David Bowie - I'm Only Dancing (The Soul Tour 74) (Vinyl 2xLP) (2020) [24bit/48kHz]

Taken from recently discovered sources in The David Bowie Archive®, I’M ONLY DANCING (THE SOUL TOUR 74) was recorded mostly during David’s performance at the Michigan Palace, Detroit on 20th October, 1974, with the encores taken from the Municipal Auditorium, Nashville on 30th November, 1974. The only song missing from the full set on the 20th October performance is ‘Diamond Dogs’ which was unfortunately only recorded in part. To make up for that it was decided to include the encores from the 30th November performance which featured ‘Diamond Dogs’ but also enables a fuller representation of the set from The Soul Tour including such numbers as ‘Knock On Wood’ and the ‘Foot Stomping / I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate’ medley.

The Soul Tour was a radical departure from the first part of the 1974 Diamond Dogs theatrical extravaganza. During a three week break in late 1974, the Diamond Dogs Tour’s elaborate six-ton Hunger City stage set was drastically stripped back, and the tour’s set list overhauled to include as-yet-unreleased tracks from the Young Americans sessions at Sigma Sound in Philadelphia. The Soul Tour also featured a revamped band, augmented to include musicians and vocalists from those sessions, and rechristened The Mike Garson Band.

I’M ONLY DANCING (THE SOUL TOUR 74) follows on from the previous Record Store Day 2 LP release Cracked Actor (Live Los Angeles ’74) and is an incredible historical document of a performer and band at the height of their live powers. The artwork for both the 2 LP and 2 CD releases is based on the original design for the programmes available at venues for dates on The Soul Tour. The Soul Tour has taken on a mythical status among Bowie fans, as the tour visited fewer than twenty cities in the East and South of US. This is the first time that audio from this incarnation of the tour has ever been officially released.

Tracklist:
A1 – Introduction - Memory Of A Free Festival
A2 – Rebel Rebel
A3 – John, I'm Only Dancing (Again)
A4 – Sorrow
A5 – Changes
A6 – 1984
B1 – Moonage Daydream
B2 – Rock 'N' Roll With Me
B3 – Love Me Do / The Jean Genie
B4 – Young Americans
C1 – Can You Hear Me
C2 – It’s Gonna Be Me
C3 – Somebody Up There Likes Me
C4 – Suffragette City
D1 – Rock 'N' Roll Suicide
D2 – Panic In Detroit
D3 – Knock On Wood
D4 – Foot Stompin' / I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate / Foot Stompin'
D5 – Diamond Dogs / It’s Only Rock 'N' Roll (But I Like It) / Diamond Dogs



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