“He says to me, ‘Keep vamping, just jam,’ while he’s having a heart attack. Then he started grabbing his chest.” The show that ended David Bowie’s touring career — and the song that became his last hit

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David Bowie worked with many guitarists throughout his long career, from Mick Ronson to Carlos Alomar, Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew and Reeves Gabrels. That’s when I got called in.”Earl Slick was not a constant in David Bowie’s universe. The music from Slick’s latter tenures with Bowie is generously chronicled on the upcoming box set David Bowie 6. Earl Slick and Bowie perform a warm-up show for the A Reality Tour, Poughkeepsie, New York, August 19, 2003. We’re gonna take a few days off.’” — Earl SlickThe A Reality Tour was Bowie’s last and, many think, one of his best.