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David Bowie

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Day
25
Month
March
Year
1976
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At Olympia Stadium, Feb. 29-March 1

The unexpected storm in Detroit March 1st only seemed to heighten the excitement around Olympia Stadium, where David Bowie drew upwards of 10,000 people into the rain for his second night at the giant ice arena. The undisputed king of glitter rock and roll brought his 1976 touring company to the Motor City without glitter or glam, but it seemed to make little difference to his many fans as he took the stage dressed in casual black slacks and vest, with a white the-neck shirt, to deliver hit recording after hit recording.

Bowie craftily intermingled songs from his new Station to Station album with old favorites "Suffragette City," "Panic in Detroit," "Diamond Dogs," Five Years,"

"Fame," and any number of others, demonstrating his theatrical bent by acting out the more dramatic features for his frenzied audience, a mob which started to get out of hand during Bowie's urgent "Stay If You Want To." He reached out and took a long-stemmed red rose from an admirer during "Diamond Dogs," and on "Wham-Bam-A-Lam" Bowie offered his Little Richard impression complete with unbuttoned shirt, torn-off cufflinks and vest.

Bowie's band Tony Kay, keyboards; George Murray, bass; Dennis Davis, drums; Stacey Hagen and Carlos Alomar, guitars-turned in a workman like backing performance, with Davis especially outstanding, and Bowie built his way through a crowd-pleasing set which culminated in the two Iggy Pop-identified numbers "Sister Midnight" (very funky) and the well-known "Jean Genie," both played as encoles for the still-raving fans. Waving kisses, Bowie danced off-stage and back into his main career as a movie star well assured of a turnout for his first film, The Man Who FellTo Earth. And that's where you'll see him next, if you see him any where at all.