David Bowie ?– The Missing Link [Shelter Records 252570] RARE

	£		21
	$		28

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As I have valued customers contacting me that they are missing out on sales (I tend to list early morning and some are sold very quickly) I have decided to pre-list the next few items. It takes me considerable time to photograph and edit and rip a copy for NAS storage so this will follow. Any pictures at this stage are courtesy of Discogs and are not the actual item. The 'Condition Description' and 'Price' are representative of the actual item.

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Side A: London, Wembley Arena 13.07.85            

Bowie hadn't promoted his 1984 LP Tonight with a tour, so Live Aid marked his first performance since the end of the Serious Moonlight tour over a year and a half earlier. Bowie had the unenviable task of following Queen, but when he burst onto the stage at Wembley in his Young Americans suit, it was clear he was more than ready for the challenge. Playing with a new, young band (whose members included Thomas "She Blinded Me With Science" Dolby on keyboards), they opened with the Station to Station classic "TVC 15" before ripping into "Rebel Rebel," "Modern Love" and a truly stellar rendition of "Heroes" to wrap it up. The show could have been a rare opportunity to actually play "Under Pressure" with Queen, but sadly that didn't happen.

The Live Aid set was arguably Bowie's last triumph of the 1980s. His 1987 album Never Let Me Down was shredded by the critics, and the supporting Glass Spider tour was largely panned as well. He finished out the decade by putting together the Pixies-inspired group Tin Machine and playing small venues with them around the world. The band was a deliberate attempt to scale back the David Bowie machine, but most people greeted it with befuddlement and raging disinterest. But as approximately two billion people sang along to "Heroes" during his Live Aid set in the summer of '85, he still seemed like one of the biggest and most vital rock stars in the world.

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