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Opening on the 30th May 1987, The Glass Spider World Tour visited fifteen countries and produced eighty-seven performances, as well as nine promotional press shows. The band consisted of: David Bowie (vocals, guitar, saxophone), Carlos Alomar (guitar), Peter Frampton (lead guitar), Carmine Rojas (bass), Alan Childs (drums), Erdal Kizilcay (keyboards, trumpet, congas, violin) and Richard Cottle (keyboards, saxophone). The dancers were: Melissa Hurley, Constance Marie, Craig Allen Rothwell (aka Spazz Attack), Viktor Manoel and Steven Nicholas (aka Skeeter Rabbit). In March before the tour started, a number of Press Shows were given in various countries. The band for these performances consisted of: David Bowie (vocals), Carlos Alomar (guitar), Peter Frampton (guitar), Alan Childs (drums), Carmine Rojas (bass) and Richard Cottle (keyboards).

David Bowie 'can't be compared to anyone,' Winnipeg rock journalist says

Iconic pop musician, performer, dead at 69 after 18-month battle with cancer.

David Bowie in Winnipeg 1983

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David Bowie is being remembered in Winnipeg and around the world today.

The iconic and shape-shifting musician, actor and performer who profoundly shaped popular culture and fashion in a career spanning five decades, has died after an 18-month battle with cancer.

The news came shortly after the release of his first album in three years, Blackstar.

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Rock journalist John Kendle said he fondly remembers the performer's multiple visits to Winnipeg over his five-decade music career.

"Bowie's artistic vision, his musical genius and the consistently high quality of his work throughout his career was something to be admired and musicians to aspire to," he said.

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​ In 1983, Kendle and some friends took a road trip to Edmonton to take in Bowie's Serious Moonlight Tour.

The tour then rolled through Winnipeg and the group went to see him again. It was an unbelievable show, Kendle said, adding each subsequent tour displayed Bowie's unique artistry. Bowie shared the stage with Peter Gabriel and The Tubes.

"I'll never forget that he just looked beyond human when he came on stage, because his hair was dyed almost white and you know the colourful costumes of the Serious Moonlight Tour were amazing," he said.

"In 1987, one of the first concerts I covered as a young reporter at the Winnipeg Sun was the Glass Spider Tour at Winnipeg Stadium. I remember it being an incredible spectacle. Peter Frampton played guitar for him. Duran Duran opened."

Although he never had a chance to interview Bowie, Kendle had one brief encounter with the legend when he got onto an elevator with Bowie and his handlers at the downtown hotel he was staying in when he played in Winnipeg in 1990.

"They let me off at the mezzanine level but not before I'd had a chance to say, 'Hello,' and give him a copy of the special section that we'd produced for the Winnipeg Sun that day," Kendle said.

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"'Oh, you're a journalist?' [Bowie asked], and then the elevator door opened and that was it."

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The last time Bowie performed in Winnipeg was at the old Winnipeg Arena for his A Reality Tour in 2004.

"This was a very relaxed, laid back Bowie. I remember him being in jeans and a jacket, playing the songs as though he'd come to terms with that this was his body of work and people were more than still willing to pay to come and see him," Kendle said.

"There was less of an artistic urgency about the show; it was more of a celebration of his music. And I guess since that was the last time he performed in Winnipeg, it was probably the best possible light that we could have seen him [in]."

Timeless music

Kendle said Bowie ranks high in his book of the most influential pop musicians of all time.

"The music is timeless, the songs are seared into my brain and I've got all of them kind of running around through my head right now — I'm still struggling to come to terms with it," he said.

David Bowie in Winnipeg 1987

"[He] can't be compared to anyone else. The influence that he had on generations upon generations of musicians is undeniable," said Kendle.

"Ziggy Stardust, through  Aladdin Sane  through the Thin White Duke, that period in the 70s — I don't think can be repeated by anyone in terms of its artistic reach musically," he added.

"He proved that you don't necessarily need to be stuffed into an envelope and called 'David Bowie' and that's what you are, you could reinvent yourself every album out, you could reinvent your sound every album out, you could reinvent your look every album out and do what you want.

"He brought elements of theatre, dance and mime to rock and roll, and the best rock and rollers and the best popular musicians these days are still doing things and attempting to do things that he did already in the late 60s and early 70s. He was a pioneer, no doubt."

