David Bowie - Cracked Actor (Live, 1983)

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  • David Bowie performing Cracked Actor live on the Serious Moonlight tour in 1983.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 101

  • @JumpinJAKEFlash
    @JumpinJAKEFlash 4 роки тому +107

    David Bowie: cool as the other side of the pillow

    • @Daneyland
      @Daneyland 2 роки тому

      Cooler

    • @marcellosgarbini759
      @marcellosgarbini759 2 роки тому

      Deffo 👌

    • @marktobin6747
      @marktobin6747 Рік тому

      Quite literally the funniest and yet most apt comment I've ever heard or seen printed anywhere.... 🍷Cheers my man 😂👏🏻

  • @powerpop909
    @powerpop909 Рік тому +21

    All the live version of this song 1974 - 2000s this version is the best. His voice, the performance, the dynamic... ✨

  • @misterapplesyd
    @misterapplesyd 4 роки тому +57

    One of the few times David actually did something completely nostalgic (a "throwback") in terms of performance. Also the way he sang the 2nd "before you start professing..."??? It's so good

    • @lordrathut
      @lordrathut 3 роки тому +7

      I think the lyric is "before you start professing you're knocking me dead". the song's about an aging Hollywood star

    • @zion727
      @zion727 Рік тому

      Shut up 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @lilyastor5980
      @lilyastor5980 11 місяців тому +1

      @@lordrathutyeah they’re saying how good that line is

  • @ulftellander6303
    @ulftellander6303 9 років тому +94

    The album Aladdin Sane, from which this song comes from, is one of David Bowies
    absolute best albums!

    • @yummyyum36719
      @yummyyum36719 3 роки тому +1

      True that. In some ways stronger than Ziggy.

    • @lupehn
      @lupehn 3 роки тому +1

      Aladdin Sane is so amazing and I actually love it more than ziggy stardust.

  • @LiquidIronTV
    @LiquidIronTV 7 років тому +124

    What a great throwback to the Diamond Dogs tour!

    • @miti314
      @miti314 3 роки тому +3

      No, it was on the '' Serious Moonlight tour ''

    • @joey6761
      @joey6761 3 роки тому +12

      @@miti314 i think he was reffering to how this was a callback to bowie's performance of the song in 74

    • @miti314
      @miti314 3 роки тому +1

      @@joey6761 Ok

  • @ih8tbush
    @ih8tbush 14 років тому +38

    2nd song of the 2nd set....Just when you thought you couldn't get any more intense after Station to Station, THIS WAS THE ULTIMATE SHOW STOPPER IN MY 35 YEARS OF ATTENDING ROCK AND ROLL SHOWS.

    • @markpreston6930
      @markpreston6930 4 роки тому +1

      I saw this tour in Tacoma. Best arena show I have seen.

  • @deborah8942
    @deborah8942 3 роки тому +20

    My God he was simple incredible wasn't he. How can someone be so talented and so effortlessly cool, it is mind blowing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @PompadourSamurai
    @PompadourSamurai 15 років тому +17

    They even put blush on the skull. A subtle jab, I'd say.

  • @FxkDGM
    @FxkDGM 4 роки тому +17

    Wow what a loss, I feel sorry for David, I can't imagine losing such a talent that is Mick Ronson. What Mick did for the sound on those early albums. The guy did the backing vocals, the string arrangements, the production on most of those records, didn't get any credit for that, but the guitar work he did... those amazing riffs those beautiful solos. The stage presence he had... All around amazing.

  • @reemclaughlin4260
    @reemclaughlin4260 5 років тому +12

    I still cry, 2019, but at least my husband's with him now. 👍🏼🎵🔊

  • @FernandoDANTE
    @FernandoDANTE 9 років тому +56

    Hi there, 240p. I didn't miss you.

  • @longfade
    @longfade 15 років тому +31

    Yorick's skull in Shakespear's play "Hamlet". A very ironic reference.

  • @robertpayne4435
    @robertpayne4435 5 років тому +15

    About every Hollywood star who has lived in that time.
    Pressure expectation and a personal life of chaos for some.

  • @almadora
    @almadora 15 років тому +9

    this concert was one of the first things i taped on my first vcr in like, 1984. i got it from either HBO or Cinemax. i was about 12, and i watched the hell out of it.

  • @tatianacosta7592
    @tatianacosta7592 7 років тому +31

    Eu amo tanto o Bowie, eu nem consigo explicar. Ele sempre estará vivo, no meu coração! ❤

  • @darleneb2104
    @darleneb2104 Рік тому +4

    My idol from way back in my teens! Still love him.

  • @DillPickleet
    @DillPickleet 14 років тому +43

    Definatley prefer the music in the first version, but his voice in this version sounds fuller, more developed.

    • @powerpop909
      @powerpop909 Рік тому

      Yes his voice in this version is the best! ✨

  • @Dixler683
    @Dixler683 3 роки тому +7

    Amazing what some human beings are capable of.

