David Bowie - Stay - Never before seen footage from 1976 Isolar Tour

Very Rare.
These pictures of David Bowie had not been developed in 39 years and they see the light of day first now.
They were taken on april 27th 1976 in Stockholm Sweden at the Royal Tennis Hall on Davids Isolar Tour.
The film roll was forgotten and recently found and developed. The BIG SURPRISE as we didn't know what was on the roll!!!
It was my 1st Bowie concert as a 13 year old lad, and needless to say David blew my mind!!!
A few years ago I ran into a friend and we got talking about great concerts and of course I talked about this show. He looks at me and says I was there too and I recorded it!
He explained how he had lugged a big tape recorder with stereo mics, managed to get it inside the venue and taped the show. Long story short... He gave me a copy of the show... and wow!!!
To have a copy of the 1st Bowie show I'd ever seen was amazing. That meant a lot. Thank you Dante!!!
I have seen David in concert 28 times but that night was a magic night as he was on fire giving so much of himself to the audience.
Enjoy these pictures...
Fred

[@Cl4rendon]

Stay is one of my most favorite Bowie songs! He was far ahead of the game!!!

[@seangelarden8753]

I was going to say that whole album is amazing but so aren't the rest of them I played the grooves off Lodger when in college

[@davidshepherd17]

I was 15 told my parents i was staying with friends but took myself to see Bowie at Wembley Arena for this concert you can probably guess the rest.

[@bowiev2schneider58]

No 😅👍

[@mimamalist]

You did the right thing.

[@davidshepherd17]

@@mimamalist 48 years later still have my KZbin Bowie Nights.

[@Nina-dz9vx]

I wish they hadn't discovered you, even if it happened I don't think even the scolding would have taken away your excitement for seeing it live 😭😭❗

[@davidshepherd17]

No it was all cool it was my secret they thought I was with a friend I saw David do many times and now still have Bowie nights on KZbin I'm now 64 living the dream.

[@robertazulay7979]

This was the first time seeing David. It was a great concert in the Boston Garden. I got to see him 6 more times throughout my life, each time better than the one before! RIP David. I'll never forget you.

[@rosierambo144]

THIS...IS...HOT...AF. I just CANNOT describe it any other way, sorry. 🌹...( but,am I wrong?)

[@silverscat6770]

Similar. First time seeing him here. About that many times afterwards too. We are fortunate.

[@DavidBell-qq1sd]

I caught this show in LA. I saw him one other time playing backup vocals and organ for his friend Iggy. THAT was awesome. Blondie opened the show. circa 1978, Cambridge MA. Needless to say, it got "Concert of the Year".

[@MillyMiller84]

RIP to drummer Dennis Davis who passed away yesterday....

[@beckiebuist803]

Yeah, the guy was a monster player, truly a drummers drummer.

[@Rifle56]

One of my favorite all time drummers. 👍

[@bowiev2schneider58]

@@Rifle56 look back in anger davis 😍🤩

[@michaellevine2566]

Denis was awesome with Stevie wonder on musiquarium

[@wiseonwords]

What a brilliant funky rhythm section Bowie had in the Station to Station period!

[@robertmcafee4680]

Its an amazing album - i could spend an hour discussing this album with you ,

[@spencergroup]

Lots of great gems on Station to Station.

[@georgia5341]

spencergroup m

[@tonyv47]

they were known as the DAM band , Davis, Alomar & Murray

[@waldoparsnip1025]

I saw the show in 1976 at Roberts Stadium , Evansville , Indiana , and at first , we were kind of disappointed because we were wanting to see him in drag , and it was his Sinatra , no tux jacket look , but we weren't disappointed for long , great show !

[@alamc200]

Of course, he wasn't doing Ziggy Stardust anymore. Around the med 1970s he became The Thin White Duke.

[@Mist-Media]

Can you remember if he played 'Golden Years' at Evansville?

