{"id":91104,"date":"2023-04-03T20:44:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T20:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/03\/david-bowies-manager-claims-a-ziggy-stardust-comeback-tour-was-planned\/"},"modified":"2023-04-03T20:44:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T20:44:18","slug":"david-bowies-supervisor-claims-a-ziggy-stardust-comeback-tour-was-deliberate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/03\/david-bowies-supervisor-claims-a-ziggy-stardust-comeback-tour-was-deliberate\/","title":{"rendered":"David Bowie&#8217;s supervisor claims a Ziggy Stardust comeback tour was deliberate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_95\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/david-bowie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Bowie<\/a>\u2018s former supervisor Tony Defries has mentioned that the late icon deliberate to convey again Ziggy Stardust for a comeback tour.<\/p>\n<p>Bowie famously retired his alter ego at a live performance at London\u2019s Hammersmith Odeon in 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about his causes for killing off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/blogs\/nme-blogs\/star-man-the-story-of-bowies-ziggy-stardust-763290\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ziggy on the time<\/a>, the late icon advised <em>NME: <\/em>\u201cThat\u2019s it. Period. I don\u2019t want to do any more gigs and the American dates have been cancelled. From now on I\u2019ll be concentrating on various activities that have very little to do with rock and pop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, Defries has mentioned the rationale he retired his persona was due to its success.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Fq8gG3pzMrU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"David Bowie \u2013 Ziggy Stardust (Live, 1973)\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fq8gG3pzMrU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBasically, I think success wasn\u2019t the ideal situation for David,\u201d Defries advised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mojo4music.com\/articles\/stories\/a-flash-of-genius-the-inside-story-of-david-bowies-aladdin-sane-sleeve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>MOJO<\/em><\/a>. \u201cWhen [1973 album] \u2018Aladdin Sane\u2019 was selling enormous quantities and crowds were shutting down railway stations, just to get a glance of him, I think that\u2019s when it all began to sink in, that he was no longer an ordinary person. The Ziggy effect was taking hold and he couldn\u2019t cope with it, really,\u201d he mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>He additionally mentioned Bowie\u2019s reasoning was influenced by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/frank-sinatra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Frank Sinatra<\/a>, who stop the music trade in 1971 earlier than returning two years later. He defined: \u201cDavid was a big Sinatra fan. Making the comeback is the key thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most surprisingly although he mentioned they deliberate on doing a comeback tour.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cWe tried and failed to get promoters in America to book [a Bowie \/ Ziggy Stardust comeback tour] into large arenas as a headliner. So, that was a real reason for retiring Ziggy, to be honest with you\u2026 nothing to do with music or style or anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bowie additionally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/david-bowie-once-planned-to-relaunch-ziggy-stardust-from-outer-space-2720391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wished to relaunch Ziggy Stardust in house, video video games designer Phil Campbell<\/a> beforehand mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Bowie\u2019s property yesterday (April 2) paid tribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/ryuichi-sakamoto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryuichi Sakamoto<\/a> after he lately handed away. Sakamoto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/pioneering-electronic-musician-ryuichi-sakamoto-has-died-aged-71-3424656\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not solely scored <i>Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence<\/i>, but additionally starred within the warfare movie alongside the late icon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '2300206660218433');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] David Bowie\u2018s former supervisor Tony Defries has mentioned that the late icon deliberate to convey again Ziggy Stardust for a comeback tour. Bowie famously retired his alter ego at a live performance at London\u2019s Hammersmith Odeon in 1973. Speaking about his causes for killing off Ziggy on the time, the late icon advised NME: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-91104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}