  • @repelghosts
    @repelghosts 15 років тому +4

    at Diamond Dogs in Toronto,Canada we had our matinee show and the evening show...actually saw this song TWICE in one day ,started the best summer of my life...1974!!! Thanks beautiful TORONTO,CANADA!!!!

  • @longfade
    @longfade 15 років тому +8

    Ah, yes, that makes sense! I love the kind of over-the-topness of that tour but totally see why one would not.

  • @michalvillafana5082
    @michalvillafana5082 Рік тому +1

    I am so glad I got to see him three times. That to see diamond dog tour got to see let’s dance tour and I got to see the glass spider tour. It was musical heaven

    • @josephblair8637
      @josephblair8637 10 місяців тому

      saw 10 concerts and Broadway ! 1974-2004)

  • @longfade
    @longfade 15 років тому +14

    A parody of what? The guy's dressed up in full Hamlet regalia, so obviously it's an ironic presentation, but I can't hear anything weird or campy about his vocal performance. I love it. I think it's fucking killer, and it sounds just like Bowie to me on his A-game to me.

    • @peggieschafer485
      @peggieschafer485 Рік тому +1

      I first saw the image of him with the skull, sunglasses, megawatt Hollywood smile, and epic hair and thought it was supposed to go with the song Time, simply a lamentation on its passage.
      It was far more brutal: it was the description of what was seen in LA by a British folk singer after he skyrocketed to stardom (and drug addiction) with rock. The dizzying highs, the lows, and the sorry, pathetic state of the ones who used to be the entertainment elite using what little they have left to get by. Mere products - used up, tossed, and left to rot well before they die by an utterly indifferent culture.

  • @alancornelius1ghf
    @alancornelius1ghf 9 років тому +9

    Brilliant.

  • @DRCRANKNSTEIN
    @DRCRANKNSTEIN 4 роки тому +5

    Very great vocal performance, better,stronger clearer voice than the original recording.

  • @longfade
    @longfade 15 років тому +2

    Oh, me too. There was that simulcast (showtime) that was a big deal back then, and I didn't have a VCR so I just taped the audio portion of it. I listened to it constantly on band trips on my walkman. So cool to see that footage again. Earl Slick, Carlos Alomar, The Simms Brothers, Tony Thompson (RIP)....man, what a show. Unfortunately I was only around 13 at the time so I missed the concert too.

  • @jaybee9269
    @jaybee9269 4 місяці тому

    It must’ve been such a huge pleasure to sit in front of that band.

  • @icanwaitanotherday
    @icanwaitanotherday 14 років тому +7

    Amazing performer! It's all just so easy for him

    • @patriciamays8244
      @patriciamays8244 5 місяців тому

      Nothing's easy onstage, people make it look that way. Takes a few minutes to get into it

  • @bhn7731
    @bhn7731 5 місяців тому

    High caliber, among the highest, playing what can be played here.

  • @cristina5091
    @cristina5091 2 роки тому +1

    David Bowie❤🤩👏👏👏

  • @elsdenf.8598
    @elsdenf.8598 3 роки тому +5

    Maior artista da história!

  • @lloyddavidlieberman1481
    @lloyddavidlieberman1481 7 років тому +2

    Nice thanks for sharing:-)

  • @Tmendler
    @Tmendler 14 років тому +3

    what a lyrical monster.

  • @lionelbeaulaton7610
    @lionelbeaulaton7610 2 роки тому

    sublime du grand bowie!!!!

  • @amner
    @amner 14 років тому +9

    oh i was there never will forget it, what is david doing now?? miss him !!
    happy birthday david!!

    • @lordrathut
      @lordrathut 3 роки тому

      At the time he was on hiatus from music. He did an album in 2013 and another in 2016 before passing

  • @bobbyarp8
    @bobbyarp8 4 роки тому +3

    2:51 ooh!

  • @dizzypilots2639
    @dizzypilots2639 Рік тому

    Geez, this guy was so efing great!

  • @jupitorman
    @jupitorman 4 роки тому +2

    Best listening with headphones

    • @pioneernut7487
      @pioneernut7487 4 роки тому +3

      Nope, best listening on good hifi from original CD

    • @jupitorman
      @jupitorman 4 роки тому +2

      @@pioneernut7487 yea sounds brilliant

  • @cristinacontini3892
    @cristinacontini3892 5 років тому +1

    Che dire un genio

  • @jupitorman
    @jupitorman 15 років тому +2

    j ust love it xxxxxxxxxxx

  • @cirEgnimrahC
    @cirEgnimrahC 15 років тому +2

    i dig it.

  • @si8915
    @si8915 3 роки тому +1

    David con gafas se ve re fachero

  • @Lotselance
    @Lotselance Рік тому

    I love how this song kept evolving and this version barely sounds like the original studio version anymore haha

  • @gaston3979
    @gaston3979 8 років тому +5

    Alas poor David...I knew him not well RIP David Bowie xxxxxx

  • @longfade
    @longfade 15 років тому +1

    Wow! Lucky bastard. How were the Tubes? Seems like it might have been a good time to see them as well.