Final album

Nicholas Greco, a media professor at Providence University College in Otterburne, Man., said Blackstar,  Bowie's final offering, shows the artist transform yet again and takes on a whole new meaning now that he's gone.

"It's very interesting and it puts a whole different perspective on the album now that we listen to it today," Greco said. "Yesterday, listening to it was a very different experience than it is listening to it today.

"You know the cynic might say, 'Well, they released the album in order to sort of cash in on his impending death.' But in many ways this is the perfect way for him to do it."

Manitobans shared their condolences, and favourite Bowie memories, on Twitter Monday.

He was the last concert I saw in the old <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/winnipeg?src=hash">#winnipeg</a> arena before it was torn down. It was magic. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DavidBowie?src=hash">#DavidBowie</a> &mdash; @delifte

1st concert ever attended: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DavidBowie?src=hash">#DavidBowie</a> Glass Spider tour at Winnipeg Stadium. Fav song by him: I'm Afraid of Americans. RIP Ziggy Stardust &mdash; @Mayor_Bowman

Saw Bowie in Winnipeg when I was 14. Was in the front row, he came over, grinned, and threw a pick to me. Meant so much to me <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RIPDavidBowie?src=hash">#RIPDavidBowie</a> &mdash; @sarahrosepetz

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Golden Years: One Vogue Editor on Growing Up to a David Bowie Soundtrack

By Corey Seymour

On August 19, 1987, a handful of friends and I road-tripped from our tiny hometown in central North Dakota five hours north across the Canadian border to Winnipeg to see David Bowie on his Glass Spider tour. Bowie was a few years on the other side of his big Let’s Dance commercial resurgence, which he’d followed up with the middling Tonight , but none of this mattered a whit to any of us—we were seeing David Fucking Bowie live in concert ! Nothing any of us had seen up to this point in our lives had any standing compared to this.

I don’t know if any of us even anticipated what we were about to behold in terms of the staging itself, which consisted of an enormous neon arachnid suspended above the stage, its legs draped out over and around the performers’ space. Space-alien types with pink triangles affixed to their heads dropped from above, and then Bowie himself, dressed in a chartreuse suit, was lowered on some sort of gilded throne while talking some kind of gibberish about glass spiders on a kind of steampunk telephone. He had arrived.

Teenaged me loved the pop splendor of Let’s Dance , but it was the dystopian weirdness of Bowie’s “Ashes to Ashes” video from a few years earlier, caught on the early days of MTV, that truly captured my imagination and, honestly, freaked me out. The music I’d grown up with wasn’t much for subversion, or boundary-pushing, or weirdness, yet here was Bowie curled up in the corner of a padded cell, spooky religious nutjobs (who, I had to admit, looked so cool ) parading in front of that color-saturated bulldozer. Once I finally got around to listening to the lyrics, I was shattered: My spaceman hero Major Tom, from just a few years ago, is now a junkie ?!

Obviously, I had some growing up to do. What still blows my mind, though, is how from the first time I heard him to the last, Bowie was always relevant to my life, always relevant to the world we lived in. Maybe it took us a while to come around to a few things and light out for new psychological and emotional territory, but when we did, we soon learned that Bowie had already been there and come back to write and sing about it. If he didn’t introduce weirdness to my cultural life—that might have been Devo—he certainly fostered it, celebrated it, and elevated it as something beyond mere curiosity or eccentricity, something essential, and something honest and true.

I never met the man and had only one “encounter,” though even that might be overstating the case. In 1992 I was working at Rolling Stone , which was celebrating its 25th anniversary with a big party at the Four Seasons. My responsibility that night was to make sure that Hunter S. Thompson arrived with his speech written; when Hunter, of course, arrived without said speech, I was to keep the throngs of fans and celebrity friends away from him while he wrote it at the bar in the Grill Room—something he actually, shockingly, did. Then we were given the nod—Hunter was up next. We slowly made our way through the crowd and into the Pool Room and edged our way right up below the dais—directly in front of David Bowie, who was seated with Iman at a front row table. Ed Bradley was beginning to introduce Hunter when suddenly Hunter dropped down to the ground and sat, cross-legged, directly in front of Bowie, and produced a large canister of pharmaceutical-quality cocaine from a container he kept in his sock. Then he began to snort it with a hollowed-out plastic Bic pen, rather loudly. Almost instantly, Hunter rapped me—hard—on my shin and whisper-barked, “Shield me, goddammit!” I did as I was told, but I couldn’t help but notice that as I did, the shin just a few inches to the left of my head was none other than David Bowie’s. I looked up and caught Bowie’s eye for a long moment, and I’ll never forget his expression—at once bewildered, amused, and detached, with this thin-lipped, straight-line smile and slightly raised eyebrows. It meant nothing; it meant everything.

