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65-502: The Glass Spider Tour was a 1987 worldwide concert tour by the English musician David Bowie , launched in support of his album Never Let Me Down and named for that album's track "Glass Spider". It began in May 1987 and was preceded by a two-week press tour that saw Bowie visit nine countries throughout Europe and North America to drum up public interest in the tour. The Glass Spider Tour

130-483: A Flying by Foy abseiling harness, and was subsequently tied up by riot police. On at least one occasion, the flying segment of the song was dropped due to a malfunction with the set. The movie footage shown behind Bowie during "'Heroes'" was shot by Bowie during his time in Russia in 1974. Of the footage, Bowie said: There's a poignant image of a Mongolian with a hanky in his hand waving goodbye to his family getting on

195-507: A banjolele that had belonged to his mother (Peter's grandmother). After Peter learned to play that, he gave him the gift of a six-string guitar for Christmas. He also introduced him to the music of Django Reinhardt , which Peter Frampton later cited as being influential to his own musical style. In 1946, while taking classes at Beckenham Art School, Frampton began teaching in the art department of Beckenham Technical School, later known as Bromley Technical High School, and currently known as

260-620: A Sotheby's auction in 1990 for $ 7,000 (worth about $ 16,300 today) several times its expected selling price. That same outfit was again put up for auction in December 2016 with an expected selling price of $ 20,000–⁠$ 30,000, and was sold for $ 32,500. On tour, the band typically performed a roughly two and a half-hour set that varied only a little from night to night. Early European set list Late European / American / Australasian set list Concert tour Different segments of longer concert tours are known as "legs". The different legs of

325-482: A book to sell; I don't have an album to sell; I'm just here as a guitarist. The pressure is off. I'm enjoying myself." Frampton and Bowie had known each other since their teen years when they both attended Bromley Technical School, where Frampton's father, Owen Frampton , was Bowie's art teacher. Bowie had a clear goal for this tour: to return to the theatrics that he had performed during his short-lived 1974 Diamond Dogs Tour . He wanted this tour to be "ultra-theatrical,

390-475: A chance again." When asked if he would elaborate on his plans, he replied "No! [Laughs.] Too many other acts are goin' out. I'll just be doing what I always did, which is keeping things interesting." "I've eaten, slept, and thought about nothing but this show for six months." —David Bowie, June 1987 in London Bowie was joined by long-time friend Peter Frampton on the tour. Frampton said "I don't have

455-482: A combination of music, theater, and rock", and he felt that his previous tour, while successful, had veered away from the theatrics that he preferred: [In 1983 for the Serious Moonlight Tour ] the promoters were coming around and saying, "Listen David, we moved you from this 10,000 seater up to this 30,000-seater" ... and it grew and grew and there were 60,000-seaters coming up. ... Let's trim back on

520-399: A kind of straitjacket, and a crawl for three-and-a-half minutes. A girl is with me, as if she's accompanying her pet in a park, but she has a cylinder on her back, and every now and then she's giving me oxygen. It felt like a very protective, a very sad little image, and it felt right for the song. For Part 2, Bowie appeared on the stage's scaffolding to "'87 & Cry", flew through the air in

585-482: A live performance with Tina Turner for one of her shows on her 1985 Private Dancer Tour , Bowie collaborated with his friend Iggy Pop for his solo album Blah-Blah-Blah , producing and co-writing multiple tracks. He then worked with Turkish musician Erdal Kızılçay for the title song of the 1986 film When the Wind Blows . In late 1986, Bowie began recording sessions for his album Never Let Me Down , which

650-458: A lot of that mid-70s material, but not the more ponderous things like ' Warszawa .' I tried that, and that was a bit yawn-making. There was one I was humming to myself the other day: [sings] 'Baby, baby, I'll never let you down' – oh lord, what's that one? Jesus, I can't remember it. ... 'Sons of the Silent Age!' [snaps fingers] Ah! That's right! Thank god I could remember it! So that for me now

