David Bowie Concert Comeback May Land, May Never Take Off; Conflicting Reports or Driving Up the Price?
David Bowie's concert comeback may be in the works, or it may not. There are conflicting reports on whether the former Thin White Duke will be taking the stage to promote his new album. David Bowie hasn't played live, publicly, since he paired with Alicia Keys in 2006, although there have been rumors on rumors in the musical community of secret jams.
David Bowie is having resurgence. The spider from Mars recently dropped a new album and held a record-breaking exhibition. Now all he has to do is strap on his guitar and do it live again. David Bowie stopped touring after he had a heart attack on stage in Germany in 2004.
British Tabloid The Mirror is reporting that David Bowie is in the middle of a bidding war from promoters who want him back on stage. Live Nation reportedly offered David Bowie a couple million pounds to play the Olympic Park in East London next year. Live Nation has connections to John Giddings, who runs the musical agency Solo and is David Bowie's tour agent. It is expected that Live Nation's main competitor AEG will also put in a bid for David Bowie shows. The paper speculated that AEG is trying to pull David Bowie for a show at Hyde Park.
David Bowie will celebrate the 50th anniversary of his first single "Liza Jane" next year. Of course at the time he was 17 years old and was still called Davie Jones and he was playing with the King Bees. Davie Jones changed his name to Bowie because there was another British singer actor with the name Davy Jones playing in a band called The Monkees. They were all over the TV and the radio and Bowie, who took his name from the Bowie knife, was going in a different direction.
David Bowie changed that direction and his persona dozens of times in his almost fifty years in music, film, TV and stage.
Earl Slick, David Bowie's guitarist, who also worked with the likes of John Lennon, said there are no plans for a tour before the year is out. But they haven't ruled out a 2004 tour.
In June, Slick said "I get asked all the time. And I say 'Do you know something I don't know?' Really though, there's no big secret we're keeping from everyone. There'll definitely be no shows this year, I can tell you that. As for next year, who knows? There's no conspiracy about a tour now, there just is no tour. As for whether I want him to tour, well, I always want to go out, I love to tour, but I've got my own thing going at the moment too. If he goes out on the road and I get the call, then all well and good. "
When asked about a David Bowie tour, producer and musician Nile Rodgers said Bowie is "full of surprises".
London's V&A Museum recently held a sold out exhibition of David Bowie's possessions. The Exhibition including handwritten lyrics, costumes, fashion, photography, film, music videos, set designs and own instruments.
"The Next Day," David Bowie's latest album, has been selling big and getting great reviews.