- Fantastic vintage 1990 DAVID BOWIE T-SHIRT!!!
- The 1990 "Sound & Vision" tour Bowie intended to "retire" his hits. The retrospective tour was intended to be the last time he would perform his classic songs.
- Black, 100% cotton shirt (Brockum).
- Print on front and back.
- Classic Bowie song lyrics make up the "smoke" on the back.
- Made in USA.
- Very good vintage/used condition. No holes or stains.
Marked size XL, but fits closer to a Large. Vintage sizes vary. Check measurements to ensure fit.
It measures 22 inches (56 cm) across the chest and 27 inches (68.6 cm) from the back of the collar area to the bottom.
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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. The tour opened at the Colisée de Québec in Quebec, Canada on 4 March 1990 before reaching its conclusion at the River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 29 September 1990, spanning five continents in seven months. The concert tour surpassed Bowie's previous Serious Moonlight (1983) and Glass Spider (1987) tours' statistics by visiting 27 countries with 108 performances.
Édouard Lock of La La La Human Steps co-conceived and was artistic director for this tour. Bowie's previous Glass Spider Tour and two most recent albums (Tonight (1984) and Never Let Me Down (1987)) had all been critically dismissed, and 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.[2][3][4]
It was stated that Bowie would never perform these greatest hits on tour again.[5][6][7][8] Bowie said "knowing I won't ever have those songs to rely on again spurs me to keep doing new things, which is good for an artist."[9]
Bowie looked forward to retiring his old hits, stating:
It's time to put about 30 or 40 songs to bed and it's my intention that this will be the last time I'll ever do those songs completely, because if I want to make a break from what I've done up until now, I've got to make it concise and not have it as a habit to drop back into. It's so easy to kind of keep going on and saying, well, you can rely on those songs, you can rely on that to have a career or something, and I'm not sure I want that.[3]
—March 1990
He would state in another contemporary interview that "I want to finish off that old phase and start again. By the time I'm in my later forties, I will have built up a whole new repertoire."[4]
It has been noted that Bowie is "famous" for claiming retirement in the past, so many critics and observers did not fully believe Bowie when he said he would not play these songs again. It was announced that the set-list for any given performance of the tour would be partially determined by the most popular titles logged in a telephone poll[5] by calling the number 1-900-2-BOWIE-90.[2] Mail-in ballots were made available to vote by in territories where telephone technology was not available.[8]
Bowie did in fact build the tour's setlist from calls to the phone number from all over the world, saying "What I ended up doing was taking about seven or eight [songs] from [the calls in] England, another seven or eight from the rest of Europe and the rest I made up from America so it's a good sampling of what everybody wanted in all the continents."[2] The first shows of the tour held in March 1990 in Canada were performed before any telephone polls were completed, leading Bowie to guess at the list of songs the audience wanted to hear.[12]
In the US, the songs "Fame," "Let's Dance" and "Changes" topped the list of songs requested by fans, while in Europe the songs "Heroes" and "Blue Jean" were the leaders. Rolling Stone magazine described the 1990 summer concert season "a concert season to remember," and included the Sound+Vision Tour as one of its highlights. They said "Louise Lecavalier of Montreal's La La La Human Steps dance troupe provides avant-garde acrobatics, and several [musical] numbers are graced by stunning short films, including a clip for "Ashes to Ashes" that has to be seen to be believed. Otherwise, there are no pyrotechnics, no laser beams and, best of all, no glass spiders,"[6] the last a reference to Bowie's ill-received previous world tour. A review of an early show by Rolling Stone magazine was positive, saying "Bowie proved able to reclaim virtually his entire diverse oeuvre - even those songs that now seem furthest from him - through sheer vocal power and charisma" and complaining only that "the band wasn't always equal to the challenge, demonstrating too much respect for the songs' recorded arrangements."[12] A review of the show's stop in Vancouver, BC said "Bowie hasn't sounded this good in years", praising the tour's focus on not only the songs, but on Bowie himself,[10] and a review of the show in Seattle, WA called the visuals "a knockout" and praised Bowie as an innovator...
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