Live Santa Monica '72 Explained

Live Santa Monica '72
Type:	live
Artist:	David Bowie
Cover:	Santa_Monica_-_David_Bowie.jpg
Venue:	Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA
Genre:	Glam rock
Length:	74:21
Label:	EMI
Prev Title:	David Bowie
Prev Year:	2007
Next Title:	iSelect
Next Year:	2008

Live Santa Monica '72 is a live album by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie. It was released on in the United Kingdom and in the United States. It is the official release of KMET FM's radio broadcast, then bootleg album and – later – semi-legal release Santa Monica '72, recorded at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium during the Ziggy Stardust Tour.

By November 2008 the album had sold 10,000 copies in US.^[1]

Track listing

All songs written by David Bowie except where noted.^{[2] [3]}

Personnel

Musicians

• David Bowie – vocals, acoustic guitar
• Mick Ronson – lead guitar, backing vocals
• Trevor Bolder – bass guitar
• Mick "Woody" Woodmansey – drums
• Mike Garson – keyboards

Technical personnel

• Mike Moran – recording engineer
• Grover Hesley – mixing engineer
• B. Mitchel Reed – KMET announcer
• Bob Griffin – KMET engineer
• Bill Fure – KMET engineer
• Bill Calucci – KMET studio tape editor
• Richard Kimball – KMET producer
• Ted Jensen – mastering engineer

External links

• Live Santa Monica '72 (2008, UK, vinyl edition) on Discogs.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ask Billboard: Girls Aloud, David Bowie, Brits. admin. 21 November 2008. Billboard. 27 December 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20180512174307/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/ask-billboard/266212/ask-billboard-girls-aloud-david-bowie-brits. 12 May 2018. live.
2. Web site: [{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r1391051|pure_url=yes}} Live in Santa Monica '72 ]. 5 July 2008 . allmusic . Macrovision Corporation .
3. David Bowie. Live Santa Monica '72 (EMI, 2008).