The Young American
U.S. Tour 4 - July Concerts
1 JULY 1974 - ATLANTA, FOX THEATRE
Audio Recording
At some point between the Detroit show and this one, "Drive-In Saturday" had been
dropped from the set:
1984; Rebel Rebel; Moonage Daydream; Sweet Thing / Candidate / Sweet Thing
(Reprise); Changes; Suffragette City; Aladdin Sane; All The Young Dudes; Cracked
Actor; Rock'n'Roll With Me; Watch That Man; Space Oddity; Future Legend / Diamond
Dogs; Panic In Detroit; Big Brother / Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family; Time;
Width Of A Circle; The Jean Genie; Rock’n’Roll Suicide.
3 JULY 1974 - CASSELBERRY, SEMINOLE JAI-ALAI FRONTON
Listed on MainMan Newsletter #19 dated 16/04/74 as West Palm Beach, Auditorium.
5 JULY 1974 - CHARLOTTE, PARK CENTER
Listed on MainMan Newsletter #19 dated 16/04/74 as being Charleston, Municipal Auditorium.
8 JULY 1974 - PHILADELPHIA, TOWER THEATRE
11 JULY 1974 - PHILADELPHIA, TOWER THEATRE
12 JULY 1974 - PHILADELPHIA, TOWER THEATRE
This was the first of two shows recorded for the ‘David Live’ album.
13 JULY 1974 (EVENING) - PHILADELPHIA, TOWER THEATRE
17 JULY 1974 - CAPE COD, COLISEUM
19 JULY 1974 - NEW YORK, MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
2 JULY 1974 - TAMPA, CURTIS HIXON HALL
The show opened with the following announcement
- "Good evening. Good evening ladies and
gentlemen. The concert you're going to see tonight
is not the show we had planned for you. Due to an
unfortunate road accident, half of our stage
scenery, costumes, lighting equipment is in a local
swamp fifteen miles north of here. There was talk of
cancelling tonight's performance but David Bowie
would not hear of it and insisted we go on in the
remaining half condition. So, in a few minutes we'll
go on with the concert - thank you.”
As reported in Circus Raves (November 1974)…
“In one Florida town, Tampa, however, the troupe
was forced to perform without their sets – since a
bee’s untimely attack on the truck driver sent their
props barrelling into a snake-infested swamp.
Nonetheless, from all reports, including David’s
own excited version, the show was exhilarating,
and the ovation, thunderous. David performed his
only encore of the tour there.”
4 JULY 1974 - JACKSONVILLE, EXHIBITION HALL
Show cancelled.
Courtesy of Hunter Desportes
6 JULY 1974 - GREENSBORO, COLISEUM
Listed on MainMan Newsletter #19 dated 16/04/74 as being
Charlotte, Park Center.
9 JULY 1974 - PHILADELPHIA, TOWER THEATRE
10 JULY 1974 - PHILADELPHIA, TOWER THEATRE
13 JULY 1974 (MATINEE) - PHILADELPHIA, TOWER THEATRE
This performance was cancelled at short notice because nobody had told David himself. The story is detailed in Circus Raves November
1974.
14 JULY 1974 - NEW HAVEN, VETERANS MEMORIAL COLISEUM
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15 JULY 1974 - WATERBURY, PALACE THEATRE
16 JULY 1974 - BOSTON, MUSIC HALL
Reviews
The Boston Globe 18/07/74.
A special programme was printed for the shows at Madison Square Garden on July 19 and 20. It is a single sheet folded in half and lists the
tour personnel inside. It was given away free.
20 JULY 1974 - NEW YORK, MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
Audio Recording
1984; Rebel Rebel; Moonage Daydream; Sweet Thing / Candidate / Sweet Thing (Reprise); Changes; Suffragette City; Aladdin Sane; All The
Young Dudes; Cracked Actor; Rock'n'Roll With Me; Watch That Man; Space Oddity; Diamond Dogs; Panic In Detroit; Big Brother / Chant Of
The Ever Circling Skeletal Family; Time; Width Of A Circle; The Jean Genie; Rock’n’Roll Suicide.
7 JULY 1974 - NORFOLK, SCOPE CONVENTION CENTRE
Audio Recording
1984; Rebel Rebel; Moonage Daydream; Sweet Thing / Candidate / Sweet Thing (Reprise); Changes;
Suffragette City; Aladdin Sane; All The Young Dudes; Cracked Actor; Rock'n'Roll With Me; Watch That
Man; Space Oddity; Future Legend / Diamond Dogs; Panic In Detroit; Big Brother / Chant Of The Ever
Circling Skeletal Family; Time; Width Of A Circle; The Jean Genie.
Video recording
A video recording from one of the Philadelphia shows - believed to be this one - exists but is not in general circulation.
Listed on MainMan Newsletter #19 dated 16/04/74 as being Cape Cod, Coliseum.
This was the second show recorded for the ‘David Live’ album.
Listed on MainMan Newsletter #19 dated 16/04/74 as being Providence, Palace Theatre.
Audio Recording
1984; Rebel Rebel; Moonage Daydream; Sweet Thing / Candidate / Sweet Thing (Reprise); Changes;
Suffragette City; Aladdin Sane; All The Young Dudes; Cracked Actor; Rock'n'Roll With Me; Watch That
Man; Future Legend / Diamond Dogs; Panic In Detroit; Big Brother / Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal
Family; Time; Width Of A Circle; The Jean Genie; Rock’n’Roll Suicide.
Video recording
Rebel Rebel; Sweet Thing; Suffragette City; Aladdin Sane; All The Young Dudes; Rock'n'Roll With Me; Panic In Detroit; Big Brother; Time;
Width Of A Circle; and Rock’n’Roll Suicide.
Cancelled.
Audio Recording
1984; Rebel Rebel; Moonage Daydream; Sweet Thing / Candidate / Sweet Thing (Reprise); Changes;
Suffragette City; Aladdin Sane; All The Young Dudes; Cracked Actor; Rock'n'Roll With Me; Watch That Man;
Knock On Wood; Space Oddity; Future Legend / Diamond Dogs; Panic In Detroit; Big Brother / Chant Of The
Ever Circling Skeletal Family; Time; Width Of A Circle; The Jean Genie; Rock’n’Roll Suicide.
Listed on MainMan Newsletter #19 dated 16/04/74 as being Hartford,
Bushnell Auditorium but neither show actually took place.
Listed on MainMan Newsletter #19 dated 16/04/74 as being New York,
Radio City Music Hall.
Courtesy of Mark Russell
Listed on MainMan Newsletter #19 dated 16/04/74 as being New York, Radio City
Music Hall.
Audio Recording
1984; Rebel Rebel; Moonage Daydream; Sweet Thing / Candidate / Sweet Thing
(Reprise); Changes; Suffragette City; Aladdin Sane; All The Young Dudes;
Cracked Actor; Rock'n'Roll With Me; Watch That Man; Knock On Wood; Space
Oddity; Future Legend / Diamond Dogs; Panic In Detroit; Big Brother / Chant Of
The Ever Circling Skeletal Family; Time; Width Of A Circle.
Reviews
New York Daily News 22/07/74; Variety 24/07/74; The Village Voice 25/07/74;
New York Daily News 28/07/74;
NME (UK) 27/07/74.
