David Bowie • Life On Mars & Ashes To Ashes • The Tonight Show • 3 September 1980 • 40th Anniversary

David Bowie • Life On Mars & Ashes To Ashes • The Tonight Show • 5 September 1980 • 40th Anniversary • Here’s my new clean-up of the classic David Bowie 1980 performance on The Tonight Show. The show was recorded at NBC Studios in Burbank, Los Angeles on September 3rd 1980. It was broadcast forty years ago on this day, the 5th of September 1980. • Performing with Bowie on the Tonight Show, was a one-off band. Bowie’s regular musical right-hand man, Carlos Alomar was leading the band of young up and coming musicians, who were playing with Bowie for the first, and as it turned out, the only time. The Tonight Show performance is unique in other ways. It was Bowie’s only live appearance of 1980, and the only time any Scary Monsters material was performed live, in it’s day. And the Tonight Show was one of only two live appearances he made (the other SNL, 1979) in the 5 year period between the ISOLAR II 1978 tour, and the Serious Moonlight tour in 1983. The Toni