• Glass Spider is a concert film by English singer David Bowie. The release was sourced from eight shows during the first two weeks of November 1987 at the...
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  • The Glass Spider Tour was a 1987 worldwide concert tour by the English musician David Bowie, launched in support of his album Never Let Me Down and named...
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  • studio recording), while the Glass Spider live album had been previously included with the 2007 DVD release of the Glass Spider concert film. The box set...
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    calling it "an awful album". He supported the album on the 86-concert Glass Spider Tour. The backing band included Peter Frampton on lead guitar. Contemporary...
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    "Abdulmajid" after her, which was later converted into a symphony by Philip Glass. On 24 April 1992, Iman married Bowie in a private ceremony in Lausanne...
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    David Bowie, and she was hired for the Glass Spider Tour in 1987. She appeared on the 1988 concert video Glass Spider, which captured performances from that...
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    as herself in the D.A. Pennebaker concert film Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1973) and Glitter Goddess of Sunset Strip (1991). She also has...
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  • most criticising the "overblown" production. Bowie supported it on the Glass Spider Tour, a world tour that was at that point the biggest, most theatrical...
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    Reason Tour Michael Jackson on the Bad world tour David Bowie on the Glass Spider Tour The Rolling Stones on the Voodoo Lounge Tour U2 on the PopMart Tour...
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    a song "Glass Spider" which would later serve as the name for his Glass Spider Tour. Previously Bowie had a backing band known as The Spiders from Mars...
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    Light. She choreographed David Bowie's Diamond Dogs Tour in 1974, his Glass Spider Tour in 1987, and his video for "Time Will Crawl" (1987). She has worked...
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  • Moonlight (1983) and Glass Spider (1987) tours' statistics by visiting 27 countries with 108 performances. Bowie's previous Glass Spider Tour and two most...
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    Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that...
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    1987 album Never Let Me Down and sang and played on the accompanying Glass Spider Tour. Frampton would, in 2013, credit his participation in this tour...
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    occasional opening act for David Bowie on his Glass Spider Tour in 1987, and appears on the Glass Spider video playing guitar on The Stooges' "I Wanna...
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    videos The 1980 Floor Show Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Serious Moonlight Glass Spider Tin Machine Live: Oy Vey, Baby VH1 Storytellers Reality:...
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  • Dogs Tour, and would work on Bowie's next touring set as well, the 1987 Glass Spider Tour. The Serious Moonlight stage was deliberately given a vertical feeling...
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  • subsequent Glass Spider and Sound+Vision tours of 1987 and 1990. He performed it occasionally during his 2003–04 A Reality Tour. To promote the Glass Spider Tour...
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    release. Glass Spider 1987 1988 Concert film — 1988 (ABC special, David Bowie: Glass Spider Tour; short 50 min version) 1988 2001 (as Glass Spider Tour);...
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    such as "Glass Spider" (from the 1987 album Never Let Me Down), as well as the 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars...
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    between them which prevent the glass from breaking into large sharp pieces. Breaking produces a characteristic "spider web" cracking pattern (radial and...
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  • Billboard Hot 100. Bowie performed "Absolute Beginners" live on his 1987 Glass Spider Tour, his 2000 "Mini" Tour, and his 2002 Heathen Tour. The song has been...
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    director/rhythm guitarist for Bowie's infamous and highly theatrical Glass Spider Tour in 1987 (beginning every show with a frenzied guitar solo), but...
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  • videos The 1980 Floor Show Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Serious Moonlight Glass Spider Tin Machine Live: Oy Vey, Baby VH1 Storytellers Reality:...
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  • career. The 1987 Bowie album Never Let Me Down (1987) and subsequent Glass Spider Tour had left critics unimpressed, and Bowie was aware of his low standing...
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  • Bowie on the Glass Spider Tour in 1987 in support of Never Let Me Down, a live recording of which was released in 1988 as Glass Spider. In 1988, Kızılçay...
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    Steps and Toni Basil. Basil hired him for David Bowie's world stadium Glass Spider Tour after she spotted him performing in a LA nightclub in 1987.[citation...
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  • 1987 and looked to reinvent himself. After meeting Gabrels through his Glass Spider Tour, the two agreed to work together and would collaborate frequently...
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  • Looking Glass was released on 2 March 1987 on Polydor. A few weeks after, Bowie contacted them to be the special guests at two shows on his Glass Spider Tour...
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  • videos The 1980 Floor Show Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Serious Moonlight Glass Spider Tin Machine Live: Oy Vey, Baby VH1 Storytellers Reality:...
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