this live performance film from the Serious Moonlight tour is Bowie at his finest...no gimmicks...the music stands on it's own...Bowie and his band are flawless...an outstanding collection of all his greatest songs...have watched this concert over and over and it never gets tired...the performance is very energetic and fresh...the stage costumes are spot on for the time...(mid 80's)...featuring one of the best recordings of Young American ever recorded...Modern Love..Fashion...Heros..Look Back in Anger...this film is an excellent archive of Bowies talent and enduring style...also note the title related surprise during the closing number of the concert...

I remember buying this one a two VHS cassette pack in 1987 when I went to London, having always been a huge Bowie fan I had to have those two..The show is awesome, for being in 1983 - it shows Bowie on the tour he would later become the most tired of, The Serious Moonlight tour, but tour to promote the album Let's Dance, featuring huge hits like of course Let's Dance, and China Girl...all songs he would later regret having written, yet still performs on tours for some reason..A terrific show, a definite must-GET if you're a Bowie fan..Cannot really rate it as a film, but the production value is very high and therefore, for the sheer entertainment it delivers: 8/10

This amazing concert was filmed in Vancouver over two nights, originally released on HBO and then parlayed into the home video market. If anybody wanted to see Bowie at his commercial peak (at the time he was signed to EMI with a whopping $3 mil contract--the highest ever to date for a rock act) this was the chance if you missed him on his whirlwind Europe/US/Oceania/Asian globetrot.Hot on the heels of "Modern Love," "Let's Dance" and "China Girl", plus a few odds and ends recorded in between this tour and his previous 1979 fluorescent light cage-themed jaunt, this act was clearly made for a video-age audience. With "Blade-Runner" inspired floor-to-ceiling clear plastic light columns, the groundbreaking use of vari-lights, and the band in costumes reminiscent of a 1920's Hong Kong dockyard, you'd think that would be enough eye candy for a 90-minute show. But the video goes one further with an intro filmed at a Hong Kong dockyard with the band in their "silly suits", and a bevy of asian models paid to fill up the front two rows to add spice to the entire theme. For a tour of that nature to blow out Duran Duran, The Police and Michael Jackson's tours as the most attended of 1983, you gotta mean business.And Bowie not only blew out the rock world with the staged theatrics, he rocked the house with his trademark sound, blending funk, soul, experimental synth and glam rock into one big gumbo pot. Who else back then would have cleverly utilized Chic's drummer and LaBelle's bassist, horns from the Tower of Power, vocalists from Harry Chapin's recording sessions, in addition to his longtime guitar sidemen from the Diamond Dogs days? You will see Bowie as you've never seen before, making all of his previous mutations pale in comparison (plus a few afterward). On top of that, he is smiling and enjoying himself throughout the entire night. Utter charisma.

There are some great Bowie songs on this video but everything is far too slick. This was filmed at a time when Bowie was cashing in on his hit album and playing all his hits in a sanitized manner. Rent the Ziggy Stardust movie instead.