28th March 1990 - David Bowie - London Docklands Arena

At this stage in Bowie's career, his last decent album had been what? "Let's Dance" ? Certainly there had been a couple of stinkers since: "Tonight" was sufficiently awful that it's title track had already been covered to better effect by Iggy Pop on his "The Idiot" album; and "Never Let Me Down" was an attempt to return to past conceptual splendour that simply didn't cut it - a conceit too far - and that's before we even mention Tin Machine.

So rather than have another attempt at being creative, Bowie heads out on a greatest hits tour. Nothing wrong with that per se, but this was  Bowie as human jukebox - his most popular work being performed pretty much as it appeared on record, with little discernible emotional input from the artist. This was a case of giving the public what they wanted.

That isn't to say that it was a bad show as such, it just wasn't as spectacularly good as Bowie can be. He could have been accused of going through the motions and waiting for the pay cheque at the end of the night. There was a real feeling that this could be the end and that this was maybe a farewell tour. Possibly Bowie at this stage suspected that he didn't have another good album in him. Thankfully there was to be a renaissance, just not yet!