[@waldoparsnip1025]

@@Mist-Media I think so , There was a lot of green barrel and purple micro-dot ! Him and the band were great ! Saw Alice Coopers' " Welcome to My Nightmare " around the same time ! Best theatrical concert ever ! I was doing purple micro=dot at that one and sat there mesmerized the whole show ! Wow ! When he did " Only Women Bleed " he was dancing with a girl , the lights went down as he laid her on the bed , the lights came up and he was beating the hell out of her ! I didn't know they switched in the darkness ! I still get chills ! One part of the show , Alice and dancers were dancing on stage , and one at a time would twirl from the stage through a slitted curtain and in perfect timing , would appear on the screen and be gone from the stage !Rocked my world and the 14,000 other fans ! Alice is a bad dude ! Him and his wife would go to our mall before the show , he'd have a ponytail and a Callaway golf hat , nobody knew it was him , but my friends son worked at a store they went in and got his autograph . Cool dude. Sorry I "rambled on "( My Zeppelin reference ) ' My Indiana vanity license plate is LED ZEP , have a good one .

[@sweetbermudaonions60]

I am thankful I got to see David live over 35 times and he never once disappointed...but always manage to AMAZE...And yes I miss him

[@ziggystardust360]

The most mysterious tour of his career, this and Diamond Dogs. I would pay big money for a full concert video of both of those tours just sayin.

[@marks7619]

Ditto!

[@NormBa]

Saw it in 76 cap center, dc. I was 14. This album remains all alone. He was channeling something.

[@Soda_POPPERS]

Considering how the Duke himself was pretty mysterious I think the whole tour itself being a mystery kind of fits in a weird way. Still would love to see it though someday

[@Edward..de..lanndo]

Absolutely 💯 agree

[@MarkPearce-u7m]

Apparently DA Pennebaker filmed the diamond/Phillips dogs tour, never been released sadly.😢

[@rjnuzzi1648]

All of 'Station' was great, not a clunker or filler, but 'Stay' was not only a gorgeous funk-rock original, a real gem, but it should've been a hit, as it was released as a single... someone needs to resurrect this great 1976 Bowie track... Thin White Duke slays all Bowie persona...

[@augopen]

It's an opera it has SO MUCH life

[@buaidhnobas1ify]

I had the bassline running in my head all morning, then I found this. Thank you!!

[@bowiev2schneider58]

👍😅 Georges Murray 💥

[@clubmogambo3214]

One thing not discussed very much was the lighting for this Isolar Tour. I caught this tour in Chicago. Bowie, being the creative maverick that he always was, decided to go against the grain and deviate from the lighting found at almost all other major concerts, where it was always very colorful and the audience section quite dark. Bowie decided to go with an almost all-white lighting concept, which at times when all the lights were on really lit up the stage and this even broke out into the audience. At times in our concert, it actually had the feeling of daylight, it was that bright.

[@dannymiles6503]

I wish id seen him in 76,but i had to wait to the breathtaking 78 tour. Still the greatest show ive ever seen. I know what youre saying about the lighting. There were these tiny little things we were given to take, said to enhance the concert, and Wow!! Like an elevator ride to the moon at high speed. The lightshow became highly hypnotic, pulsing and flashing with the songs. Such a genius stroke by him, it took it all to another level. With the powerful locomotive intro to Station To Station and Belew's surreal guitar, i was flashing in and out of reality and just hanging on, and that vertical neonbar lightshow so stunning. I feel Bowie came close to matching the 78 tour with Reeves Gabrels' fiery guitar sound on the 96-97 shows, but 78 was so brilliant with its Heroes, Low, Station and Ziggy setlist. Great comment you gave thanks.

[@johngore7744]

Saw this show in Montreal on February 25 1976 I was 15 cost only $9.85. Great show Carlos Earl and Dennis. David was incredible. It was my first big concert and I’d been a fan already for two years and knew all his stuff. They opened with Stationtostation it sounded like a train station and fog covered the stage. Carlos Alomar had shades and a top hat and the cool opening notes for the song building and building and then this flash of orange hair and the line ‘the return of the thin white duke.....’ in that unmistakable voice I remember it like it was last night. It was almost 45 years ago. And I’m still a fan of all music.

[@adrianjae599]

@John Gore I saw the show at the Empire Pool , Wembley on Wednesday May 5th 1976 . I was also 15 , tickets were £3.75 and a bootleg album of the show was titled ‘The Wembley Wizard Touches The Dial’ ⚡️💔

[@johngore7744]

@@adrianjae599 cool. I have a bootleg from 1972 Santa Monica civic center in California. It was the Ziggy tour and they do great stuff. Waiting for The Man , Width of a Circle , sweet thing reprise and all. And most of Ziggy. My grandparents came to Montreal from the UK in 1910 both sets. They were from the North Sheffield Manchester Prestwich. I spent 5 weeks there with my parents when I was 17 (1978) god that’s a long time ago. Still got tons of family there. My granny was a Nash and born in 1892 in Manchester a family of 13. She lost a brother in ww1 and a couple moved to Australia. I wonder if I’m related , distantly to Graham Nash. Lol.

[@johngore7744]

@@adrianjae599 also when I was in the UK I remember I bought The Stones Love You Live in Windsor in a store near a pub by a stone bridge. It’s a beautiful country and diverse for its size. Torquey The Lake District the Moors. I really should go back. We got stuck in mud in a 78 Ford Granada ( the British kind ) in Castleton. Fortunately we were near a pub. Lol. Growing up my grandmother referred to it as The Mother Countrey , this would conjour up images of a very matronly looking Victoria and her vast Empire. Lol. Cheers.

[@adrianjae599]

@@johngore7744 That bootleg album was SANTA MONICA LIVE ‘72 (a mate recorded it on a cassette tape for me decades ago) ; I remember a back-street record shop in Soho back in the 70’s that sold bootlegs (under the counter) where I bought THE THIN WHITE DUKE recorded at the Nassau Coliseum NY on the 1975 Isolar tour which was acclaimed by die-hards as the best live album Bowie ‘never released’ until it officially appeared in its entirety on the deluxe box set edition of Station to Station in 2010 (it’s also on Spotify) Graham Nash hailed from Salford in Manchester so an ancestry check may reveal more. In 1910 Canada would’ve indeed been part of Victoria’s British Empire !

[@johngore7744]

@@adrianjae599 thanks for info on the Santa Monica concert. Keep listening and enjoying. Cheers.

[@sherrydixon4852]

How beautiful he was.... and he doesn't even remember making Station to Station... He forgot things we'll NEVER learn...

[@soula48]

Wonderful. I caught this show at Wembley - it was breathtaking and as people have said there is very little footage of the tour out there which makes it kind of mythical like the man himself.

[@lori5455]

No auto correct in these times. smooth raw polish of this band is tight and rockin! Thin White Duke will live forever!

[@roboravitz5572]

Great year to see voncerts,1976,saw Bowie in Frankfurt, git b to talk to his drummer during the intermission. It was a memorable time and a great year for myself,as I was graduating from High school that year in Germany

[@karinihti2919]

Saw him 1976 in Helsinki. Still remember Argentinian tangos accompanying the Bunuel movie and then Station To Station. Btw they played a very nice version of Jean Genie, the end part of chorus included some sha-la-la-la’s 😀

[@CarstenWeise]

Thanks for sharing. This was my first Bowie tour as well, and it means so much that all this stuff of the tour shows up now on the internet.

[@visionthng6971]

True Style never dies,TY& Bless U for posting this, His ' plastic soul' is as hard & warm & enduring , This is production is befitting of its contents ,I was 10 years old when these pictures were taken, My Sister had just taken Me to Studio 54 & then turned Me on to station to station & that Nov seen Iggy PoP at the Academy of Music w/ Bowie on keyboards...:)

[@suziq8714]

Thank you for sharing these with us! RIR MY STARMAN. I MISS YOU⚡️❤🎸❤🎶❤🕊❤️

[@sofialadune9351]

An artist never die , Bowie was one of them, i really love him , i'm living near herouville in France where he did 2 or 3 album in the early 70' in this castle

[@HasinaiMan]

Helluva day (days?) in the studio when the tracks for this tune were recorded and mixed on audio tape. Bowie in a very funky and soulful groove... gotta' love it!

[@clubmogambo3214]

It was kind of a spillover from his previous album, Young Americans. David still had some of that funk and soul left in him, but at the same time he was heading back to his rock roots. To me, it resulted in the perfect blend.

[@atlantaguitar9689]

Great pictures. I caught a show on this tour and was able to get up very close but alas, had no camera. It was quite bright owing to the exclusive use of white light which varied in intensity throughout the show. I could have used some sun screen and shades. Up close you could see everything on the stage very clearly - amp and PA cables, cigarette butts, beer cups, roadies standing off to the side laughing and having conversations. Great show in any case.

[@neilmaclean294]

Was still at school. Scraped the money for the train down from Glasgow with my pal John Kelly. Arrived 8th May 1976, ticketless. Managed to buy tickets for £8 each offa touts. Best eight quid I’ve ever spent. Was my first ever gig … magical memories of that day. 👏

[@shangchunsong6453]

So modest by today's standards of production yet a thousand times more indelible.

[@margareta.halliseyq1777]

David was a complex man! Love shape of his face, ears, profile! How he can alter his look as he did with ziggy°!!!! No one like him today, and never will be! Jan.20, 2022

[@pdomefx]

At the risk of appearing pedantic, this is not 'footage' it's a series of still all of which are reversed so the entire band are left handed!

[@outsidethepyramid]

+ElecTrickery I know, bollocks description. Good to see the photos but a let down none the less. kinell.

[@tom210493]

+ElecTrickery Which is why, despite the 'ok' pictures, this video should be down voted. No need for them to mislead people if they think what they have is interesting.

[@saukpuppet1592]

He did the best with what he had. What a jam!! Carlos always kills it.

[@MalquiLans]

+ElecTrickery That's how Ziggy played it ;)

[@juliabrink]

+Sauk Puppet That was actually Earl Slick playing here. (But always Carlos killed it, too.) xxx

[@K.J.734]

One funky bassline, George Murray was the man! 😎🤘❗

[@bowiev2schneider58]

Miglior Georges and Dennis 🖤

[@erwinwoodedge4885]

I was on this tour in Rotterdam - it was fab!

[@barryrahn5957]

Always loved Dennis Davis, George Murray and Carlos Alomar. Those three man - they brung the funk, and they brung the crunk! Hats off!!

[@rjnuzzi1648]

With a little editting, 'Stay' was released as a single back on '76. Why it didn't chart well is perplexing. It's one of the 3 great tracks off of 'Station' & one of Bowie's ost hard-driving "pop" tracks. Everyone is cooking on this studio recording, featuring Earl Slick's great & memorable guitar parts. This rendition is the best of the two which used this chord progression ('John I'm Only Dancing, Again). Bowie really shines here in the pre-disco mid-70's...

[@anzatzi]

Compared ot other other on riff wonders like "rebel" and "fame", its not as memorable or compelling

[@mik23276]

many people upset with the incorrect use of the word "footage". well so what, good enough one gets to see those pictures. those were great years without cellphones, anyone who was able to see the shows can consider themselves lucky.

[@stacyyoust]

I dug it

[@jackiegeritz5345]

This week dragged past me so slowly The days fell on their knees Maybe I'll take something to help me Hope someone takes after me I guess there's always some change in the weather This time I know we could get it together If I did casually mention tonight That would be crazy tonight Stay, that's what I meant to say, or do something But I never say is stay this time I really meant to so bad this time 'Cause you can never really tell when somebody Wants something you want too Heartwrecker, heartwrecker, make me delight Life is so vague when it brings someone new This time tomorrow I'll know what to do I know it's happened to you Stay, that's what I meant to say or do something But what I never say is stay this time I really meant to so badly this time 'Cause you can never really tell when somebody Wants so much to stay That's what I meant to say or do something But what I never say is stay this time I really meant to so badly this time 'Cause you can never really tell when somebody Wants something you want too Source: LyricFind Songwriters: David Bowie

[@adrienneparker8614]

fantastic band that he had......the whole package was brilliant.....

[@XxxXLoLSiaNXxxX]

Yes~ thanks for sharing. ..Please don't take any notice of those who criticise ~ sad people. .. its so good to see any footage / pics previously unseen...well done xx

[@danielroberson5421]

Thanks for sharing. I like this period because of the cool suits and hats and the music was good too.

[@danieleb6863]

Legendary tour! Incredible pictures thanks!

[@rosemarymills1671]

Fabulous footage, thanks much!

[@peterdilworth18]

I was 10 when this happened, I wish I could go back in time..

[@1974loki]

Stay live ist schwer, ein Kunstwerk

[@thevisitortjn2]

"He explained how he had lugged a big tape recorder with stereo mics, managed to get it inside the venue and taped the show. Long story short... He gave me a copy of the show." Sharing is caring, Please put it up. ; - )

[@MayaBowieJoel-Mitchell]

thevisitor I have a feeling he's lying.

[@axelgebauer799]

Thx for the pictures, Fred!

[@silverscat6770]

Saw it in Chicago. 4th row. The girl behind me hands me a bunch of polaroids. Pass them... I do, they get on the stage in front of him. Eventually opens and BAM! Totally different Dave. RIGHT as the show ended a roadie ran in front of us and pointed at her saying, you backstage!

[@danw1374]

You might want to change the title to "never before seen photos"

[@jimmyhobbs5029]

Ass kicking intro and jam. I had Station to Station on 8 track in 1976!

[@Vinca66]

Thank You ! Thank You ! Thank You ! . . . So Many Thanks ! ! ! !

[@FunkATeer-qk7hq]

ALL HAIL DAVID BOWIE 🤘🏾

[@andremeehan8796]

I was at Wembley empire pool show .May 8th 1976

[@hard.to.define]

The Thin White Duke. He was an amazing artist.

[@TealFamily_Follies]

Thank you! Thank You! Just WOW!

[@grahamherbert9328]

Oh ya absolutely mind blowing tour was there station to station empire pool wembley 1976 right down the front unbelievable black and white stage when bowie walk on stage mind blowing image absolutely a genius

[@lawrencedamatin5120]

Favorite Bowie song great rythym section saw this tour 76 old Boston garden thin white duke badass bowie

[@mrpentium]

THE BEST OF BOWIE'S MANY INCARNATIONS

[@mikewest1542]

Footage is live , not stills , was hoping for more, never mind !

[@dhyanjennings6156]

Love this song.

[@deetee9611]

Dude great story thanks for sharing - green with envy.

[@CeliaDeCastro]

love it, to see, hear him..like this.....thanks4sharing

[@rudigerp.4197]

Great Stuff from Magic David.

[@soula48]

Saw this tour at Wembley - it was life changing for the younger me. I will have pics too somewhere but these are front row beauties, makes it look like DB is playing a village hall! Everyone had glo-sticks - alien technology fron TJ Newton.

[@terrywrigley5988]

I was at empire pool in 1976 great show!!

[@dyermaker4731]

Thats amazing, did you ever find them?

[@ricardowilsonalvestimoteo]

BOWIE SEMPRE FOI O MAIS INOVADOR!!!!!!!.

[@chrissieleeeaton9981]

Hey WOW WOW I am so happy to have you still there somewhere in a cloud and a Star lolmomxoxo 💜🦁🐰🍀✌️⚡🐦🙏

[@noumine]

Lovely! Thank you!

