Live: Shinjuku Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan, Tokyo

David Bowie and the Spiders From Mars performed at the Shinjuku Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan (東京厚生年金会館) in Tokyo, Japan, on 11 April 1973.

It was the 105th date of the Ziggy Stardust Tour, which had begun on 29 January 1972.

We were faced with an audience that we presumed didn’t understand a word of what I was saying. There I was more physical than on any other tour that I’ve ever done. Literally, I activated the whole thing with my hands and my body. I needn’t have sung half the time. The Japanese are theatrical and far more aware than either England or America.

This was the third Japanese date of the tour, and the last of three shows at the Shinjuku Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan. The others were on 8 and 10 April 1973.

The setlist

• ‘Hang On to Yourself’
• ‘Ziggy Stardust’
• ‘Changes’
• ‘Moonage Daydream’
• ‘John, I’m Only Dancing’
• ‘Watch That Man’
• ‘The Width Of A Circle’
• ‘Space Oddity’
• ‘Let’s Spend The Night Together’
• ‘Time’
• ‘Five Years’
• ‘The Jean Genie’
• ‘Suffragette City’
• ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide’