20.08.1972
UK, London, The Rainbow Theatre
Ziggy live at the Rainbow 1972
good / vg Audience

01. Ode to Joy [0:31]
02. Lady Stardust [3:28]
03. Hang Onto Yourself [2:51]
04. Ziggy Stardust [3:18]
05. Life On Mars [3:57]
06. The Supermen [3:01]
07. Changes [3:36]
08. Five Years [5:12]
09. Space Oddity [5:08]
10. Andy Warhol [4:22]
11. My Death [5:51]
12. Width of a Circle (Cut) [5:35]
13. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud [4:31]
14. Starman [4:12]
15. Moonage Daydream [5:09]
16. Queen Bitch [3:06]
17. Suffragette City [3:26]
18. White Light White Heat [3:47]
19. Waiting For The Man [12:01]

Total Running Time [1:23:11]

Lineage: Silver disc --->Soundforge --->Flac 8 --->MWP

Notes:
A phenominal audience recording for the period; from the second night of the famous "Rainbow" shows, rumoured to have been recorded by a mate of Woody Woodmansey. This was recently sent to me on CDR by Bofinken who asked if I could clean it up a bit and torrent it. To be perfectly honest it was so good I had very little to do. I cleaned off a tiny bit of hiss, removed a few crackles and pops then balanced the volume between tracks and channels. There is a cut in "Width of a Circle", the discs had the missing section badly replaced by a section from the officially released "Ziggy Stardust - The Motion Picture", this I obviously removed.

In my opinion this is as good if not better than the famous Maloney Boston recording and must rank as one of the best Ziggy audience recordings. Part of this show has been booted as "Rainbow Theatre" and complete as "Rainbow - The Magic Theatre", It is certainly an upgrade on both of these. The recording was also remasterd and torrented a few years back as "Up yours Reg" by Downunder2 (Steve), I haven't heard this but I'd be suprised if this is any worse.

The running time is annoyingly just over that of a standard disc, how you wish to split it is up to you, the artwork suggest after "My death",  I actually burnt it complete on a 90 min CDR (Be warned: 90 min discs will play on most PC's but not on most home stereos)

A big thankyou to Bofinken for the discs and Steve for the additional background info. If you have this show already, I'd love to know how it compares. If not, I know your going to enjoy this.