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On this day, 8 Jan 1947, the rock icon David Bowie was born. He was a leading figure in the music industry and regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.
Bowie was the first artist to play the Cardiff Arms Park, National Stadium when he brought his Glass Spider tour for the City’s first ever stadium rock concert.
It was the biggest and best rock concert Wales had ever seen with total of 50,000 people paying £750,000 to see a legend David Bowie, who was 40, and sent his fans wild with excitement with a set of hits, both ancient and modern.
There was a taste of everything from Heroes from 1977 to Zeroes from his then latest album, Never Let Me Down, echoing around a stadium more used to the hymns and arias of the rugby crowd and Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Tour band 1987 – The Glass Spider Tour
• David Bowie – vocals, guitar
• Peter Frampton – guitar, vocals
• Carlos Alomar – guitar, backing vocals, music director
• Carmine Rojas – bass guitar
• Alan Childs – drums
• Erdal Kızılçay – keyboards, trumpet, congas, violin, backing vocals
• Richard Cottle – keyboards, saxophone, tambourine, backing vocals
Tour dancers
• Melissa Hurley
• Constance Marie
• Spazz Attack (Craig Allen Rothwell)
• Viktor Manoel
• Stephen Nichols
• Toni Basil (choreography)
Tour design
• Allen Branton – Lighting design
• Mark Ravitz – Set design
• Christine Strand – Video director
Setlist
Up the Hill Backwards
Glass Spider
Up the Hill Backwards
(Reprise)
Day-In Day-Out
Bang Bang
Absolute Beginners
Loving the Alien
China Girl
Fashion
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
All the Madmen
Never Let Me Down
Big Brother
Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family
'87 and Cry
"Heroes"
Time Will Crawl
Beat of Your Drum
Sons of the Silent Age
Dancing With the Big Boys
Zeroes
Let's Dance
Fame
Encore:
Blue Jean
Modern Love
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