[@kevinlakeman5043]

What a great band he had on that tour. Alomar, Murray, Heyden, Davis, Tony Kaye. Then again, when didn't he have a great band behind him from the Ziggy Stardust tour on?

[@Zopf-international]

Really great pics. Maybe one day i will release my pro-copy of Springfield 76.

[@patrickogrady4521]

kabeauregardajax well why not put up for sale. and release with credit's. cheers Paddy

[@russbroda7207]

Saw ‘em in Mtl. with a buddy. Were there to see GoldenEarring as warm-up. Both loved Bowie since.

[@TVC15ohoh]

A very well done montage of rare photos, but the title is misleading as to the content of this video. You said, "footage" and that word refers to video or film, not photos. Plus, it implies that you had film or video of the live performance of Stay. GREAT song, nonetheless, and again, terrific photos, but consider changing the title, please.

[@jackchatham9149]

Footage means video

[@lisagilbert6265]

Thanking You Fred.

[@markdavey8809]

Caught the 183 gig at the Sydney Showgrounds. I think Carlos Salazar may have been lead and played this. Fucking awsome.

[@getitherething.2653]

I envy anyone who was there :((( omg 28 times!!!! That’s so cool!!!

[@soniahanson8929]

🎉

[@afterlife4u2]

Yes annoying when people give misleading titles, should change it to photos not footage

[@synthgroovesongs]

Nice job, thank you for your efforts!

[@Budgeten-nh2vf]

Thank you!

[@PaulBlytheBowie]

Fantastic! Thank you so much. I would love to see some proper concert footage, not just the poor quality rehearsal stuff I've come across. My favourite album and Bowie look.

[@ShadyPinesMa79]

Thanks for sharing... do you think you'll ever post the concert footage?

[@sylviavan9986]

un album magistral... stay est un chef d oeuvre. de voix, de guitar. je ne m'en lasse pas. thanks. Sylvia Van Troeyen

[@giusmars2848]

Fantastico come sempre!

[@axelgebauer799]

Was für eine unglaublich geile funky Band! Davids beste Begleitband ever?

[@zararity]

The film survived pretty well over the years!

[@zararity]

***** LMAO... I'm not talking about movies, I'm talking film stock. LMAO PMSL LOL

[@norahherbie8537]

As sweet as sugar candy.love you David.rest in peace...i know you would have stayed if you could

[@necholecordova5513]

love the song and the pictures

[@maximardones8690]

fantástico álbum

[@ly9484]

🙏🥰I’❤️Bowie !!!!!!!!

[@pattycassiani1352]

Grsnde concerto..grande album...grande Bowie...love forever

[@cinziazacche1484]

Concordo con te Patty, non ci sarà’ mai più’ nessuno come lui secondo me

[@deboracosta9730]

perfection ♥♥

[@laurenirby3782]

Awesome!

[@MsJimbo1960]

Title is misleading where is the never seen before footage????

[@flyinwalenda]

Looks like Dennis Davies has a set of North projector Toms ! Wild !

[@bowieaddict3178]

Many thanks!! 💜

[@MyMartin3333]

Just enjoy the music. Stop getting in a hissy fit about description detail etc.

[@cinziazacche1484]

Forse il periodo che preferisco di Bowie…ma poi mi piacciono tutti

[@sandyyu9491]

THX!😘😘😘

[@heavymeddle28]

Aaah I was close to this concert. Lived about 10 km from this event. Only problem is that I was 5 and had no clue who he was then😭

[@robbmnro]

The music here is not from the 76 tour its from the 78 tour. On the guitar is Adrian Below!

[@patricefernandez6908]

Ladies and gentlemen ... Mister David Bowie

[@tamarabamara1]

THANK YOU!

[@johnlynch8042]

I saw this show days later at Wembley and it was pretty mindblowing on several levels. Sorry guys but these shots (rare as they are) look like you put the MainMan on in a youth centre.

[@bertlindsay]

Fantastic!!!

[@sofialadune9351]

thx for ur sharing

[@JonMatt62]

The beautiful white duke. thx