David Bowie performed at Pittsburgh’s Benedum Center on 17 May 2004, as part of A Reality Tour.
It was the 93rd 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 had previously played at the Benedum Center during the Ziggy Stardust Tour on 28 November 1972, when it was known as the Stanley Theatre.
The setlist:
- ‘Rebel Rebel’
- ‘New Killer Star’
- ‘Cactus’
- ‘Sister Midnight’
- ‘Hang On To Yourself’
- ‘All The Young Dudes’
- ‘Fame’
- ‘China Girl’
- ‘The Loneliest Guy’
- ‘The Man Who Sold The World’
- ‘Hallo Spaceboy’
- ‘Sunday’
- ‘Heathen (The Rays)’
- ‘Under Pressure’
- ‘Station To Station’
- ‘Ashes To Ashes’
- ‘Quicksand’
- ‘The Supermen’
- ‘Modern Love’
- ‘Pablo Picasso’
- ‘White Light/White Heat’
- ‘I’m Afraid Of Americans’
- “Heroes”
- ‘Five Years’
- ‘Suffragette City’
- ‘Ziggy Stardust’
Last updated: 4 December 2023
Also on this day...
- 1997: Live: Factory Studios, Dublin
- 1983: Rehearsal: Forest National, Brussels
- 1976: Live: Pavilion de Paris, Paris
- 1973: Live: Caird Hall, Dundee
- 1970: Recording, mixing: The Man Who Sold The World
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