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Liveandwell.com is a 1999 limited edition live album by David Bowie
David Bowie
David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

. It is 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 Earthling
Earthling (album)
Earthling is an album by David Bowie released in February 1997 via BMG. The album showcases an electronica-influenced sound partly inspired by the Industrial and drum and bass culture of the 1990s.-Album background and development:...

(1997) and 1. Outside (1995).
A second release of the CD in 2000 came with a bonus disc made up of four rare remixes, one being the song "Fun", which was itself not released commercially.

Disc one

  1. "I'm Afraid of Americans
    I'm Afraid of Americans
    "I'm Afraid of Americans" is a song and single by David Bowie from the 1997 album Earthling. The song, co-written by Bowie and Brian Eno, was originally written during Bowie's studio sessions for the 1995 album Outside but was not released until a rough mix appeared on the soundtrack to the film...

    " (from Earthling
    Earthling (album)
    Earthling is an album by David Bowie released in February 1997 via BMG. The album showcases an electronica-influenced sound partly inspired by the Industrial and drum and bass culture of the 1990s.-Album background and development:...

    )
    – 5:14
  2. "The Hearts Filthy Lesson
    The Hearts Filthy Lesson
    "The Hearts Filthy Lesson" is a song by David Bowie, from his 1995 album Outside, and issued as a single ahead of the album. It showcased Bowie's new, industrial-influenced sound. The lack of an apostrophe in the title is deliberate. Lyrically, the single connects with the rest of the album, with...

    " (from Outside) – 5:37
  3. "I'm Deranged
    I'm Deranged
    "I'm Deranged" is a song written by David Bowie and Brian Eno in 1995 for the album Outside. Musically and lyrically, it shares many themes with "Look Back in Anger" from Lodger , including the appearance of an angel figure before an artist...

    " (from Outside) – 7:12
  4. "Hallo Spaceboy
    Hallo Spaceboy
    "Hallo Spaceboy" is a song by David Bowie from his 1995 album Outside, and was issued as a single in 1996. Bowie and Brian Eno co-wrote the song...

    " (from Outside) – 5:12
  5. "Telling Lies
    Telling Lies
    "Telling Lies" is a single by David Bowie written in 1996 and in 1997 released for the album Earthling.Three versions of "Telling Lies" were released on beginning September 11, 1996 — one version was released for each of three weeks — constituting the first ever downloadable single by a major artist...

    " (from Earthling) – 5:14
  6. "The Motel" (from Outside) – 5:49
  7. "The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (as Beauty)" (from Outside) – 5:48
  8. "Battle for Britain (The Letter)" (from Earthling) – 4:35
  9. "Seven Years in Tibet
    Seven Years in Tibet (song)
    "Seven Years in Tibet" is a song and single by David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels from the 1997 album Earthling.A version with lyrics in Mandarin was also recorded...

    " (from Earthling) – 6:19
  10. "Little Wonder
    Little Wonder
    "Little Wonder" is a song and single by David Bowie, from the 1997 album Earthling. It was the album's biggest hit, reaching number 14 in The United Kingdom and topping the charts in Japan.-Background:...

    " (from Earthling) – 6:19

Disc two (remixes)

  1. "Fun (Dillinja
    Dillinja
    Dillinja, is an English drum and bass DJ, record producer and entrepreneur.-History:...

     mix)" – 5:52
  2. "Little Wonder (Danny Saber Dance mix)" – 5:32
  3. "Dead Man Walking
    Dead Man Walking (song)
    "Dead Man Walking" is a song written by David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels and released as single from the 1997 album Earthling. It was a number 32 hit in the UK....

    " (Moby
    Moby
    Richard Melville Hall , better known by his stage name Moby, is an American musician, DJ, and photographer. He is known mainly for his sample-based electronic music and his outspoken liberal political views, including his support of veganism and animal rights.Moby gained attention in the early...

     mix 1)" – 7:32
  4. "Telling Lies (Paradox mix)" – 5:11

Recordings

  • "I'm Afraid of Americans", "Battle for Britain", "Seven Years in Tibet" and "Little Wonder" were recorded at the Radio City Music Hall
    Radio City Music Hall
    Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue located in New York City's Rockefeller Center. Its nickname is the Showplace of the Nation, and it was for a time the leading tourist destination in the city...

    , New York City, concert in October. "Battle for Britain" ends with Mike Garson
    Mike Garson
    Mike Garson is an American pianist, most notable for his work with David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Billy Corgan, Free Flight, and The Smashing Pumpkins.- Early career :...

     playing a small part of the intro to the older Bowie song, "Time
    Time (David Bowie song)
    "Time" is a song by David Bowie. Written in New Orleans in November 1972 during the American leg of his first Ziggy Stardust tour, it was released as the opening track on Side Two of the album Aladdin Sane in April 1973...

    ".
  • "I'm Deranged", "Telling Lies" and "The Motel" were recorded at the Paradiso
    Paradiso (Amsterdam)
    Paradiso is an iconic rock music venue and cultural center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.-History:It is housed in a converted former church building that dates from the nineteenth century and that was used until 1965 as the meeting hall for a liberal Dutch religious group known as the "Vrije...

    , Amsterdam, concert in June. "I'm Deranged" was a reworked version based on the Jungle Mix released on the bonus disk from 1.OUTSIDE and some versions of the "Dead Man Walking
    Dead Man Walking (song)
    "Dead Man Walking" is a song written by David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels and released as single from the 1997 album Earthling. It was a number 32 hit in the UK....

    " single.
  • "The Hearts Filthy Lesson" was recorded at the Phoenix Festival
    Phoenix Festival
    The Phoenix Festival was set up by Vince Power of the Mean Fiddler Music Group in 1993 as an alternative to the established Glastonbury and Reading Festivals...

    , England, in July. The band went under the pseudonym Tao Jones Index, with no spotlights on Bowie; instead, they performed in darkness with dry ice and strobe lights. Tao Jones Index, pronounced like Dow Jones
    Dow Jones Industrial Average
    The Dow Jones Industrial Average , also called the Industrial Average, the Dow Jones, the Dow 30, or simply the Dow, is a stock market index, and one of several indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company co-founder Charles Dow...

     Index, is a reference to Bowie's birth name (Jones) and his ongoing fascination with Eastern philosophy (evident on Earthling as well as in the video for "Seven Years in Tibet").
  • "Hallo Spaceboy" and "Voyeur of Utter Destruction" were recorded at the Metropolitan, Rio de Janeiro, in November.

Personnel

  • David Bowie – vocals, guitar, saxophone
    Saxophone
    The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...

  • Reeves Gabrels
    Reeves Gabrels
    Reeves Gabrels is an American guitarist, known for virtuosity, versatility, and originality. His compositions and improvisations defy genre and "explore sonic extremes with a great, adaptive intuition for what each song needs most."...

     – guitar, vocals
  • Gail Ann Dorsey
    Gail Ann Dorsey
    Gail Ann Dorsey is an American musician considered one of the premier bass guitarists and vocalists within the alternative rock scene. With a distinguished career as a session musician, it has been most notably her long association performing in David Bowie's band, from 1995 to the present day,...

     – bass, vocals, keyboards
    Musical keyboard
    A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the...

  • Zachary Alford – drums
  • Mike Garson
    Mike Garson
    Mike Garson is an American pianist, most notable for his work with David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Billy Corgan, Free Flight, and The Smashing Pumpkins.- Early career :...

    – keyboards, synthesizer, piano
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