David Bowie performed at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre on 25 January 2004 during A Reality Tour.
It was the 45th date of the tour, which began on 7 October 2003 in Copenhagen.
Earl Slick and Gerry Leonard played guitar, Gail Ann Dorsey was on bass guitar and vocals, and Mike Garson played keyboards and piano. Sterling Campbell was on drums, and Catherine Russell played keyboards, percussion, guitar and sang backing vocals.
Bowie performed at the Paramount Theatre on four other occasions. The first was on 1 November 1972 during the Ziggy Stardust Tour.
His second show there was on 9 April 1977, when he played keyboards on Iggy Pop’s Lust For Life Tour. The third was on 20 December 1991 during Tin Machine’s It’s My Life Tour.
He performed there for a fourth time on 7 September 1997, as part of his Earthling Tour.
The setlist
- ‘Rebel Rebel’
- ‘New Killer Star’
- ‘Reality’
- ‘Fame’
- ‘Cactus’
- ‘All The Young Dudes’
- ‘China Girl’
- ‘I’ve Been Waiting For You’
- ‘Days’
- ‘A New Career In A New Town’
- ‘Breaking Glass’
- ‘Be My Wife’
- ‘Always Crashing In The Same Car’
- ‘Hallo Spaceboy’
- ‘Sunday’
- ‘Under Pressure’
- ‘Life On Mars?’
- ‘Panic In Detroit’
- ‘Ashes To Ashes’
- ‘White Light/White Heat’
- ‘I’m Afraid Of Americans’
- “Heroes”
- ‘Five Years’
- ‘Suffragette City’
- ‘Ziggy Stardust’
Also on this day...
- 2010: Album release: A Reality Tour
- 1996: Live: Alsterdorfer Sporthalle, Hamburg
- 1973: Travel: Southampton to New York
- 1971: Travel: Washington to Philadelphia
- 1970: Live: Three Tuns, Beckenham
- 1969: Recording: Sell Me A Coat
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