“New York's a go-go”
Though we didn't know it at the time (the correct date was only published five years ago), David Bowie played the first of his Roseland Ballroom 2000 shows on the 28th anniversary of The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders from Mars, twenty years ago this very evening.
Bowie performed an astonishing two and a half hour, 25-song set to 3,000 fans with many new additions since the previous Stateside Bowie shows, including performances of Wild Is The Wind, This Is Not America and Starman.
Back in June 2000, Total Blam Blam (billed as Our European Correspondent in New York), was dispatched to NY to take over David’s BowieNet journal, take some snaps and report on rehearsals and the Roseland 2000 shows.
Sign up to BOWIE KOOKS to view a photo album of some of his images from the 16th June 2000 soundcheck and show, here.
There is some very shaky fan footage on YouTube up to the intro of Station To Station. Despite the low quality it does give a flavour of some of the magic of that evening. There's also unofficial audio of the whole show here.
Meanwhile, we'll leave you with the setlist.
David Bowie, Roseland Ballroom, NY, Friday 16th June 2000
Wild Is The Wind
Life On Mars?
Golden Years
Changes
Stay
China Girl
Survive
Absolute Beginners
Ashes To Ashes
Rebel Rebel
Fame
This Is Not America
All The Young Dudes
Starman
The Man Who Sold The World
Under Pressure
Station To Station
(First Encore)
Seven
Thursday's Child
The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell
Hallo Spaceboy
(Second Encore)
Ziggy Stardust
'Heroes'
Let's Dance
I'm Afraid Of Americans
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