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Serious Moonlight Tour Tour byAssociated albumStart date18 May 1983End date8 December 1983Legs8No. Of shows96concert chronology.(1978). Serious Moonlight Tour(1983).(1987)The Serious Moonlight Tour was launched in May 1983 in support of 's album (1983).
The tour opened at the, Brussels, on 18 May 1983 and ended in the on 8 December 1983; 15 countries visited, 96 performances, and over 2.6M tickets sold. The tour garnered mostly favorable reviews from the press.It was, at the time, his longest, largest and most successful concert tour to date, although it has since been surpassed in length, attendance and gross revenue by subsequent Bowie tours. Contents.Development The tour, designed to support Bowie's latest album, was initially designed to be a smaller tour, playing to the likes of sub-10,000-seat indoor venues around the world, similar to previous Bowie tours. However, the success of Let's Dance caused unexpectedly high demand for tickets: there were 250,000 requests for 44,000 tickets at one show, for example, and as a result the tour was changed to instead play in a variety of larger outdoor and festival-style venues.
The largest crowd for a single show during the tour was 80,000 in Auckland, New Zealand, while the largest crowd for a festival date was 300,000 at the in California. The tour sold out at every venue it played. Set design Bowie himself had a hand in the set design for the tour, which included giant columns (affectionately referred to as 'condoms') as well as a large moon and a giant hand. The stage was deliberately given a vertical feeling (especially due to the columns) and an overall design that Bowie called a combination of classicism and modernism.
The weight of one set (of which there were two) was 32 tons. Tour musicians. Earl Slick November 1983 during the Serious Moonlight TourBowie hired mostly musicians he'd used on his previous albums, though some of the musicians from his 1978 tour were re-hired for this tour, including, who was the designated band leader for the tour., who had contributed guitar solos to six of the songs on Let's Dance and who was up and coming, was to join the tour, also to please the American audience.
Vaughan showed up for rehearsals in Dallas in April ( from the rehearsals exist), but Vaughan showed up with a cocaine habit, a hard-partying wife and an entourage looking for easy access to drugs. Given that Bowie himself had moved to Berlin in the late 1970s to try and kick his own cocaine habit, Bowie and Vaughan's management failed to come to an agreement on how to temper the situation, and in the end Vaughan pulled out of the tour. Vaughan was replaced by longtime Bowie guitarist.
Song selection Faced with high demand for tickets for the tour, Bowie decided to play his more recognizable songs from his repertoire, saying a few years later that his goal was to give the fans the songs that they'd heard on the radio over the past 15 years, calling the setlist a collection of songs that the fans 'probably didn't realize when added up are a great body of work'. Bowie and Carlos Alomar selected an initial list of songs for the tour, 35 of which they rehearsed for the tour. One song that was on the rehearsal's song list that never actually got to the rehearsal stage was ', which Bowie had covered in 1975 on his album. The setlist for the tour was the basis for the track list for the 1989 box set. Tour rehearsals Initially the band rehearsed in a studio in Manhattan before moving near for dress rehearsals.Each band member wore a costume which was designed 'down to the smallest detail', as if a character in a play. Two sets of each person's costumes were made and worn on alternate nights, and everyone got to keep one set at the conclusion of the tour as a souvenir. The bands' costumes were a nod, a 'slight parody', on all the New Romantic bands that were growing in popularity at the time.
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That's the single biggest concert ever in the Southern Hemisphere. 1nact, the audience outnumbered the fifth largest city -in New Zealand.References. David Buckley, Strange Fascination: The Definitive Biography of David Bowie, Virgin Books, 1999.
Photographer: Hadfield is pictured on Tuesday photographing Earth in the Cupola with the 'big lens'Like no other astronaut before him, Hadfield has found a way to humanise space travel.He may have piloted a spaceship with a four-second window from failure to death, but it was his cosmic rendition of David Bowie’s Space Oddity that made him a household name back on Earth.The YouTube video, which instantly went viral, came complete with strummed chords, pensive gazes and a floating guitar.The 53-year-old hopes to show that astronauts are just like anybody else. ‘People ask all the time, when will normal people be able to fly in space?’ he says. ‘Like we’re only half-normal, like we weren’t born normal. But we’re just a bunch of people.’At any given time on the ISS, for instance, you can see an astronaut playfully pirouetting or somersaulting through the air. Hadfield says the novelty of zero gravity never got old.
Hadfield was commander of the ISS, a spaceship the size of a football field with more living space than a five bedroom house. Inside, he describes it as an Alice in Wonderland-type world where you have to decide which way will be 'up'While zero gravity on ISS can be entertaining, it can bring with it some unique challenges.