715-804: A new form of theatrical entertainment, a fusion of song, performance art, innovative stage craft, and state-of-the-art technology. She managed to popularize the Las Vegas residency as a desirable way for top artists to essentially tour in place, letting their fans come to them. American singer Lady Gaga , who cancelled the 2018 European leg of her Joanne World Tour , signed for a Las Vegas residency to help manage her fibromyalgia illness, which can be exacerbated by touring. The 2015 study by charity Help Musicians found that over 60% of musicians suffered from depression or other psychological issues, with touring an issue for 71% of respondents. Owen Frampton Owen Frampton (6 April 1919 – 16 September 2005)

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780-521: A passion for design which involved us designing book jackets, album covers, TV credits, posters, fabrics, ceramics and furniture at the age of 16." After his retirement from teaching at age 60, Owen and Peggy Frampton moved to New York , near Peter's home, but returned to live in England after several years. In the 1970s, Frampton wrote a still-unpublished memoir, Our Way: the Autobiography of

845-400: A piece of theatricality that I really adore. I’m really proud of it. The encore typically opened with the song " Time ", for which Bowie emerged from the top of the spider's head with angel wings behind him, 60 feet above the crowd. The song was occasionally cut from outdoor shows when bad weather made the perch atop the spider too precarious to perform. For the first act, Bowie was dressed in

910-434: A rock singer, it's about rock music, so it has a lot to do with the audience and how they perceive rock, and rock figures, and all the cliches, archetypes and stereotypes, and also family relationship." During the show itself, Bowie incorporated a wide variety of props: "I'm really attempting to do a lot of stuff! It incorporates movement, dialogue, fragments of film, projected images, it's what used to be called multi-media in

975-567: A ship, which is the voyage, with the rigging and the climbing and the ropes. And the bottom circular area is like the Circus of Lights, so it really is from birth, and the voyaging through life." Bowie assembled his band in early 1987 and were joined on stage by five dancers who were choreographed by Bowie's long-time friend Toni Basil . The band and the dancers spent time in 12-hour-a-day rehearsals in New York before moving on to Europe. Bowie shot

1040-467: A single-breasted three-quarters length red suit with a red shirt and pants designed by Diana Moseley . The outfit included red Chelsea boots with silver details at the heel and toe. One of the outfits that Bowie wore for Part 2, signed by Bowie, was put up for auction on 21 May 2016 and was sold for $ 37,500. Bowie's outfit for the encore was a gold lamé leather suit complete with gold winged cowboy boots. One of these suits, also autographed by Bowie, sold at

1105-453: A tour are denoted in different ways, dependent on the artist and type of tour, but the most common means of separating legs are dates (especially if there is a long break at some point), countries and/or continents, or different opening acts. In the largest concert tours, it has become more common for different legs to employ separate touring production crews and equipment, local to each geographical region. Concert tours are often administered on

1170-445: A train to Moscow and I loop that up so there's a never ending sequence of this old fellow dabbing his tears and waving bye-bye. That plays behind the action in black and white and it's alarmingly sad. It's like saying goodbye to heroism; it's like saying goodbye to a world of a 19th century ideal. It's irretrievable and now maybe we’re just looking for seeds of intelligence and not heroes. There's something about it that I really like. It's

1235-528: A variety of artists. Starting in the late 2000s, the tour began to collect accolades for its successes, and in 2010 the tour was named one of the top concert tour designs of all time. The tour was financially successful and well-attended, being seen by perhaps as many as six million fans worldwide, but the negative critical reception of the album and tour led Bowie to not only abandon plans for other elaborate stage shows, but to reconsider his motivations for making music. Performances from this tour were released on

1300-673: A worn out rag doll." —David Bowie, 1987 Rehearsals with the full Spider set were staged in Rotterdam's Ahoy arena starting on 18 May before moving to De Kuip stadium for the dress rehearsals (27 and 28 May). Due to relatively easy access to the venues during rehearsals, fans knew what the set list for the show would be before the tour even opened. Bowie stated that he was looking for dancers who did not look like typical MTV dancers and who knew both American street-dancing and European performance art. Originally Bowie had hoped to have Édouard Lock of La La La Human Steps be involved in

1365-485: Is Taylor Swift 's Eras Tour , with $ 2.089 billion earned from 125 shows. In 2024, Coldplay 's Music of the Spheres World Tour became the second tour to gross $ 1 billion in revenue. In third place is Elton John 's Farewell Yellow Brick Road , with a total gross of $ 939 million from 2018–2023. On fourth place is Ed Sheeran 's ÷ Tour , with a gross of $ 776.2 million. On fifth place

