Live: Furitsu Taiikukaikan, Osaka

David Bowie performed at the Furitsu Taiikukaikan in Osaka, Japan, on 26 October 1983, as part of the Serious Moonlight Tour.

It was the 79th date of the tour, which began on 18 May in Brussels, and the first of two consecutive nights at Osaka’s Prefectural Gymnasium.

Bowie’s guitarists were Carlos Alomar and Earl Slick. Dave Lebolt was on keyboards and synthesizers, and Steve Elson, Stan Harrison, Lenny Pickett played saxophones. Carmine Rojas played bass guitar and Tony Thompson was on drums and percussion. George and Frank Simms were the backing singers.

The setlist

• ‘Look Back In Anger’
• “Heroes”
• ‘What In The World’
• ‘Golden Years’
• ‘Fashion’
• ‘Let’s Dance’
• ‘Life On Mars?’
• ‘Sorrow’
• ‘Cat People (Putting Out Fire)’
• ‘China Girl’
• ‘Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)’
• ‘Rebel Rebel’
• ‘White Light/White Heat’
• ‘Station To Station’
• ‘Cracked Actor’
• ‘Ashes To Ashes’
• ‘Space Oddity’
• ‘Young Americans’
• ‘Fame’
• ‘Stay’
• ‘The Jean Genie’
• ‘Modern Love’