Reply With QuoteDid David Bowie actually attend one of Elvis's shows at MSG or was that just hype??
Okay, I stand corrected about David Bowie attending an Elvis show at Madison Square Garden.
Here's an excerpt he wrote about his 70s experiences in New York. How cool would it have been to see The King on stage with "Ziggy Stardust"??
"One of my most exciting trips happened about a year or so later. Having performed a gig outside London on a Thursday in June 1972, I shot home to sleep, then caught an early-morning flight?getting me to Madison Square Garden about ten minutes after Elvis hit the stage. I had the humiliating experience of walking down the center aisle to my very good RCA-provided seat while Elvis performed ?Proud Mary.? As I was in full Ziggy regalia by this time?brilliant red hair and Kabuki platform shoes?I?m sure many of the audience presumed Mary had just arrived.
"Elvis was fantastically fit-looking, and his voice was in great shape. I was a little brought down as his show lasted only about 45 minutes. But there he was. At the end, I rushed off to the airport to get the next plane back to the UK, as I myself was working on Saturday night."
Did David Bowie actually attend one of Elvis's shows at MSG or was that just hype??
Yeah, he was there, at least according to the man himself as written above.
There are aparently a cpl of pics of John and Yoko in front of EP on stage from MSG in '72, but I've yet to see them.
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