Live Santa Monica '72

Live Santa Monica '72
Live album by
Released30 June 2008 (2008-06-30)
Recorded20 October 1972 (1972-10-20)
VenueSanta Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA
GenreGlam rock
Length74:21
LabelEMI
David Bowie chronology
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(2007)
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LiveAndWell.com
(1999)
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(2008)
VH1 Storytellers
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
NME8/10[2]
Pitchfork Media7.7/10[3]
Rolling Stone[4]

Live Santa Monica '72 is a live album by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie. It was released on 30 June 2008 (2008-06-30) in the United Kingdom and 22 July 2008 (2008-07-22) in the United States. It is the official release of KMET FM's radio broadcast, then bootleg album and – later – semi-legal release Santa Monica '72, recorded at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium during the Ziggy Stardust Tour.

By November 2008 the album had sold 10,000 copies in US.[5]

  1. ^ Live Santa Monica '72 at AllMusic
  2. ^ Thornton, Anthony (1 July 2008). "David Bowie – 'Live: Santa Monica '72' review". NME. Archived from the original on 4 October 2012. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  3. ^ "David Bowie: Five Years 1969–1973 Album Review – Pitchfork". Archived from the original on 6 February 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  4. ^ "Rolling Stone Music | Album Reviews". Rollingstone.com. Archived from the original on 29 April 2009. Retrieved 28 February 2012.
  5. ^ admin (21 November 2008). "Ask Billboard: Girls Aloud, David Bowie, Brits". Billboard. Archived from the original on 12 May 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2017.