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David Live [2CD]

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David Live catches Bowie mid-transformation, shedding the Ziggy skin on the 1974 Diamond Dogs tour, and this remastered 2CD edition puts the whole wild show in your hands.

Recorded across several nights in July 1974 at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia, it was his first official live album, issued later the same year. The tour itself was a huge theatrical production, but the music on these discs points somewhere else entirely, toward the soul and funk sounds he was about to explore on Young Americans.

That shift is the reason this album still fascinates. "Rebel Rebel" loses some of its glam crunch and gains a slinky groove, while "All the Young Dudes" is reworked into something smoky and soulful. Eddie Floyd's "Knock on Wood" turns up as a sweaty, horn-driven cover, a clear sign of where his head was at. Then "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" closes the night as a full-blooded torch song, Bowie pouring everything into the final lines.

The band is tight and busy, with saxophone and backing vocals pushing the arrangements far from their studio shapes.

It's a record of an artist changing in public, and it sounds like nothing else in his catalogue. Fans of the Philly soul years should start right here.

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