A Reality Tour is a live album by David Bowie that was released on 25 January 2010. The album features 22 and 23 November 2003 performances in Dublin during his concert tour A Reality Tour.
The set list includes tracks spanning Bowie's 30 plus years in the music business, from The Man Who Sold the World (1970) all the way to the then current Reality (2003), along with collaborations such as "Sister Midnight" (with Iggy Pop; originally from The Idiot (1977)) and "Under Pressure" (with Queen; released as a single in 1981 and later found on Hot Space the following year). There is a bit more focus, however, on tracks from the albums released since the Earthling World Tour in 1997, Heathen (2002), and Reality, whose tracks constitute 10 of the 35 songs performed.
The only exception from his latest albums is Hours (1999); no tracks from this album were included on this release, possibly due to poor reception of the album, and no songs from the album were included in his touring repertoire. Other albums with no appearance included the cover album Pin Ups (1973), Never Let Me Down (1987), the albums produced with the band Tin Machine (Tin Machine (1989) and Tin Machine II (1991)), and Black Tie White Noise (1993). Aladdin Sane (1973) & Station to Station (1976) also made no concert appearances in the video, although songs from both albums were performed on the tour.
A notable inclusion into the performance was the set of three songs from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972) as the final encore. Though Bowie had performed the pieces many times through his career, the pieces had not been toured regularly since 1978 when the live interpretations were featured on the Stage album released that same year.
Track-list:
- A1 Rebel, Rebel
- A2 New Killer Star
- A3 Reality
- A4 Fame
- A5 Cactus
- A6 Sister Midnight
- B1 Afraid
- B2 All The Young Dudes
- B3 Be My Wife
- B4 The Loneliest Guy
- B5 The Man Who Sold the World
- B6 Sunday
- C1 Fantastic Voyage
- C2 Hallo Spaceboy
- C3 Under Pressure
- C4 Life On Mars
- C5 Battle For Britain (The Letter)
- C6 Never Get Old
- D1 Ashes To Ashes
- D2 The Motel
- D3 Loving The Alien
- D4 Changes
- D5 I'm Afraid Of Americans
- E1 Heroes
- E2 Bring Me The Disco King
- E3 Slip Away
- E4 Heathen (The Rays)
- F1 Five Years
- F2 Hang On To Yourself
- F3 Ziggy Stardust
- F4 Fall Dogs Bomb The Moon
- F5 Breaking Glass
- F6 China Girl