“We've got four years”
Despite playing many February shows during his concert career, David Bowie only ever played one concert on this date, 29th February.
It's generally accepted that a David Bowie performance scheduled for the Locarno Ballroom, Sunderland, on Tuesday 29th February, 1972, was cancelled.
However, in 1976, exactly four years later, he performed at the Olympia Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and not at the Cobo Arena in the same city as is sometimes reported. (He did play the Cobo on tours either side of the 1976 Isolar Tour in 1974 and 1978.)
The picture here was taken by MICHAEL MARKS At the Olympia Stadium Show on the 29th (Bowie also played the following evening at the same venue).
In fact, it's most likely that he never performed on this date again on account of 29th February being a four-yearly occurrence every leap year. But why let a flimsy theory stand in the way of a great picture? 😉
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