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1430-400: Is U2 's 360° Tour , with $ 736.4 million. Global touring revenue reported to Billboard Boxscore exceeded $ 5.5 billion in 2016. Due to the collapse of record sales in the 21st century, concert tours have become a major source of income for recording artists. Besides the tickets, touring also generates money from the sales of merchandise and meet-and-greet packages. However,

1495-443: Is a concert tour intended to signal the retirement of a singer, the disbanding of a band, or the end of a show's run. Many of the tours end up not being the last tour, with frequent regroupings, or revivals of shows. Luciano Pavarotti 's 2004 tour and Kenny Rogers 's 2015–2017 tour are examples of farewell tours which were the last to be staged before their deaths. As of October 2024, the highest-grossing concert tour of all time

1560-513: Is a new song. I've never done that one onstage." " Sons of the Silent Age " was performed every night of the tour. All but two songs ("Too Dizzy" and "Shining Star (Makin' My Love)") from his album Never Let Me Down were played live during the tour, although "Shining Star" was among the songs rehearsed. Other songs rehearsed but not performed were "Because You're Young" and " Scream Like a Baby ", both from Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (1980). Several songs that Bowie had anticipated playing on

1625-439: Is a peculiar thing, it doesn't suit me particularly well. I'm a real homebody and I get so much joy in the small things." A concert residency concept is offered as an alternative to performers who just need to stay in one venue and the fans come to see them. The concept has been revitalized in the 21st century by Canadian superstar Céline Dion with the success of her A New Day... residency (2003–2007). Her residency introduced

1690-437: Is a retrospective of her career to that point, where each act of the concert represents one of her albums . In another case, artists embark on a concert tour to celebrate the anniversary of their past albums, such as U2 's 2017 tour to mark the 30th anniversary of The Joshua Tree (1987) and Janet Jackson 's 2019 tour to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989). A farewell tour

1755-544: The Ravens Wood School . Besides teaching art, Frampton also taught boxing . His students included David Jones (later David Bowie ) and George Underwood , as well as his own sons Peter and Clive. Peter Frampton later reflected on his early interest in performing popular music: "I asked my father, who was head of the art department at the school, who was into music... ...and he said well there's this David Jones character -- he seems to play guitar and sax. So it

1820-655: The Royal Artillery , and participated in the North African Campaign , the Allied invasion of Sicily , and the Battle of Monte Cassino . He left the army and returned to Great Britain in 1946. In 1941, he married his childhood friend Peggy ffitch, to whom he remained married for 64 years, until his death. They had two sons, Peter and Clive. Frampton provided Peter with his first musical instrument,

1885-524: The '60s." Bowie described how he assembled the show, saying, "The idea was to concoct surrealist or minimalist stage pieces to accompany rock-and-roll songs. I wanted to bridge together some kind of symbolist theater and modern dance. Not jazz dance, certainly not MTV dance, but something more influenced by people like Pina Bausch and a Montreal group called [La La La Human Steps]. There are some symbolist pieces, some minimalist pieces, and some vulgar pieces, too – some straightforward vaudeville bits." When Bowie

1950-561: The Pepsi-Cola company. As far as I'm concerned, what it's allowed me to do, having them underwrite the tour, is to be able to produce a far more extravagant show than if I were just doing it myself. It means that instead of just having 1 or 2 sets I can have 3 or 4 sets made, and they can travel independently and they can be far more complicated." Bowie had originally planned to take the Glass Spider Tour to Russia, albeit with

2015-555: The Serious Moonlight Tour a success, saying, "It seemed so easy. It was cheers from the word go. You know how to get a reaction – play ' Changes ,' ' Golden Years ' and they'd be up on their feet. You get the reaction, take the money and run away. It seemed too easy. I didn't want to do that again." In a different contemporary interview he said, "I'm not doing ' Star ' again. That was quite hard. I don't think I'm doing much Ziggy material on this tour! [laughs] Probably use

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2080-624: The US and seven countries in Europe. The press tour shows were typically delivered in smaller venues seating around 300 people, and local fans were often allowed into the events. He used the opportunity to educate the press on his album and the tour, and the multiple dates allowed him to correct misinformation. At the London Glass Spider Press Conference, he clarified that "I didn't say 'lights, costumes and sex,' what I said

