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The Commercial Appeal - 1 July 1974 |
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Bowie Show Borders
on the Unbelievable Strangely,
uniquely and loudly, David Bowie was back for a third time to woo Memphis
last night, and with the vigor of a bellowing bull, Memphis was back to woo
him. Bowie promised a
new show, and the show he gave to about 9,000 people at the Mid-South
Coliseum was not only new, but bordered on the brink of being unbelievable. That is not
saying the show was good, just unbelievable. His singing has not improved,
and he still likes to drown sanity with sound. It's when he sings to a
telephone in a suspended chair 20 feet above an inviting crowd or when he
strokes the thumb of a six-foot hand bedecked with blinking lights that the
entertained know it is no run-of-the-mill rock show. When Bowie hits the stage with his affectionate group of men there is an air of accepting the unacceptable. What other entertainer has been cheered as he sparks with his male co-stars? Even the dark-tanned girl with the purple hair who sat waving her feather fan in the back row seemed in place. |
Bowie has taken
what made the bearded lady famous and New Orleans' Bourbon Street
entertaining and is making a fortune out of it. He has taken the unexpected,
the heard-about but rarely seen and a pinch of actual professionalism to net
his profits. A sellout last night, the show grossed about $60,094. Part of the new
come-on, however, is Bowie himself. Last night, with the atmosphere two bumps
and grind short of a nightmare, Bowie wasn't the floral painted wild man he
has been in other shows. This time he let the mechanics handle the wildness
and he handled the noise. Together they give one something to think about. MARK HANNA |
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