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Thank you my friend SGT (Join to see) for posting the music video of David Bowie performing "Panic in Detroit" live at Vancouver, Canada on March 23, 1976 as part of the Isolar – 1976 Tour.
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"Certainly one of the highlights of 1973's Aladdin Sane album, and one of the hardest-driving numbers David Bowie has ever recorded, "Panic in Detroit" was written the previous year, inspired by Iggy Pop's anecdotes about life in that city during the late-'60s riots. Set to a pulsing percussive soundtrack, with a backing chorus clearly modeled on the Rolling Stones' similarly foreboding "Gimme Shelter," "Panic in Detroit" is a furious succession of musical climaxes, riddled with imagery which is both gleefully apocalyptic and knowingly mundane.
Compared with the fury of the studio version, no live rendition has ever truly hit the spot -- indeed, the one in-concert performance which has been officially released, a B-side drawn from the 1974 American tour, so degenerates into a drum solo that it is scarcely even comparable. A more focused, but similarly unfulfilling studio version was recorded in 1979 and appears among the bonus tracks on Rykodisc's reissue of Scary Monsters. The original, however, remains untouchable."


"Panic In Detroit" written by David Bowie
Lyrics
"He looked a lot like Che Guevara,
drove a diesel van
Kept his gun in quiet seclusion,
such a humble man
The only survivor of the National People's Gang
Panic in Detroit, I asked for an autograph
He wanted to stay home, I wish someone would phone

Panic in Detroit

He laughed at accidental sirens that broke the evening
gloom
The police had warned of repercussions

They followed none too soon
A trickle of strangers were all that were left alive
Panic in Detroit, I asked for an autograph
He wanted to stay home, I wish someone would phone

Panic in Detroit

Putting on some clothes I made my way to school
And I found my teacher
crouching in his overalls

I screamed and ran to smash my favorite slot machine
And jumped the silent cars that slept at traffic lights

Having scored a trillion dollars,
made a run back home

Found him slumped across the table.
A gun and me alone
I ran to the window. Looked for a plane or two
Panic in Detroit.
He'd left me an autograph
"Let me collect dust."
I wish someone would phone

Panic in Detroit"

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