2145-676: The VHS video Glass Spider (1988, re-released on DVD in 2007). In the four years prior to the release of Never Let Me Down , Bowie had worked on a series of miscellaneous projects that included collaborations with the Pat Metheny Group for " This Is Not America " and Mick Jagger for " Dancing in the Street ". He also continued acting and composing for film soundtracks such as Absolute Beginners (1985) and Labyrinth (1986). In 1985, after his successful performance at Live Aid and

2210-502: The age of 14, was already a cult figure. At this period in my teaching career, I was thoroughly used to very individualistic pupils and was rarely surprised by anything that occurred. Even when David varied the colour of his hair or cropped it short, or plucked his eyebrows, I accepted his actions as a means of projecting his personality, and of that he had plenty! I did however experience a sense of relief when I obtained employment for both him and George Underwood in advertising studios and at

2275-415: The band only and no dancers or elaborate props, but with the money and extra stage provided by the sponsorship, Bowie felt he could take the full tour to Russia and South America. However, these plans failed to come to fruition, and the tour never reached those regions. Bowie elected to play less well-known songs on the tour and avoided some of his bigger hits. He was eager to not repeat the formula that made

2340-418: The dance troupe threatened Bowie with a street fight, which, by the end of the song, he accidentally wins. For the live rendition of " Never Let Me Down ", the performance of which Bowie called "abrasive", he was influenced by the minimalist choreography of Pina Bausch . He said: I wanted one straight movement that starts upstage and comes all the way downstage and doesn't vary. I'm on my knees, with my arms in

2405-420: The general public. There will be songs from albums that weren't huge albums, but now those particular songs actually fit a section of the show. So when you put three songs together, you can create a vignette that works. It has a beginning and a conclusion and deals with one subject. Bowie indicated that he was "testing the waters" with this tour, and was potentially considering other large, elaborate stage shows if

2470-434: The local level by concert promoters or by performing arts presenters . Usually, small concert tours are managed by a road manager whereas large concert tours are managed by a tour manager . The main challenge in concert tours is how to move the performance's logistics from one venue to another venue, especially for a transcontinental tour. Tour logistics should be very organized and everything has to happen on time and in

2535-474: The right order as planned. Autoweek magazine estimated 30 to 50 trucks were required by Taylor Swift 's The 1989 World Tour to bring all the stage, sound equipment, instruments, props, and clothes. When Beyoncé visited the United Kingdom with her 2016 The Formation World Tour , it took seven Boeing 747 air freighters and a fleet of more than 70 trucks to get her stage set and other gear to

2600-418: The sets enough to bring the show indoors. ... I may decide to have a smaller 'indoor' set made somewhere during the tour." He did in fact commission a third slightly smaller set, called the "Junior Bug" set, to be used at indoor venues where the full spider would not fit, such as New York's Madison Square Garden . Bowie thought of the whole set as a metaphor of life, describing the stage as having "a feeling of

2665-412: The show to the song "Glass Spider", for which he was lowered from the set's ceiling while seated in a silver chair and singing into a telephone. The show's first vignette began with " Bang Bang ", during which Bowie pulled an audience member out of the crowd, only to be rejected by the fan, who by the end of the song was revealed to be one of the troupe's dancers. Later in the show, for the song " Fashion ",

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2730-523: The show, but the group was booked with other commitments. Bowie later lamented that the Tour may have been viewed differently if La La La Human Steps had been involved: "It would have been a different ballgame." La La La Human Steps would provide the choreography for Bowie's next tour, the Sound+Vision Tour of 1990. The show was divided into two parts and included a planned encore. Bowie entered

2795-531: The songs were written for the show. That's the ultimate, of course. If this works the way I hope it does, then the next step for me will be to write a piece specifically for arenas and stadiums, which is almost like taking a musical on the road that has one narrative form all the way through, with a cast of characters, and is written for epic theater. Bowie decided that the theme for the show would be "the reality and unreality of rock," or, as one critic called it, "rock stars vs. reality". Bowie said, "It's not just about

2860-417: The theatrics and really go for giving them songs that they've heard on the radio for the last 15 years or so – songs they probably didn't realize when added up are a great body of work coming from this guy. ... Whereas with [The Glass Spider] tour coming up, I feel I've established that. What I now want to do is have the songs work for the performance. ... Certainly there will be obscure songs on it, at least for