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Fast-forward 20-some years and my wife, Biba (who I’d fallen in love with all over again when I saw the photo of her, about age 4, dressed as a Bowie Pierrot character out of the “Ashes to Ashes” video, courtesy of her Bowie-obsessed mother), and I were trying to figure out how to talk to our toddler daughter about some of the Big Things in life that she was starting to ask about—life, death, God, and other such passing fripperies. It hardly seemed fair, I reasoned, to lay a preordained cosmology on her when talk of God would only seem to invite the sort of questions about organized religion that we were trying to steer clear of, at least for now—and I didn’t think she was quite ready for Nietzsche’s whole God-is-dead rap. We decided that what Esme needed to know about the Big Picture was pretty much contained on side one, track four of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars : that there’s a starman waiting in the sky, and he’s told us not to blow it ’cause he knows it’s all worthwhile.

Riding the subway to work this morning, fighting back tears as I listened to “Cygnet Committee” off Space Oddity , I couldn’t help but notice what seemed to be a few like-minded people lost in their own tunes on their own headphones, and I know—I just know —that more than a few of them had their own Bowie soundtrack going on. I don’t think we’ll see anyone like him ever again, which is part of the great outpouring of love and grief and appreciation. I’d heard he’d been ill, though I knew nothing of the severity. Oddly, though, it had never occurred to me to ponder life in a world without Bowie. But still, more essentially: We had life with David Bowie.

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1980: megahype 1981: first uk · faster than light · first european · first american · first german · careless memories 1982-84: rio · tracks across america · sing blue silver 1987-89: strange behaviour · glass spider · secret caravan · big live thing · european summer festival 1990-95: an acoustic evening · dilate your mind · radio station festival 1997-99: ultra chrome, latex and steel · greatest and latest · let it flow 2000-01: pop trash · up close and personal 2003-06: reunion · astronaut 2007-09: red carpet massacre · summer 2009 2011-12: all you need is now · 2015-18: paper gods

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• [1987-08-12] Denver CO (USA), Mile High Stadium
• [1987-08-14] Portland OR (USA), Portland Civic Stadium
• [1987-08-15] Vancouver BA (Canada), Place Stadium
• [1987-08-17] Edmonton, Alberta (Canada), Commonwealth Stadium
• [1987-08-19] Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada), Winnipeg Stadium
• [1987-08-21] Chicago IL (USA), Rosemont Horizon
• [1987-08-22] Chicago IL (USA), Rosemont Horizon
• [1987-08-24] Toronto, Ontario (Canada), Molson CNE Stadium
• [1987-08-25] Toronto, Ontario (Canada), Molson CNE Stadium
• [1987-08-28] Ottawa, Ontario (Canada), Landsdown Park
• [1987-08-30] Montreal, Quebec (Canada), Olympic Stadium
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• 2 New Moon on Monday
• 3 Barbarella (film)

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David Bowie 1987 Glass Spider Tour

Tour by David Bowie Start date 30 May 1987 End date 28november 1987 Legs 3 Shows 86

David Bowie 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

Tour Date – City – Country – Venue

Promotional press shows 17 March 1987 Toronto, Ontario,Canada,Diamond Club 18 March 1987 New York City, New York,United States,Cat Club 20 March 1987 London,England,Player’s Theatre 21 March 1987 Paris,France,,La Locomotive 24 March 1987 Madrid,Spain,,Halquera Plateaux 25 March 1987 Rome,Italy,Piper 26 March 1987 Munich,Germany,Parkcafe Lowenbrau 28 March 1987  Stockholm,Sweden,Ritz 30 March 1987 Amsterdam,Netherlands Paradiso

