David Bowie Cracked Actor Live at the Universal Amphitheatre 09, 05, 1974

David Bowie Cracked Actor Live at the Universal Amphitheatre 09, 05, 1974 Cracked Actor was originally a song from David Bowie s 1973 album, Aladdin Sane. It was subsequently performed on the 1974 Diamond Dogs tour, and was included on the David Live album. Like most of the older material played on that tour, Cracked Actor was rearranged to suit Bowie s new Soul Man direction. Some of the rearrangements fared better than others, in my opinion. In the case of Cracked Actor, I love what they did with it, especially when the performance aspect is seen. For the 1974 Diamond Dogs tour Bowie removed Cracked Actor from its backroom origins and staged it entirely within an actors fevered mind: he wore a cape and sunglasses and sang to a skull in his hand, a la Hamlet, then Frenchkissed the A curse on Los Angeles, Cracked Actor would rebound on Bowie: it became the title of a 1974 documentary chronicling Bowie living in LA at his lowest state, redu