'Birthday Celebration - Live in NYC 1997'...
Holly Frith

13:25 17th March 2011

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The Foo Fighters, Lou Reed, Billy Corgan and The Cure's Robert Smith will all feature on David Bowie's new live album.

The album, entitled 'Birthday Celebration - Live in NYC 1997', will be released in the US on April 26.


The live session, which was recorded during Bowie's 50th birthday concert at York's Madison Square Gardens in 1997, will also feature Sonic Youth and Pixies' Frank Black.

A UK release date has not yet been confirmed.

The tracklisting for 'Birthday Celebration - Live in NYC 1997' is:

'Little Wonder'
'The Hearts Filthy Lesson'
'Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)' - ft Frank Black
'Fashion' -  ft Frank Black
'Telling Lies'
'Hallo Spaceboy' - ft Foo Fighters
'Seven Years In Tibet' - ft Dave Grohl
'The Man Who Sold The World'
'The Last Thing You Should Do' - ft Robert Smith
'Quicksand' - ft Robert Smith
'Battle For Britain'
'Voyeur Of Utter Destruction (As Beauty)'
'I’m Afraid Of Americans' - ft with Sonic Youth
'Looking For Satellites'
'Under Pressure' - ft Gail Ann Dorsey
'Heroes'
'Queen Bitch' - ft Lou Reed
'I’m Waiting For The Man' - ft Lou Reed
'Dirty Blvd.' - ft Lou Reed
'White Light/White Heat' - ft Lou Reed
'Moonage Daydream'
'All The Young Dudes' ft - Billy Corgan
'The Jean Genie' - ft Billy Corgan
'Space Oddity'
'Can’t Read'

David Bowie

  • A fresh faced Bowie with a very fresh faced Iggy Pop in 1979 (WENN)

  • Looking pretty dapper in green in the Eighties. (PR Photos)

  • circa ‘Hunky Dory’ in 1971. Nice hair Dave.

  • Smoking a fag in 1972 – sadly lacking his Ziggy Stardust makeup.

  • Who said quiffs have gone out of fashion? (PR Photos)

  • David Bowie @ The Tweeter Center, Chicago, 2002 (Adam Bielawski / PR Photos)

  • A profile of Bowie in the early Eighties.

  • David Bowie wearing a lovely shirt at a CD signing in London - February 2002

  • Bowie drawing a strange image. Station to Station era. Nice ginger comb over! 1976

  • A defining moment in pop culture. The androgynous David Bowie and Mick Ronson are about to embrace during the Top of the Pops rendition of ‘Starman’

  • David Bowie performing in New York, 1995 (WENN)

  • Bowie as Ziggy Stardust – 1972

  • A more rotund Bowie on Broadway in New York – autumn 2005. (Wild1 / PR Photos)

  • David Bowie as Jareth the Goblin King in seminal 1986 movie Labyrinth.

  • David Bowie with his old chum Lou Reed in New York in 1996 (New York Daily News / WENN)

  • The Thin White Duke @ Madison Square Gardens 26/03/76 (New York Daily News / WENN)

  • David Bowie at the party for wife Iman's new book 'The Beauty of Color' held at Cipriani, New York City, USA – 18/10/05

  • A blonde haired Bowie on the video for Let’s Dance back in 1983

  • From the UK version of the 1969 album ‘Space Oddity’

  • The Thin White Duke strikes again

  • With Ricky Gervais and the other guests on the BBC comedy 'Extras'

  • The timeless sleeve to ‘Aladdin Sane’ 1973

  • circa ‘Low’ 1977 – a time when Bowie was on the verge of mental collapse

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Photo: Carsten Windhorst