Europe 30 May 1987 Rotterdam ,Netherlands,Stadion Feijenoord 31 May 1997 Rotterdam ,Netherlands,Stadion Feijenoord 02 June 1987 Werchter,Belgium,Rock Werchter 06 June 1987 Berlin,Germany,Platz der Republik 07 June 1987 Nürburgring,Rock am Ring 09 June 1987 Florence,Italy,Stadio Comunale 10 June 198 7 Milan,Stadio San Siro 13 June 1987 Hamburg,Germany,Festwiese Am Stadtpark 15 June 1987 Rome,Italy,Stadio Flaminio 16 June 1987  Rome,Italy,Stadio Flaminio 19 June 1987 London,England,Wembley Stadium 20 June 1987 London,England,Wembley Stadium 21 June 1987 Cardiff,Wales,Cardiff Arms Park 23 June 1987 Sunderland,England,Roker Park 27 June 198 7 Gothenburg,Sweden(Cancelled) Ullevi Stadium Hisingen,Eriksbergsvarvet 28 June 1987 Lyon,France,Stade de Gerland 01 July 1987 Vienna,Austria,Praterstadion 03 July 1987 Paris,France,Parc départemental de La Courneuve 04 July 1987 Toulouse,Stadium Municipal de Toulouse 06 July 1987 Madrid,Spain,Vicente Calderón Stadium 07 July 1987 Barcelona,Ministadio C.F. 08 July 1987 Barcelona,Ministadio C.F. 11 July 1987 County Meath,Ireland,Slane Castle 14 July 1987 Manchester,England,Maine Road Football Ground 15 July 1987 Manchester,England,Maine Road Football Ground 17 July 1987  Nice,France,Stade De L’Ouest 18 July 1987  Turin,Italy,Stadio Comunale di Torino

North America 30 July 1987 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,United States,Veterans Stadium 31 July 1987 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,United States,Veterans Stadium 02 august 1987  East Rutherford, New Jersey,Giants Stadium 03 august 1987  East Rutherford, New Jersey,Giants Stadium 07 august 1987  San Jose, California,Spartan Stadium 08 august 1987  Anaheim, California,Anaheim Stadium 09 august 1987  Anaheim, California,Anaheim Stadium 12 august 1987  Denver, Colorado,Mile High Stadium 14 august 1987  Portland, Oregon,Civic Stadium 15 august 1987  Vancouver, British Columbia,Canada,BC Place Stadium 17 august 1987  Edmonton, Alberta,Commonwealth Stadium 19 august 1987  Winnipeg, Manitoba,Winnipeg Stadium 21 august 1987  Rosemont, Illinois,United States,Rosemont Horizon 22 august 1987  Rosemont, Illinois,United States,Rosemont Horizon 24 august 1987  Toronto, Ontario,Canada,Canadian National Exhibition Stadium 25 august 1987  Toronto, Ontario,Canada,Canadian National Exhibition Stadium 28 august 1987  Ottawa, Ontario,Frank Clair Stadium 30 august 1987 Montreal, Quebec,Olympic Stadium 01 september 1987  New York City, New York,United States,Madison Square Garden 02 september 1987 New York City, New York,United States,Madison Square Garden 03 september 1987  Foxborough, Massachusetts,Sullivan Stadium 06 september 1987  Chapel Hill, North Carolina,Dean Smith Center 07 september 1987  Chapel Hill, North Carolina,Dean Smith Center 10 september 1987  Milwaukee, Wisconsin,Marcus Amphitheater 11 september 1987  Milwaukee, Wisconsin,Marcus Amphitheater 12 september 1987  Pontiac, Michigan,Pontiac Silverdome 14 september 1987  Lexington, Kentucky,Rupp Arena 18 september 1987  Miami, Florida,Miami Orange Bowl 19 september 1987 Tampa, Florida,Tampa Stadium 21 september 1987  Atlanta, Georgia,Omni Coliseum 22 september 1987  Atlanta, Georgia,Omni Coliseum 25 september 1987 Hartford, Connecticut,Hartford Civic Center 28 september 1987  Landover, Maryland,Capital Centre 29 september 1987 Landover, Maryland,Capital Centre 01 October 1987 St. Paul, Minnesota,St. Paul Civic Center 02 October 1987 St. Paul, Minnesota,St. Paul Civic Center 04 October 1987 Kansas City, Missouri,Kemper Arena 06 October 1987 New Orleans, Louisiana,Louisiana Superdome 07 October 1987 Houston, Texas,The Summit 08 October 1987 Houston, Texas,The Summit 10 October 1987 Dallas, Texas,Reunion Arena 11 October 1987  Dallas, Texas,Reunion Arena 13 October 1987 Los Angeles, California,Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena 14 October 1987 Los Angeles, California,Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena

