Tour Legacy
Bowie felt that a burden had been lifted by retiring the old songs he felt he was forced to perform, and said:
was a very selfish thing to do, but it gave me an immense sense of freedom, to feel that I couldn't rely on any of those things. It's like I'm approaching it all from the ground up now, starting with 'Okay, we know what songs we needn't do anymore. What, of my past, did I really like?' You pick things that were really good songs, and you try to recontextualize them, by giving them current, contemporary rhythms. And we've been knocking around ideas like 'Shopping for Girls' from Tin Machine, 'Repetition' and 'Quicksand' from Hunky Dory. Certain songs that I probably haven't ever performed onstage. They're working shoulder to shoulder with the new material, and I'm starting to see continuity in the way that I work. —March 1997Bowie would in fact retire most of his older repertoire from live performances, reviving only his personal favorites on later tours (starting with performances of "Heroes" in 1996).
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