After finally achieving superstar status in 1983 with the album , David Bowie entered a time of big stadium tours. The 1987 one was called the Glass Spider Tour, whose performance at the Sydney Entertainment Center is recorded on this DVD. It is a moment in Bowie's career when he slowly loses contact with the vanguard of music. The track list can be read as an impressive series of world hits and
… the show is taken care of down to the last detail. But David Bowie has clearly outgrown the underground, his music has become mass entertainment. It is always a pleasure to see such a charismatic performer at work, but it never stimulates, let alone excites, this professional show through and through. (MS)more
