The final concert was at Auckland's massive Western Springs (a speedway stadium).

The 74,480 strong audience was the largest ever recorded for an Australasian concert and was believed to be the largest single crowd gathering in the history of New Zealand.

The gig was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest crowd gathering per head of population anywhere in the world.




Western Springs Stadium. From David Bowie's Serious Moonlight The World Tour.



According to Bowie fan Paul from Auckland, some papers may have declared a mere 70,000 attendance but that number had swelled considerably by at least 20,000 due to people pushing the perimeter fences over.

"The bemused security guards just stood there scratching their heads before moving to assist folks over the broken fence and thereby preventing any crush injuries. It was a great show and certainly the largest by any act that I've ever been to."

~ Paul from Auckland

According to the book David Bowie's Serious Moonlight The World Tour, there were "90,000 or so, with their bonfires up on the hills around the site. Looking like Huns in the flickering light but behaving."

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The Auckland show was supported by Auckland based group Dance Exponents and Australian group Models.

The nuclear arms race was dominating world headlines, and Bowie finished the Auckland concert with an impassioned oration ("I wish our world leaders would stop their insane inability to recognise that we wish to live peacefully"), and released two white doves into the sky before the final encore.

Auckland Set list , 26 Nov, 1983 1 Look Back In Anger 2 "Heroes" 3 What In The World 4 Golden Years 5 Fashion 6 Let's Dance 7 Breaking Glass 8 Life On Mars 9 Sorrow 10 Cat People 11 China Girl 12 Scary Monsters 13 Rebel Rebel 14 White Light White Heat 15 Station To Station 16 Cracked Actor 17 Ashes To Ashes 18 Space Oddity 19 Young Americans 20 Fame 21 TVC-15 22 Star Encore 23 Stay 24 The Jean Genie 25 Modern Love

With the main tour officially over, Bowie threw a party with Polynesian dancing girls.

The last minute addition to the Serious Moonlight Tour called the "Bungle In The Jungle" (documented in the "Ricochet" video) was to be stripped down to the basics without most of the crew.....so Bowie asked the road crew to cut the huge cake shaped like the Earth.

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