Date:

Friday, July 13, 1990

Venue:

The Spectrum

Location:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Notes:

David Bowie's 1990 Sound+Vision Tour was billed as a greatest hits tour in which Bowie would retire his back catalogue of hit songs from live performance. Bowie was looking for a way to rejuvenate himself artistically.[1] To this end, Bowie wanted to avoid having to play his old hits live forever, and used the release of the Sound + Vision box set as the impetus for a tour, despite having no new material recorded.[
In Philadelphia, Bowie stopped his performance in the middle of the song "Young Americans" to speak out against music censorship, specifically due to the controversy over 2 Live Crew's album As Nasty As They Wanna Be, saying "I've been listening to the album by 2 Live Crew. It's not the best album that's ever been made, but when I heard they banned it, I went out and bought it. Freedom of thought, freedom of speech – it's one of the most important things we have."

Alternative Rock, Art Pop, Art Rock, Blue-Eyed Soul, Classic Rock, Experimental Rock, Glam Rock, Pop, Pop Rock, Psychedelic Pop, Rock, Singer-Songwriter, Soul, Alternative, British, Post-Disco, UK, and Permanent Wave.

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