2925-445: The time I thought that probably it would be the last I would hear of either of them." Another of his students, Aziz Cami, who would go on to co-found a design consulting firm, said of Frampton, "The school ‘losers’ – the art stream – weren't a lost cause for him... ...His ambition to have his secondary school course recognised as an accredited pre-Diploma year by art colleges was uniquely fulfilled in 1967. He achieved this by encouraging

2990-430: The time was considered a controversial commercial sponsorship agreement with PepsiCo , which was later seen as helping to pave the way for other big money tours by other artists. For his part, Bowie recorded a TV commercial with Tina Turner to the tune " Modern Love " in May 1987 while he was preparing for the tour. Of the sponsorship agreement, Bowie said, "We did a commercial sponsorship thing only for North America with

3055-432: The tour as a theatrical show, and included spoken-word introductions to some songs, vignettes , and employed visuals including projected videos, theatrical lighting and stage props. On stage, Bowie was joined by guitarist Peter Frampton and a troupe of five dancers choreographed by long-time Bowie collaborator Toni Basil . With the theme "Rock stars vs Reality", the show was divided into two acts and an encore. The set list

3120-467: The tour was successful: The songs have to work within the show—not the show working for the songs, if you see what I mean. That's why it's so different. And that's why it's so exciting, because that's the way I really like working. I mean, I like devising a show. I've got a show book that is almost like the bible you have when you're working on a play. It's written and structured with various thematic devices. Unfortunately, it's in revue form, because none of

3185-488: The tour were abandoned before rehearsals even started, including " Space Oddity " (from David Bowie (1969)), " Joe the Lion " (from "Heroes" (1977)), "Ricochet" (from Let's Dance (1983)), and "Don't Look Down" (from Tonight (1984)). Songs performed during the tour were "chosen because they fit the performance" and fit Bowie's goal to make a show that was much more theatrical and had strong dramatic content. When he

3250-485: The tour, and he paid $ 1 million a week to maintain a staff of 150 people to maintain and build the three sets as the tour moved around the world. In Philadelphia, where the tour opened in the US, the set was described as taking "300 people 4 days" to build. About halfway through the first leg of the tour in Europe, Bowie discovered that the full Spider set was so large that it would not fit in most indoor venues. He said, "It would cost me between $ 500,000 and $ 600,000 to alter

3315-499: The touring business suffered in the early 2020s because of the COVID-19 pandemic . Pollstar estimated the total lost revenue for the industry in 2020 at more than $ 30 billion. The mobility of concert tours requires a lot of costs, time, and energy. It is very common for musicians to not see family members for over a year during their touring. British singer Adele expressed her unhappiness of concert tours, saying "Touring

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3380-577: The venues. The logistics phase of that tour did not include transportation of the backstage staff, musicians, performers, and the singer herself. The majority of concert tours are part of a promotional campaign to support an album release. Hence, new songs from the respective album are included on its tour's setlist . Some tours are known as "greatest hits tours" or "reunion tour" without any new material or specific album release, such as Fleetwood Mac 's 2009 Unleashed tour and No Doubt 's 2009 Summer Tour . Taylor Swift 's The Eras Tour (2023–2024)

3445-486: The video for his single " Time Will Crawl " during these rehearsals; it previewed some of the elaborate dance routines that were used during performances of " Loving the Alien " (1985), " Fashion " (1980) and " Sons of the Silent Age " (1977). Bowie described his rehearsal routine: I prepare the day's work when I get up in the morning, and then I go in around 10 o'clock (a.m.) for rehearsals. Then it's constant rehearsals, both

3510-508: The visual side and the musical side, through about 8 o'clock (p.m.). At around 8 p.m. I look at the video tapes of what we've been doing during the day, and make adjustments if necessary. So there really isn't time to do anything else at all except Sundays, and then I sleep for most of the day. It's very intensive rehearsals, and physically it's quite demanding. "[The Glass Spider Tour is] the most physical tour that I've done ever. ... It's relentless, it never stops. I'm bruised as hell. I feel like

