Live: Rainbow Theatre, London

David Bowie and the Spiders From Mars performed at London’s Rainbow Theatre on 23 December 1972.

This was the 83rd date of the Ziggy Stardust tour, which had begun on 29 January 1972.

There was a second show at the Rainbow on 24 December. On both nights the support act was Stealers Wheel.

The setlist was the same for both shows:

• ‘Let’s Spend the Night Together’
• ‘Hang On to Yourself’
• ‘Ziggy Stardust’
• ‘Changes’
• ‘The Supermen’
• ‘Life On Mars?’
• ‘Five Years’
• ‘Lady Stardust’
• ‘The Width Of A Circle’
• ‘John, I’m Only Dancing’
• ‘Moonage Daydream’
• ‘The Jean Genie’
• ‘Suffragette City’
• ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide’