David Bowie’s Reality Tour travelled the world in 2003 and 2004.  A DVD was shot in Dublin over the course of November 22nd and 23rd 2003.  This dvd has been available since October of 2004.  But since Bowie is now pretty much retired after suffering a heart attack during the Reality Tour (his final tour to date) they just recently released a CD version as well as digital versions.

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This newly released audio only version includes 3 additional songs: Fall Dogs Bomb The Moon, Breaking Glass, and China Girl.  I personally attended The Reality Tour when it hit NYC and can tell you that it was a great show.  The set is both a compilation of greatest hits with a bunch of new songs from the new Reality album.  Reality unfortunately wasn’t a huge hit.  I still defend it though as it has some pretty good songs on it.  But even if you skip over those you still have a live show featuring tons of great classic material for a pretty good price.

 

There are many great performances here but one of the highlights for me personally is how he opens the classic Heroes with the dialogue from Moulin Rouge that led into it in the movie.  You can actually watch a video of the whole song for free over on Amazon. Other highlights are hearing the audience sing along with Life On Mars and Bowie’s wonderful cover of The Pixies Cactus.  One of the highlights of all of the latter year Bowie shows was Under Pressure performed with Freddy Mercury’s vocal parts being done by incredible bassist Gail Ann Dorsey.  Also on Amazon you can download Heathen (The Rays) from this set for free.

 

This really is a wonderful release and I highly suggest you pick it up.  It’s also available on of course. And the DVD version is available via Amazon as well.