{"id":29622,"date":"2024-05-30T18:02:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T18:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-may-30-1987-david-bowie-kicked-off-his-glass-spider-tour\/"},"modified":"2024-05-30T18:02:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T18:02:46","slug":"on-this-day-may-30-1987-david-bowie-kicked-off-his-glass-spider-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-may-30-1987-david-bowie-kicked-off-his-glass-spider-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, May 30, 1987: David Bowie kicked off his Glass Spider Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-23\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag_3.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, May 30, 1987 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Rocker\u00a0<strong>David Bowie\u00a0<\/strong>kicked off his Glass Spider tour in support of his album\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Never Let Me Down<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The tour was known for its elaborate set design, which included what looked like a giant spider with light-up legs. It was described at the time as \u201cthe largest touring set ever.\u201d It took 43 trucks to move and weighed an estimated 360 tons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bowie was joined by his old schoolmate\u00a0<strong>Peter Frampton <\/strong>on guitar, as well as\u00a0dancers that Bowie co-choreographed with\u00a0<strong>Toni Basil<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In addition to songs from\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Never Let Me Down<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, the set list included such Bowie classics as \u201cChina Girl,\u201d \u201cFashion,\u201d \u201cHeroes,\u201d \u201cLet\u2019s Dance,\u201d \u201cFame\u201d and \u201cModern Love.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, May 30, 1987 &#8230; Rocker\u00a0David Bowie\u00a0kicked off his Glass Spider tour in support of his album\u00a0Never Let Me Down. The tour was known for its elaborate set design, which included what looked like a giant spider with light-up legs. It was described at the time as \u201cthe<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-may-30-1987-david-bowie-kicked-off-his-glass-spider-tour\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}