3575-421: The years, and they've come back again for one reason or another. I've sort of got that mutual agreement with them. If it's not going very well then they stay away. Which is fair enough, you know. Bowie reportedly coordinated aspects of the tour via email, a rarity in the late 1980s. In announcing the tour, Bowie embarked on a series of promotional press shows covering nine countries in two weeks, including Canada,

3640-430: Was 'lights, costumes and theatrical sets ' " in response to a question about what the audience could expect when seeing his new live show. Press tour shows included live performances of some of the songs from the album Never Let Me Down . Articles promoting Bowie's album and tour appeared in non-music periodicals in mid- to late-1987 such as In Fashion , Mademoiselle and Teen magazines. Bowie agreed to what at

3705-514: Was Bowie's first tour where wireless microphone technology was available, allowing Bowie considerable freedom to move around the stage during a concert. This allowed him to interact with the dancers and musicians much more freely, and as such the set included 3-story high mobile scaffolding, onto which Bowie and his dancers would occasionally climb during the show. Each set cost US$ 10 million, about $ 26.8 million in today's dollars. Bowie himself invested over $ 10 million of his own money to help fund

3770-520: Was an English art teacher. He was the father of musician Peter Frampton , and a teacher of musician David Bowie and novelist Hanif Kureishi . Frampton was born in the Kennington district of London, England. His family later lived in other communities, including Sheerness and Beckenham . After the beginning of World War II , he enlisted in the British Army . He became an officer in

3835-495: Was asked how he was going to make his rock show "dramatic", he replied, "You'll be surprised what you can do with a 6-piece rock band and a stage and a couple of lights." The tour's set, described at the time as "the largest touring set ever," was designed to look like a giant spider. It was 60 feet (18.3m) high, 64 feet (19.5m) wide and included giant vacuum tube legs that were lit from the inside with 20,000' (6,096m) of colour-changing lights. A single set took 43 trucks to move and

3900-720: Was asked what he thought his audience expected of him on this tour, he said: I guess that they come along to see whether I'll fall down or something. I really don't know. I know that they get what they consider is a really good performance. I think that over the years I've proved that I do my best to provide them with some new vision of musical information on the stage. So I think there's probably that element in it, but I couldn't go any further than that. I really don't know what they want from me. I've never really been able to write for them. I've only written and performed that which interests me. So essentially they have an agreement with me and that's great. I mean, I've lost audiences many times over

3965-442: Was estimated to weigh 360 tons. 16' x 20' (4.9m x 6m) video screens displayed video and images from the show to those in the audience who were further away from the stage. The system required to run the show included two separate sound systems, 260 speaker cabinets, 1,000 lights with an output total of 600,000 watts, and three computers. Mark Ravitz , the set designer, had previously designed Bowie's 1974 Diamond Dogs Tour set. This

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4030-468: Was modified over the course of the tour as Bowie dropped some of his newer material in favour of older songs from his repertoire. The tour was generally poorly received at the time for being perceived as overblown and pretentious. Despite the criticism, Bowie in 1991 remarked that this tour laid the groundwork for later successful theatrical tours by other artists, and the set's design and the show's integration of music and theatrics has inspired later acts by

4095-459: Was released in April 1987. He had not toured for his 1984 album Tonight , making the Glass Spider Tour his first tour in four years. Preparations for the tour began as early as 1986, when Bowie warned his band to "be ready for next year." Bowie was initially mum on his plans for his tour, saying only "I'm going to do a stage thing this year, which I'm incredibly excited about, 'cause I'm gonna take

4160-415: Was the first Bowie tour to visit Austria, Italy, Spain, Ireland and Wales. Through a sponsorship from Pepsi, the tour was intended to visit Russia and South America as well, but these plans were later cancelled. The tour was, at that point, the longest and most expensive tour Bowie had embarked upon in his career. At the time, the tour's elaborate set was called "the largest touring set ever". Bowie conceived

4225-500: Was the three of us [Jones, Underwood, and Peter Frampton] exchanging licks really -- they taught me Buddy Holly numbers and I showed them what I knew on guitar --so that's when our friendship started on those stone steps." Owen Frampton later wrote of his experiences teaching Jones and Underwood in a later (unpublished) autobiography: "David was quite unpredictable. He was completely misunderstood by most of my teaching colleagues, but in those days, cults were unfashionable and David, by

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