LiveAndWell.com

LiveAndWell.com is a 1999 limited edition live album by David Bowie. It was not available commercially and could only be acquired by being subscribed to BowieNet at the time. The album is made up of recordings from the 1997 Earthling Tour, featuring songs from the albums Outside (1995) and Earthling (1997)^[1]

LiveAndWell.com
Live album by David Bowie
Released	November 1999 (1999-11) (original release) January 15, 2021 (2021-01-15) (re-release)
Recorded	Paradiso, Amsterdam (10 June 1997) Phoenix Festival, Long Marston Airfield, England (19 June 1996) Radio City Music Hall, New York (15 October 1997) Metropolitan, Rio de Janeiro (2 November 1997)
Length	57:17
Label	Risky Folio
Producer	Reeves Gabrels, Mark Plati, George Marino
David Bowie chronology
Hours (1999) LiveAndWell.com (1999) Bowie at the Beeb (2000)
No Trendy Réchauffé (Live Birmingham 95) (2020) LiveAndWell.com (re-release) (2021) Look at the Moon! (Live Phoenix Festival 97) (2021)

In late 2020, it was announced that the album would be released publicly for the first time on 15 January 2021.^[2]

Background

Following the successful Earthling Tour, Bowie, Reeves Gabrels and Mark Plati mixed a live album, intending it for a commercial release. However, Virgin, Bowie's label at the time, scrapped the release when it was submitted to them in late 1998.^[3] During the mixing of this live album, Bowie and the band also recorded "Fun" and a cover of Bob Dylan's "Tryin' to Get to Heaven".^[3] Some of these live tracks, as well as a remix of the song "Fun", were then released to subscribers of BowieNet as downloads before being released as the album LiveAndWell.com.^[3] The cover of "Tryin' to Get to Heaven" was played once on a Spanish radio station and was unavailable for over 20 years^[4] until its release in early 2021.^[5] "Fun" remained unreleased for over 20 years until it was included on Is It Any Wonder? (2020).

The track listing for the release contains an error according to Bowie biographer Nicholas Pegg: "The Hearts Filthy Lesson", while being listed as being recorded in 1997's Phoenix Festival, is in fact from the Phoenix Festival the year prior.^[3]

Releases

A second release of the CD in 2000 came with a bonus disc made up of four rare remixes, which has not been re-released since. The album was digitally reissued on 15 May 2020 without this second CD of songs, although the "Fun" remix was released as a separate digital download on its own.^[6] The digital re-issue included two tracks recorded from the Earthling Tour when Bowie's band performed under the pseudonym "Tao Jones Index".^[7]

In January 2021, LiveAndWell.com was re-released on vinyl and CD, again without the second CD of remixes^[2] as part of the six-album set Brilliant Live Adventures.^[8]

Reviews

Pegg called the album a "beautifully mixed and hugely impressive memento of Bowie's mid-1990s live experience".^[3]

Track listing

Disc 1

No.	Title	Original Album	Length
1.	"I'm Afraid of Americans" (Live at Radio City Music Hall, New York, 15 October 1997)	Earthling	5:14
2.	"The Hearts Filthy Lesson" (Live at Long Marston, Phoenix Festival, 18 July 1996 (track listing incorrectly states the date as 20 July 1997))	Outside	5:37
3.	"I'm Deranged" (Live from Amsterdam, Paradiso, 10 June 1997)	Outside	7:12
4.	"Hallo Spaceboy" (Live from Rio de Janeiro, Metropolitan, 2 November 1997)	Outside	5:12
5.	"Telling Lies" (Live from Amsterdam, Paradiso, 10 June 1997)	Earthling	5:14
6.	"The Motel" (Live from Amsterdam, Paradiso, 10 June 1997)	Outside	5:49
7.	"The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (as Beauty)" (Live from Rio de Janeiro, Metropolitan, 2 November 1997)	Outside	5:48
8.	"Battle for Britain (The Letter)" (Live at Radio City Music Hall, New York, 15 October 1997)	Earthling	4:35
9.	"Seven Years in Tibet" (Live at Radio City Music Hall, New York, 15 October 1997)	Earthling	6:19
10.	"Little Wonder" (Live at Radio City Music Hall, New York, 15 October 1997)	Earthling	6:19

Disc 2 (Remixes)

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Fun (Dillinja mix)"	5:52
2.	"Little Wonder (Danny Saber Dance mix)"	5:32
3.	"Dead Man Walking (Moby mix 1)"	7:32
4.	"Telling Lies (Paradox mix)"	5:11

Personnel

• David Bowie – vocals, guitar, saxophone
• Reeves Gabrels – guitar, vocals
• Gail Ann Dorsey – bass, vocals, keyboards
• Zack Alford – drums
• Mike Garson – keyboards, synthesizer, piano
• Live show sound engineers;
• Michael Prowda – monitors
• Steve Guest – FOH

References

1. "LIVEANDWELL.COM is streaming now". 16 May 2020. Archived from the original on 17 November 2020. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
2. "Brilliant Live Adventures Part 3 - LIVEANDWELL.COM". 11 December 2020. Archived from the original on 11 December 2020. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
3. Pegg 2016, p. 438.
4. O'Leary 2019, pp. 442–443.
5. @DavidBowieReal (16 December 2020). "To mark what would have been David Bowie's 74th birthday, two previously unreleased cover versions, John Lennon's MOTHER and Bob Dylan's TRYIN' TO GET TO HEAVEN, will be released as a limited edition 7" single on 8th January next year" (Tweet). Retrieved 16 December 2020 – via Twitter.
6. "Three 90s Bowie shows being made available to stream soon". Archived from the original on 14 May 2020. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
7. Moore, Sam (15 May 2020). "Listen to David Bowie's 'LiveAndWell.com' live album as it makes major streaming debut". Archived from the original on 22 January 2021. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
8. "David Bowie Brilliant Live Adventures Six Album Series Kicks Off October 30". 2 October 2020. Archived from the original on 16 September 2021. Retrieved 24 December 2020.

Sources

• Pegg, Nicholas (2016). The Complete David Bowie (revised and updated ed.). London: Titan Books. ISBN 978-1-78565-365-0.
• O'Leary, Chris (2019). Ashes to Ashes The Songs of David Bowie 1976–2016. Repeater Books. ISBN 9781912248308.