Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 42 minutes ago

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My remastered AI-driven 1080p upscale of David Bowie's 50th birthday concert at Madison Square Garden, New York City in 1997. This isn't perfect by any means but might be the best-looking version available to date. The original source was apparently from a promo VHS recording of the 1997 pay-per-view Save the Children benefit TV broadcast and has no doubt been re-encoded several times since being digitised. Like other versions available online, it suffered from extremely low video quality and defects such as interlacing, haloing and blocky compression artefacts. The audio had seemingly been re-dubbed with a higher-quality recording of the concert, however it played out of sync with the video in many places. I have hopefully fixed this along with applying some very basic colour correction and grain to improve the overall detailing of the image. I have had to cut the final credits out as the playing audio of 1997 recordings 'I Can't Read' and 'Repetition' caused the entire video to be blocked due to copyright.

0:00:53 - Little Wonder
0:04:50 - The Hearts Filthy Lesson
0:09:55 - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)(with Frank Black)
0:15:28 - Fashion (with Frank Black)
0:19:10 - Telling Lies
0:24:46 - Hallo Spaceboy (with Foo Fighters)
0:30:12 - Seven Years in Tibet (with Dave Grohl)
0:36:35 - The Man Who Sold the World
0:40:29 - The Last Thing You Should Do (with Robert Smith)
0:46:04 - Quicksand (with Robert Smith)
0:51:02 - Battle for Britain (The Letter)
0:55:41 - The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (As Beauty)
1:01:24 - I'm Afraid of Americans (with Sonic Youth)
1:06:55 - Looking for Satellites
1:12:18 - Under Pressure
1:16:18 - "Heroes"
1:22:34 - Queen Bitch (with Lou Reed)
1:26:12 - I'm Waiting for the Man (with Lou Reed)
1:30:50 - Dirty Blvd. (with Lou Reed)
1:35:23 - White Light/White Heat (with Lou Reed)
1:39:33 - Moonage Daydream
1:45:18 - Happy Birthday
1:46:51 - All the Young Dudes (with Billy Corgan)
1:50:28 - The Jean Genie (with Billy Corgan)
1:55:36 - Space Oddity