David Bowie performed at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on 31 October 1995. It was the 27th date of the Outside Tour.
It was the 27th date of the tour, which began on 14 September in Hartford, USA.
Bowie’s guitarists were Carlos Alomar and Reeves Gabrels. Mike Garson played piano and keyboards, Gail Ann Dorsey was on bass guitar, and Zack Alford was on drums. Peter Schwartz played synthesizer and was the musical director, and George Simms was on backing vocals and keyboards.
The US leg of the Outside Tour was supported by Nine Inch Nails, as part of their Self Destruct Tour. NIN’s set segued with Bowie’s, with both acts performing several songs together before Bowie continued. This Bowie’s final show with them.
Bowie had performed at the Hollywood Palladium on two previous occasions. The first was on 12 March 1973, the final US date of the Ziggy Stardust Tour.
He returned there with Tin Machine on 12 December 1991 during their It’s My Life Tour.
The setlist
- ‘Thru’ These Architects Eyes’
- ‘Joe The Lion’
- ‘Look Back In Anger’
- ‘The Hearts Filthy Lesson’
- ‘Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)’
- ‘The Voyeur Of Utter Destruction (As Beauty)’
- ‘I Have Not Been To Oxford Town’
- ‘Outside’
- ‘Andy Warhol’
- ‘The Man Who Sold The World’
- ‘A Small Plot Of Land’
- ‘Strangers When We Meet’
- ‘I’m Deranged’
- ‘Breaking Glass’
- ‘We Prick You’
- ‘My Death’
- ‘Nite Flights’
- ‘Teenage Wildlife’
- ‘Hallo Spaceboy’
- ‘Under Pressure’
Also on this day...
- 2003: Live: Kölnarena, Cologne
- 1997: Live: Close Up Planet Festival, Curitiba
- 1991: Live: Tin Machine, Ancienne Belgique, Brussels
- 1983: Live: Furitsu Taiikukan, Kyoto, Japan
- 1974: Live: Radio City Music Hall, New York
- 1969: Live: Aurora Hotel, Gillingham
- 1969: Live: General Gordon, Gravesend
- 1968: Filming: The Virgin Soldiers
- 1965: Live: David Bowie and the Lower Third, Birdcage, Portsmouth
- 1964: Live: Davie Jones and the Manish Boys, Justin Hall, West Wickham, Bromley
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