David Bowie Station to Springfield Mass 21st March 1976
Live at the Springfield Civic Centre USA
Setlist
01. Station to Station
02. Suffragette City
03. Fame
04. Word on a Wing
05. Stay
06. Waiting for the Man
07. Queen Bitch
08. Life on Mars
09. Five Years
10. Panic in Detroit
11. Band Intro
12. Changes
13. Rebel Rebel
14. Diamond Dogs
15. TVC15
16. Jean Genie
The Tour Band – The Station To Station Tour
• David Bowie – Vocals, saxophone
• Carlos Alomar – Rhythm guitar, music director,backing vocals
• Stacy Heydon – Lead guitar, backing vocals
• George Murray – Bass guitar, backing vocals
• Dennis Davis – Drums, percussion
• Tony Kaye – Keyboards
The band became known as “Raw Moon”
Crew
• Vern Moose Constan, Rob Joyce – Band technicians/personnel
• Lonnie McKenzie, Leroy Kerr, Lester Burton, Buddy Prewitt, Larry Sizemore – Lighting technicians/personnel
• Buford Jones, Scott Wadsworth – Sound technicians/personnel
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News of the day:
David Bowie rocks Springfield Civic Center hours after his March 21, 1976 arrest in New York
March 21, 1976 did not start off as a particularly great day for David Bowie.
Around 3 a.m., four Rochester, New York, police detectives and a state police officer searched Bowie’s three-room suite at the Americana Rochester Hotel, where they found a little more than six ounces of marijuana. Bowie and pal Iggy Pop, were taken to the Monroe County Jail, booked on fifth-degree criminal possession of marijuana, punishable by up to 15 years in prison, and released at about 7 a.m. on $2,000 bond.
Bowie was to be arraigned the next day, but his lawyer successfully argued for a delay until March 25, noting Bowie would face stiff penalties if he missed the gig at the Springfield Civic Center.
So, a little more than 12 hours after leaving the Monroe County Jail, Bowie was performing before 6,752 fans in the City of Homes.
The concert began with a showing of the 1928 surrealist film “Un Chien Andqalou” (“Mad Dog”) before the music got underway.
Over the course of the next 90 minutes, Bowie, dressed as a dapper man-about-town, treated fans to hits like “Fame,” “Changes” and “Life On Mars.”
No mention was made of the arrest – and a grand jury later chose not to indict Bowie or Pop on drug charges.