 The first part of the tour started in the United Kingdom, and went from 29 January to 7 September 1972.A show at the Toby Jug pub in Tolworth on 10 February of the same year was hugely popular, catapulting him to stardom and creating, as described by David Buckley, a "cult of Bowie".The tour lasted eighteen months, and passed through the United States and Canada; it then continued to Japan, to promote his album "Aladdin Sane" (1973).