The Young American
U.S. Tour 4 - June Concerts
8 JUNE 1974 - PORT CHESTER, CAPITOL THEATRE (REHEARSALS)
Audio Recording
The earliest audio recording from the period is from the final tour rehearsals staged at the Port Chester Capitol Theatre and originates from a video recording:
Moonage Daydream; Sweet Thing / Candidate / Sweet Thing (Reprise); Changes; Suffragette City; Aladdin Sane; All The Young Dudes; Diamond Dogs;
Panic In Detroit; Big Brother; Time; The Jean Genie.
14 JUNE 1974 - MONTREAL, FORUM
Video Recording
Although no audio recording is thought to exist of the opening show of the Diamond Dogs Tour, a short piece of video does which has
been converted from silent 8mm film - 1984; Moonage Daydream; Sweet Thing; Space Oddity; Time.
16 JUNE 1974 (EARLY EVE) - TORONTO, O’KEEFE
CENTRE
Audio Recording
1984; Moonage Daydream; Sweet Thing / Candidate / Sweet
Thing (Reprise); Changes; Suffragette City; Aladdin Sane; All
The Young Dudes; Cracked Actor; Rock'n'Roll With Me; Watch
That Man; Drive-In Saturday; Space Oddity; Future Legend /
Diamond Dogs; Panic In Detroit; Big Brother / Chant Of The
Ever Circling Skeletal Family; Time; Width Of A Circle; The
Jean Genie.
16 JUNE 1974 (LATE EVE) - TORONTO, O’KEEFE CENTRE
Before the concert begins an announcement is made that David is suffering from laryngitis but has insisted that
the show goes on.
Audio Recording
1984; Rebel Rebel; Moonage Daydream; Sweet Thing / Candidate / Sweet Thing (Reprise); Changes;
Suffragette City; Aladdin Sane; All The Young Dudes; Cracked Actor; Rock'n'Roll With Me; Watch That Man;
Drive-In Saturday; Space Oddity; Future Legend / Diamond Dogs; Panic In Detroit; Big Brother / Chant Of The
Ever Circling Skeletal Family; Time; Width Of A Circle; The Jean Genie.
17 JUNE 1974 - ROCHESTER, COMMUNITY WAR MEMORIAL
Audio Recording
1984; Rebel Rebel; Moonage Daydream; Sweet Thing / Candidate / Sweet Thing (Reprise); Changes; Suffragette City; Aladdin Sane;
All The Young Dudes;
Cracked Actor; Rock'n'Roll With Me; Watch That Man; Drive-In Saturday; Space Oddity; Future Legend / Diamond Dogs; Panic In
Detroit; Big Brother / Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family; Time; Width Of A Circle; The Jean Genie.
Reviews
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle 18/06/74.
18 JUNE 1974 - CLEVELAND, PUBLIC AUDITORIUM
19 JUNE 1974 - CLEVELAND, PUBLIC AUDITORIUM
Audio Recording
1984; Rebel Rebel; Moonage Daydream; Sweet Thing / Candidate / Sweet Thing (Reprise);
Changes; Suffragette City; Aladdin Sane; All The Young Dudes; Cracked Actor; Rock'n'Roll With
Me; Watch That Man; Drive-In Saturday; Space Oddity; Diamond Dogs; Panic In Detroit; Big
Brother / Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family; Time; Width Of A Circle; The Jean Genie;
Rock’n’Roll Suicide.
20 JUNE 1974 - TOLEDO, SPORTS ARENA
The press reported that David had to be given oxygen during the interval after he collapsed on stage. The
temperature at the time was believed to be 130 degrees.
Reviews
The Blade 21/06/74.
21 JUNE 1974 - DETROIT, FORD AUDITORIUM
Listed on MainMan Newsletter #19 dated 16/04/74 as a scheduled concert date, but the show never took place.
22 JUNE 1974 - DETROIT, FORD AUDITORIUM
23 JUNE 1974 - DETROIT, COBO ARENA
This concert date appeared in some listings as being scheduled for Columbus, Merton Auditorium.
Audio Recording
1984; Rebel Rebel; Moonage Daydream; Sweet Thing / Candidate / Sweet Thing (Reprise); Changes; Suffragette City; Aladdin Sane;
All The Young Dudes; Cracked Actor; Rock'n'Roll With Me; Watch That Man; Drive-In Saturday; Space Oddity; Future Legend / Diamond
Dogs; Panic In Detroit; Big Brother / Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family; Time; Width Of A Circle; The Jean Genie; Rock’n’Roll
Suicide.
24 JUNE 1974 - DAYTON, HARA ARENA
25 JUNE 1974 - CINCINNATI, CINCINNATI GARDENS
Listed on MainMan Newsletter #19 dated 16/04/74 as being Akron Civic Theatre but neither show took
place.
The Cincinnati concert was still being promoted in The Republic (Columbus) on 22/06/74. However, the
Cincinatti Enquirer 23/06/74 reported that the show was cancelled due to poor ticket sales.
28 JUNE 1974 - CHARLESTON, CIVIC CENTER
29 JUNE 1974 - NASHVILLE, MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM
30 JUNE 1974 - MEMPHIS, MID-SOUTH COLISEUM
Reviews
Toronto Globe Mail 17/06/74; Edmonton Journal 29/06/74; Rolling Stone 18/07/74; Hit Parader December 1974;
Melody Maker (UK) 22/06/74; NME (UK) 29/06/74.
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Reviews
Montreal Star 15/06/74; Red Deer Advocate 17/06/74; Montreal Gazette 17/06/74; Calgary Herald 18/06/74; Performance 28/06/74;
NME (UK) 22/06/74; Sounds (UK) 29/06/74; Disc (UK) 06/07/74.
Video Recording
Rebel Rebel; Moonage Daydream; Changes; Suffragette City;
Panic In Detroit.
Reviews
Toronto Star 17/06/74.
This concert date was due to be played but
was cancelled at short notice due to
insufficient time being available on the day to
set up the stage.
Leee Black Childers - the MainMan
photographer - documented this particular
episode in Hit Parader December 1974: On
Tour With Bowie.
Reviews
The Windsor Star 24/06/74.
Reviews
The Commercial Appeal 01/07/74.
Courtesy of Tim Zane
New Musical Express (UK) 22 June 1974
Melody Maker (UK) 22 June 1974
New Musical Express (UK) 29 June 1974
Taken backstage by Linda McCartney
The following article was published in The Times Magazine (UK) on 25/02/2012.
Photographer Carl Dunn had trouble shooting David Bowie at this concert, a stop on the Diamond Dogs tour in 1974. “Cameras were forbidden, so
my friend snuck in my camera in her handbag,” he says. “I then had to stay in my seat to shoot throughout the concert so no one would see me.”
This was the first time that Dunn, a regular photographer of rock concerts, had encountered a moratorium on pictures. He now suspects this was
less to do with controlling Bowie's image than with stopping photographers from crowding the front of the stage and blocking the view of paying
fans. "I wish I could have moved around more to capture the scope," he says. “It was such a theatrical show with fantastic staging; a real
production.”
Dunn remembers the audience being awestruck by Bowie, who assumed several incarnations during the show, which included a mime and a
Shakespearean scene with a skull. "This was Memphis, the home of Elvis." he says. “We were used to Super Trouper spotlights on the King. We
hadn't seen anything like this before."
ABIGAIL RADNOR
