. When “Hunky Dory” arrived in 1971, legendary institution WMMS became one of the first radio stations in the country to put Bowie’s music into heavy rotation.
Cementing Cleveland’s relationship with Ziggy Stardust, Bowie would embark on his first tour of the U.S. following the release of “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” in 1972, choosing Cleveland’s Music Hall as his first stop.covers that entire concert and more than a dozen stops Bowie made in the Cleveland area up until his final tour in 1972.
On hand for the live podcast were Billy Bass, the WMMS programmer who insisted Bowie’s music be put in heavy rotation in 1971, photographer Anastasia Pantsios, who shot that 1972 gig as well as the “Serious Moonlight Tour” in 1983 and the “Sound+Vision Tour” in 1990 , and Thomas Mulready, founder of CoolCleveland walking David Bowie encyclopedia.
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