Brian May, Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor)
• "Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu)" (a single by Domenico Modugno, written by Modugno and Franco Migliacci)
• "Waiting for the Man" (from The Velvet Underground & Nico by The Velvet Underground and Nico, written by Lou Reed)
• "White Light/White Heat" (from White Light/White Heat by The Velvet Underground, written by Reed)

Notes

References

• David Buckley, Strange Fascination: The Definitive Biography of David Bowie, Virgin Books, 1999, ISBN 1-85227-784-X