Santa Monica '72

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Santa Monica '72
Santa Monica '72 cover
Live album by David Bowie
Released May 1994 (UK)
March 1995 (US)
Recorded 20 October 1972
Genre Glam rock
Length 76:29
Label Golden Years (UK)
Griffin Music (US)
Professional reviews
David Bowie chronology
The Singles Collection
(1993)		 Santa Monica '72
(1994)		 RarestOneBowie
(1995)


Alternate cover
Limited Edition box set
Limited Edition box set
Alternate cover
Wooden box release
Wooden box release

Santa Monica '72 is a live album by David Bowie, recorded at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on 20 October 1972 during the Ziggy Stardust tour. Taken from an FM radio broadcast,[1] it was available only as a bootleg for more than 20 years; according to author David Buckley, possessing a copy was the test of a "proper Bowie fan".[2] The recording was issued officially by the Golden Years label in 1994, with Griffin Music handling the American release in 1995.

This live album features a quite different setlist to the one found on Ziggy Stardust - The Motion Picture (1983), which was recorded nine months afterwards and similarly bootlegged prior to its belated official release. The Santa Monica recording is generally considered a superior representation of the Ziggy Stardust concerts in terms of both sound quality and standard of playing.[3] In 1981, NME critics Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray called it not simply "the performer's best ever bootleg", but "far superior to either of Bowie's official location recordings" to that date, David Live (1974) and Stage (1978).[1]

An Au20 gold disc edition with the DJ's closing remarks at the end was made available in Holland, while in the U.S. a special limited box set was released that included a t-shirt, a key chain and a short video. The video was not actually from the Santa Monica show, but was previously unseen footage from a silent colour film made at a concert in Dunstable, England on 21 June 1972. The video was combined with the live audio recording from the Santa Monica concert. This box was limited to only 1000 copies. In addition, an even more limited edition was released as a small wooden box with Bowie's image carved into the lid, and a brass plate indicating the series number. Only 250 copies were made.[3][4]

Contents

All songs written by David Bowie except where noted.

  1. "Intro" – 0:15
  2. "Hang on to Yourself" – 2:47
  3. "Ziggy Stardust" – 3:24
  4. "Changes" – 3:32
  5. "The Supermen" – 2:57
  6. "Life on Mars?" – 3:28
  7. "Five Years" – 5:21
  8. "Space Oddity" – 5:22
  9. "Andy Warhol" – 3:58
  10. "My Death" (Jacques Brel) – 5:56
  11. "The Width of a Circle" – 10:39
  12. "Queen Bitch" – 3:01
  13. "Moonage Daydream" – 4:38
  14. "John, I'm Only Dancing" – 3:36
  15. "Waiting for the Man" (Lou Reed) – 6:01
  16. "The Jean Genie" – 4:02
  17. "Suffragette City" – 4:25
  18. "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" – 3:17

  • In Belgium the album was released with the DJ's closing remarks as Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars "Live" in 1995.
  • In Japan the album was released without the intro or the outro as Live 1972 in 1997.

  1. ^ a b Roy Carr & Charles Shaar Murray (1981). Bowie: An Illustrated Record: p.116
  2. ^ David Buckley (1999). Strange Fascination - David Bowie: The Definitive Story: p.359
  3. ^ a b Nicholas Pegg (2000). The Complete David Bowie: p.338
  4. ^ Illustrated db Discography
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Discography
Studio albums
David Bowie | Space Oddity | The Man Who Sold the World | Hunky Dory | The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars | Aladdin Sane | Pin Ups | Diamond Dogs | Young Americans | Station to Station | Low | "Heroes" | Lodger | Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) | Let's Dance | Tonight | Never Let Me Down | Black Tie White Noise | Outside | Earthling | 'hours...' | Heathen | Reality
With Tin Machine
Tin Machine | Tin Machine II
Live albums
David Live | Stage | Ziggy Stardust - The Motion Picture | Tin Machine Live: Oy Vey, Baby | Santa Monica '72 | Bowie at the Beeb | LiveAndWell.com
Soundtracks
Christiane F. | Labyrinth | The Buddha of Suburbia | Lost Highway
Related articles
Tony Visconti | Brian Eno | Mick Ronson | Iggy Pop | Mike Garson | Reeves Gabrels
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