  • @marcelazanon1872
    @marcelazanon1872 4 роки тому +3

    You could turn this show into a DVD

  • @robertmiczke7337
    @robertmiczke7337 7 років тому +50

    he was a rock star not a pop singer

  • @lella_f
    @lella_f 5 років тому +3

    😁😁👍⚡⚡⚡smack 💙💙😚😚RIP.

  • @fernandofx92
    @fernandofx92 15 років тому +1

    ist the best face of this song

  • @nathelm
    @nathelm 2 роки тому +4

    Imagine what this tour would have been with Stevie Ray Vaughn.

    • @jaybee9269
      @jaybee9269 4 місяці тому

      The only thing that could have made it better!

  • @santesimone7564
    @santesimone7564 10 місяців тому

    Mi piace

  • @user-hy3qi9uk8v
    @user-hy3qi9uk8v 5 місяців тому

    This Bowieilike

  • @alixinthemiddle
    @alixinthemiddle 13 років тому +7

    they even took his sunglasses! )'=

  • @bigdunc1313
    @bigdunc1313 6 років тому +9

    Crack BABY Crack

  • @heavymeddle28
    @heavymeddle28 4 роки тому +2

    Almost as coll as back in 74

  • @jupitorman
    @jupitorman 15 років тому +2

    plastic fantastic bowieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

  • @repelghosts
    @repelghosts 15 років тому +1

    Of course this was the 1983m Serious concerts, we know that moron!
    The August show(s) Sat. nite and the incredible Sunday night concerts in Toronto...
    Love you CANADA...You are a beautiful woman ,as David called ya!
    Gemma n Da Girlz

  • @crazydiamonds3
    @crazydiamonds3 16 років тому +1

    What's the skull about??

    • @ziggsstar
      @ziggsstar 3 роки тому +3

      It's from Shakespeare's Hamlet - Yorick's skull symbolizes the inevitable decay of the human body. Bowie is singing about an ageing actor.

  • @Alianger
    @Alianger 15 років тому +1

    ist nacht

  • @mauroberti416
    @mauroberti416 9 місяців тому

    David i love u wherever u are

  • @Alianger
    @Alianger 15 років тому +5

    Well the original is pretty dark, with screeching guitars and a very desperate impersonation of the character in the song by Bowie. Here he sings it like a 50s rocker and the backing music has cheesy synth effects on it that I just don't like because I associate it with the bad side of 80s music. It feels like i'm watching a musical.

  • @WoodRatGirl
    @WoodRatGirl 15 років тому +2

    Rock Hudson was way better looking than Perez Hilton could ever hope to be.

    • @hyliadreamer
      @hyliadreamer 6 років тому +2

      WoodRatGirl True...but irrelevant.

  • @jasbosch
    @jasbosch 15 років тому

    wanneer

  • @eighthjake
    @eighthjake 16 років тому +3

    shakespeare reference.

  • @GardenOfEros
    @GardenOfEros 16 років тому +1

    First!

  • @slacknhash
    @slacknhash 14 років тому +5

    Ah, now if you want a version of this that's more to your taste, go for the one the Spiders did for their last show.
    I think I know where you're coming from. The Aladdin Sane version of this song sounds much dirtier and more sordid.

  • @MagellanOfBass
    @MagellanOfBass 14 років тому +4

    Original version is much better. Bowie would very often change his older songs when touring years after they got released. Sometimes it workes wonderfully (i.e. CHANGES during Station to Station tour 1976 - look it up here and check it out), but someties it just didn't work. I think Cracked Actor didn't work.
    Has anybody seen Andy Warhol in the Outside Tour? He made it all electronic. It's way too f*ed up in my opinion. xD

  • @moocher2121
    @moocher2121 14 років тому +8

    Hm... put a bit to much theatrics into a song that is initially supposed to be all about a guy telling a girl that he wants to have sex and not talk.

    • @gb3458
      @gb3458 5 років тому +13

      I think it's a mockery of famous Hollywood actors and how they're treated like royalty. It took me a couple viewings to figure it out.

    • @Lundy.Fastnet.Irish_Sea
      @Lundy.Fastnet.Irish_Sea 5 років тому +13

      @@gb3458 reading the lyrics, it seems to be about a hollywood star who's fame has faded away as he aged. He's trying to feel good about himself by hiring a prostitute.

  • @repelghosts
    @repelghosts 15 років тому

    Diamond Dogs ,June 1974, after school was out for the summer...Imagine?
    I was there 2 ,yes shows in ONE DAY kids...Lfe in Toronto...Not all bad...Huh you losers?

  • @Alianger
    @Alianger 15 років тому

    ugh, why is he singing it like that? sounds like a parody.

  • @PeterSokol-bl5vz
    @PeterSokol-bl5vz 2 дні тому

    Horrible rendition of this incredible song….the only period of Bowies career I did not like…his pop star turn…..voice is incredible…the arrangement is just to 80s and steals all the power of the song away.

  • @robertmiczke7337
    @robertmiczke7337 7 років тому +7

    he was a rock star not a pop singer

    • @zazoom84
      @zazoom84 5 років тому +1

      He was a popular rock star