デヴィッド・ボウイのインスタグラム(davidbowie) - 2月3日 14時04分

ISOLAR 1 TOUR KICKS OFF 45 YEARS AGO TONIGHT

“The European canon is here…

Forty-five years ago, on 2nd of February 1976, the ISOLAR 1 World Tour* commenced at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, Canada.

Following the surrealist shock of show opener, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí's Un Chien Andalou, Bowie walked onto the stage at around 20:50 (right about now if you’re in Vancouver) to the opening strains of Station To Station in front of a 17,500 strong audience.

Fronting a band comprised of Carlos Alomar (rhythm guitar), Stacy Heydon (lead guitar), Dennis Davis (drums, percussion), George Murray (bass) and Tony Kaye (keyboards, synthesisers), Bowie was icy cool in black and white with a swept back shock of blond and crimson hair.

The show was reported in a couple of local newspapers the following day. Here’s a short excerpt from Nick Collier’s review in the Vancouver Sun...

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“Bowie has long claimed to be an actor playing out a role as a rock star. Film is the medium of expression with which he has become enamored, and his spartan set, lit with dozens of white spotlights, strengthened the image.

He was slightly tense, but the effect as he sang “the return of the thin white duke/throwing darts in lover’s eyes” was stunning.

The proclamatory verse from Station To Station segued into Suffragette City with a burst of brilliant light, and Bowie smiled like a shy child on the beach at Sybaris.

Carnations and roses were tossed from the audience as he sang Waiting For The Man and then moved on to the strange spiritual call of Word On A Wing.”

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The image by Robert Murray top left in our montage appeared in the same half-page review and must have been the first published photograph of The Thin White Duke live. The main image of Bowie in similar pose was taken by Andrew Kent. The other images are of the Vancouver pass and the ISOLAR tour programme.

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