David Bowie's 1972 Santa Monica concert is being released on CD

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Published 7/1/2008 by david (boy@largeheartedboy.com) at Largehearted Boy
... The Los Angeles Times gives the backstory to the live David Bowie CD out later this month, David Bowie: Live Santa Monica '72. When Bowie-as-Ziggy stepped on the Civic stage in the fall of 1972, he was greeted by flashing strobe lights and the strains of the Walter Carlos' kinetic version of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy," which was used in Stanley Kubrick's futuristic film "A Clockwork Orange." With his shiny metallic costume, carrot-orange tinged hair and modest layer of white makeup, Ziggy too represented a bold step into the uncertain ...