For instance, in his memoirs ‘An astronaut’s guide to life on Earth’, Hadfield describes how even sweat during exercise can pose a problem.‘It just accumulates on your body like a slowly expanding liquid shield,’ he says. ‘If you turn your head quickly, that huge, wet glob of sweat might dislodge, sail across the module and smack an unsuspecting crewmate in the face.’. Chris Hadfield was the first Canadian to walk in space. He recently returned from a five month-stint in on the International Space Station where he served as commanderIncidents like this, combined with the isolation and duration of space flight can lead to tensions boiling over.According to stories of some of the first cosmonauts, there have been fist fights on space stations and astronauts have refused to speak to one another for days on end.That’s why, for Hadfield, comedy is so vital for keeping morale up and conflicts at bay. He says there were many incidents that still make him smile, but one particular moment sticks in his mind. Hadfield took more than 40,000 pictures from space and tweeted hundreds of them. Pictured is the Glacier tongues in the Himalayas taken January 8‘For some reason, one of the crew members decided he should come to dinner dressed as a Hawaiian lady,’ he laughs.
‘He was looking for breasts, and found some pudding cups. He came floating around the corner wearing this getup, singing Hawaiian music.‘Unfortunately he brushed into the hatch and his pudding cups came loose. They were all akimbo. He was willing to absolutely mock himself to better the emotional state and psychology of the group. We did things in that vein all the time.’For someone revered as extraordinary, it’s in the ordinary and every day that Hadfield often draws inspiration.
‘A beautiful insight can come from an unexpected quarter,’ he said.‘A good example is Britain’s Got Talent, where you have some person that, if you stood next to on a bus, you would have absolutely no idea that they have some sort of skill that would absolutely floor you. I try to find within each person the stuff that is definitely worth trying model after. The down-to-Earth spaceman recalls his Auntie Florence as one unlikely inspiration. ‘I’ve never talked about Auntie Flo before, and it’s never occurred to me really, but she was a lady I greatly respected. She was from Yorkshire and her first husband was killed in the First World War, so she was a very young widow.‘She married again, and her second husband died early as well. She spent most of her life alone, and not a glorious existence at all.
I hope I can have the strength and the patience to face through life with the depth that Auntie Flo did.’Hadfield is now back on Earth, adjusting to life without floating tortillas, death-defying spacewalks and cross-dressing astronauts. He describes life in space as being 'one of the very rare experiences in life that is better than you dreamed it would be.' But unlike many before him, he has found the transition relatively painless.
Hadfield says being in space gave him a new insight into life back on Earth. And he isn’t sad to have left.‘I’m absolutely the opposite,’ he says.
‘It’s as if you said “you must be so sad that you had chocolate cake 15 years ago”. Well, no, I’m still alive and because I had the best cake 15 years ago, it doesn’t mean that everything else tastes bad all of a sudden.' November 1995Hadfield served as Mission Specialist 1 on STS-74, NASA's second space shuttle mission to rendezvous and dock with the Russian Space Station Mir. During the flight, the crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis attached a five-tonne docking module to Mir and transferred over 1,000 kg of food, water, and scientific supplies to the cosmonauts.April 2001Hadfield served as Mission Specialist 1 on STS-100 ISS assembly Flight 6A.
During the 11-day flight, Hadfield performed two spacewalks, which made him the first Canadian to ever leave a spacecraft and float freely in space. In total, Hadfield spent 14 hours, 54 minutes outside, travelling 10 times around the world.From 2008-09Hadfield served as the backup for Dr Bob Thirsk for Expedition 20/21, a long-duration spaceflight, training to live and work on board the ISS for a period up to six months. After this assignment, he supported the ISS Operations Branch and developed Emergency procedures for the ISS.May 2010Hadfield was the Commander of NEEMO 14, a Nasa undersea mission to test exploration concepts living in an underwater facility off the Florida coast. NEEMO 14 used the ocean floor to simulate exploration missions to the surface of asteroids, moons and Mars.June 2010Hadfield was part of the Pavilion Lake research team, located 420km northeast of Vancouver.
Pavilion Lake is one of the few places on Earth where microbialites are found. The team used a combination of remotely operated vehicles, autonomous underwater vehicles, SCUBA divers and DeepWorker submersibles to help understand and identify potential forms of extraterrestrial life on future missions to Mars.September 2010Chris Hadfield was assigned to Expedition 34/35. On December 19, 2012 he launched aboard the Russian Soyuz, en route to becoming the second Canadian to take part in a long-duration spaceflight aboard the ISS.
On March 13, 2013 he became the first Canadian to command a spaceship as Commander of the ISS during the second portion of his five-month stay in space. On May 13, Hadfield, Tom Marshburn and Roman Romanenko landed in Kazakhstan after travelling almost 99.8 million kilometres while completing 2,336 orbits of Earth. The trio spent 146 days in space, 144 of which were aboard the station.