Oceania 29 October 1987 Brisbane,Australia,Boondall Entertainment Centre 30 October 1987 Brisbane,Australia,Boondall Entertainment Centre 03 november 1987 Sydney,Sydney, Entertainment Centre 04 november 1987  Sydney,Sydney, Entertainment Centre 06 november 1987  Sydney,Sydney, Entertainment Centre 07 november 1987  Sydney,Sydney, Entertainment Centre 09 november 1987  Sydney,Sydney, Entertainment Centre 10 november 1987  Sydney,Sydney, Entertainment Centre 13 november 1987  Sydney,Sydney, Entertainment Centre 14 november 1987  Sydney,Sydney, Entertainment Centre 18 november 1987  Melbourne,Kooyong Stadium 20 november 1987  Melbourne,Kooyong Stadium 21 november 1987  Melbourne,Kooyong Stadium 23 november 1987  Melbourne,Kooyong Stadium 28 november 1987  Auckland,New Zealand,Western Springs Stadium

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From  The Man Who Sold the World

• “ All the Madmen “

From  Aladdin Sane

• “ The Jean Genie “
• “ Time “

From  Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture

• “ White Light/White Heat ” (originally from  White Light/White Heat  (1968) by  The Velvet Underground ; written by  Lou Reed )

From  Diamond Dogs

• “ Big Brother “
• “Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family”
• “ Rebel Rebel “

From  Young Americans

• “ Fame ” (Bowie,  John Lennon ,  Carlos Alomar )
• “ Young Americans “

From  “Heroes”

• “ ‘Heroes’ ” (Bowie,  Brian Eno )
• “ Sons of the Silent Age “

From  Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)

• “ Fashion “
• “ Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) “
• “ Up the Hill Backwards “

From  Let’s Dance

• “ China Girl ” (originally from  The Idiot  by  Iggy Pop , written by Pop and Bowie)
• “ Let’s Dance “
• “ Modern Love “

From  Tonight

• “ Blue Jean “
• “Dancing With the Big Boys” (Bowie, Pop,  Carlos Alomar )
• “ Loving the Alien “

From  Never Let Me Down

• “’87 and Cry”
• “ Bang Bang ” (Pop,  Ivan Kral )
• “Beat of Your Drum”
• “ Day-In Day-Out “
• “Glass Spider”
• “ Never Let Me Down ” (Bowie, Alomar)
• “New York’s in Love”
• “ Time Will Crawl “
• “Zeroes”

Other songs:

• “ Absolute Beginners ” (from  Absolute Beginners )
• “ I Wanna Be Your Dog ” (from  The Stooges  (1969) by  The Stooges , written by Pop,  Dave Alexander ,  Ron Asheton  and  Scott Asheton )
• “ Lavender’s Blue ” (traditional)
• “ London Bridge Is Falling Down ” (traditional)
• “ War ” (from  War & Peace  (1970) by  Edwin Starr ; written by  Norman Whitfield  and  Barrett Strong )
• “Who Will Buy?” (from the musical  Oliver! )

Rehearsed, but not performed:

• “Because You’re Young” (from  Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) )
• “ Scream Like a Baby ” (from  Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) )
• “Shining Star (Makin’ My Love)” (from  Never Let Me Down )

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Live: Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton

David Bowie performed at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Canada, on 22 August 1987, as part of the Glass Spider Tour.

It was the 38th date of the tour, which began on 30 May in Rotterdam .

Bowie’s guitarists were Carlos Alomar and Peter Frampton. Erdal Kızılçay played keyboards, trumpet, congas, and violin, and Richard Cottle was on keyboards, saxophone, and tambourine. Carmine Rojas played bass guitar and Alan Childs was on drums and percussion.

Bowie had previously performed at the stadium on 7 August 1983 during the Serious Moonlight Tour.

The 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’
• ‘Rebel Rebel’
• ‘Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)’
• ‘All The Madmen’
• ‘Never Let Me Down’
• ‘Big Brother’
• ‘Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family’
• ‘’87 And Cry’
• ‘Sons Of The Silent Age’
• ‘Time Will Crawl’
• ‘Young Americans’
• ‘Beat Of Your Drum’
• ‘The Jean Genie’
• ‘Let’s Dance’
• ‘Blue Jean’
• ‘White Light/White Heat’
• ‘Modern Love’

Also on this day...

• 1983: Live: Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Phoenix
• 1974: Recording: Young Americans
• 1972: Rehearsal: Rainbow Theatre, London
• 1969: Live: Three Tuns, Beckenham
• 1964: Live: Davie Jones and the Manish Boys, Astor Theatre, Deal

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