A David Bowie concert at London's Earls Court during his Isolar II - The 1978 World Tour. Recordings that were still mixed by Bowie himself but (just like the film recordings) disappeared on the shelf. With this tour he returned to the world after his Berlin retreat where he went into rehab and completed the experimental albums and (1977). As can be heard on the live album (1978) Bowie combined
… material from those Berlin albums with tried and tested rock songs like Five Years, Ziggy Stardust and The Jean Genie during the shows. A combination that turned out wonderfully organically and that year also enraptured the public in Ahoy 'in Rotterdam. Welcome To The Blackout is a nice addition to (the superior) Stage. Where the last album brings together the best of those shows (in an order adapted to the record), we now hear the complete concert of the sobered Bowie with top band during one of the strong periods of his career. (MR)more
