Editing Diamond Dogs (section)

===Tour===
{{Main article|Diamond Dogs Tour}}
[[File:Bowie-DD-1974-3.jpg|thumb|upright|right|alt=Bowie with red hair man looking to the left holding a microphone and wearing a red and white fur coat|Bowie performing during the Diamond Dogs Tour in July 1974]]
Bowie supported the album on the Diamond Dogs Tour, whose first leg lasted from 14&nbsp;June to 20&nbsp;July 1974. Co-designed and constructed by Chris Langhart, it featured elaborate set-pieces and cost $250,000. [[Fritz Lang]]'s ''[[Metropolis (1927 film)|Metropolis]]'' (1927) and [[Robert Wiene]]'s ''[[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari]]'' (1920) influenced the tour's design, primarily due to Bowie's interest in [[German Expressionism (cinema)|German expressionism]].{{sfn|Pegg|2016|p=557}} The tour's second leg, from 2&nbsp;September to 1&nbsp;December 1974, has been nicknamed the Soul Tour, because of the influence of the soul music Bowie had begun recording for ''Young Americans'' in August. The shows were altered heavily, and no longer featured elaborate set-pieces, partly because Bowie had tired of the design and wanted to explore the new sound he was creating. Bowie dropped songs from the previous leg, while he added new ones—some from ''Young Americans''.{{sfn|Pegg|2016|p=562}}

In early September, director [[Alan Yentob]] filmed a documentary that depicts Bowie on the tour in Los Angeles, using a mixture of sequences filmed in limousines, hotels and concert footage, most of which was taken from a show there at [[Universal Amphitheatre]] on 2&nbsp;September.{{sfn|Pegg|2016|pp=639–640}} Broadcast on [[BBC One|BBC1]] in the UK on 26&nbsp;January 1975, ''[[Cracked Actor]]'' is notable as a primary source of footage of the Diamond Dogs Tour, and for showing Bowie's declining mental state during this period because of his growing cocaine addiction.{{sfn|Pegg|2016|pp=639–640}} After seeing an advanced screening of the film, the director [[Nicolas Roeg]] immediately contacted Bowie to discuss a role in ''[[The Man Who Fell to Earth]]'' (1976).{{sfn|Pegg|2016|pp=639–640}}

Bowie played all of the album's songs except "We Are the Dead" on the tour,{{sfn|Pegg|2016|p=303}} performances of which have been released on three live albums: ''[[David Live]]'' (1974), ''[[Cracked Actor (Live Los Angeles '74)|Cracked Actor]]'' (2017) and ''[[I'm Only Dancing (The Soul Tour 74)]]'' (2020).<ref>{{cite web|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/david-live-mw0000033632|title=''David Live'' – David Bowie|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=3 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424115457/https://www.allmusic.com/album/david-live-mw0000033632|archive-date=24 April 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Randle|first=Chris|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/david-bowie-cracked-actor-live-los-angeles-74/|title=David Bowie: ''Cracked Actor (Live Los Angeles '74)''|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|date=29 June 2017|access-date=10 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170711225233/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/david-bowie-cracked-actor-live-los-angeles-74/|archive-date=11 July 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=I'm Only Dancing for Record Store Day 2020 |url=https://www.davidbowie.com/blog/2020/2/19/im-only-dancing-for-record-store-day-2020 |website=David Bowie Official Website |access-date=31 October 2020 |date=19 February 2020 |archive-date=18 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418032903/https://www.davidbowie.com/blog/2020/2/19/im-only-dancing-for-record-store-day-2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> "Rebel Rebel" featured on almost every later Bowie tour,{{sfn|Pegg|2016|pp=221–223}} "Diamond Dogs" was performed for the [[Isolar – 1976 Tour|Isolar]], [[Outside Tour|Outside]] and [[A Reality Tour]]s,{{sfn|Pegg|2016|pp=74–75}} and "Big Brother/Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family" was resurrected in 1987 for the [[Glass Spider Tour]],{{sfn|Pegg|2016|pp=59–60}} which itself was heavily influenced by the Diamond Dogs tour.<ref name=InFashion>{{cite magazine|last=Morse|first=Steve|title=David Bowie (Cover Story)|magazine=In Fashion Magazine|volume=3|issue=10|date=July–August 1987|pages=151, 153}}</ref> The Diamond Dogs Tour has had a lasting legacy. Sandford says the tour turned Bowie from a "novelty act" into a "superstar".{{sfn|Sandford|1997|p=126}} Spitz writes it was highly influential on future tours with large and elaborate set pieces, including [[Parliament-Funkadelic]]'s Mothership Connection tour, [[Elvis Presley]]'s Vegas period, the 1990s tours of [[U2]] and [[Madonna]], and [['N Sync]], the [[Backstreet Boys]], [[Britney Spears]] and [[Kanye West]]'s 2008 [[Glow in the Dark Tour]].{{sfn|Spitz|2009|p=237}}