VH1 Storytellers

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VH1’s <i>Storytellers</i> series served as the perfect platform for veteran artists to revisit their older material with new ears and old stories. As befits an ever-changing musical chameleon, David Bowie charmed his audience with his usual grace and humor and then challenged them with a few new tunes (“Thursday’s Child,” “Seven”) and unexpected catalog numbers (“Can’t Help Thinking About Me,” a single he recorded with the Lower Third in 1965, Tin Machine’s “I Can’t Read,” “Word On a Wing” from <i>Station to Station</i>) sprinkled among the better-known evergreens (“Rebel Rebel,” “China Girl”). This unconventional approach makes this 1999 performance at NYC’s Manhattan Center much more than a simple David Bowie concert or like anything resembling a nostalgia trip. Bowie was determined to rewrite his career on his own terms and while he has the history to crack wise on Iggy Pop, he also knows how to keep the motion moving forward. It also helps that Bowie is in fine vocal form and can still bring chills with his extraterrestrial reads of <i>Hunky Dory</i>’s “Life On Mars?” and <i>Low</i>’s “Always Crashing In the Same Car.”

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