Actor Richard Harrison as Lee ‘Ringo’ Barton gives me ever so slightly Tin Machine-era David Bowie vibes in this illustration for the soundtrack of the film $100,000 for Ringo (1965)
David Bowie - Rebel Rebel (Original Mix) [Official Audio]
...The original tape of Rebel Rebel (which had been missing since the mid-1970s), has now been discovered and remastered for this special one-track digital single.
Preceding the album by more than three months, Rebel Rebel peaked at #5 on the official UK singles chart. The original single mix was substituted by the shorter, ‘phased’ US single version in North America, featuring a new arrangement and overdubbed vocals. The album originally peaked at #1 on the official UK album chart and #5 on the Billboard album chart in the US....(Posted on YouTube, 24th May 2019).
...Just in case one or two might not have heard this version...It's really great. Chunkier, grittier, thicker.
DAVID BOWIE Let's Dance...Super-rare sealed Limited Edition 2015 EU-pressed Yellow Vinyl 7" made exclusively for the ACMI "David Bowie Is" Exhibition which took place in Melbourne, Australia & ran from 16th July- 1st November that year, originally only available if you attended the event & were prepared to queue for it! Features a unique coupling of the Single Version & Live Version, custom sticker sealed with the green hype sticker, unopened & unplayed in a clear pvc sleeve. An instant collectable & superb investment piece, with only 500 copies made.
...Due out 14th December...I have no idea how good this will be, but at £21.99 hardback, might just be worth a punt, and will possibly make a very nice little Christmas stocking filler!..😎
DAVID BOWIE Moonage Daydream - 2023 UK/EU limited edition triple album 3-LP set, the musical accompaniment to the critically acclaimed movie 'Moonage Daydream' by Brett Morgen, now available across three black vinyl LP records. Featuring unheard versions, live tracks and mixes, created exclusively for the film. Housed inside a deluxe tri-fold picture sleeve.
The companion albums feature songs spanning Bowie’s career and include previously unheard material, unique mixes created for the film, and this release, along with dialogue from Bowie himself. Highlights include a previously unreleased live medley of 'The Jean Genie / Love Me Do / The Jean Genie’ recorded live at the final Ziggy Stardust concert at Hammersmith Odeon in 1973, featuring Jeff Beck on guitar. Other rarities include an early version of the Hunky Dory favourite ‘Quicksand’ and a previously unreleased live version of ‘Rock ’n’ Roll with Me’ from the legendary 1974 ’Soul Tour’.
LP1
Side 1
1 David Bowie - “Time… one of the most complex expressions…”
2 David Bowie - Ian Fish U.K. Heir (Moonage Daydream Mix 1)
3 David Bowie - Hallo Spaceboy (Remix Moonage Daydream Edit)
4 David Bowie - Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud (Live) [Stereo]
5 David Bowie - All the Young Dudes (Live) [Stereo]
6 David Bowie - Oh! You Pretty Things (Live) [Stereo]
7 David Bowie - Life On Mars? (2016 Mix – Moonage Daydream Edit)
8 David Bowie - Moonage Daydream (Live) [Stereo]
LP1
Side 2
1 David Bowie - Medley: The Jean Genie / Love Me Do / The Jean Genie (Live) [feat. Jeff Beck]
2 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - The Light (Excerpt)
3 David Bowie - Warszawa (Live Moonage Daydream Edit)
4 David Bowie - Quicksand (2021 Mix – Early Version)
5 David Bowie - Medley: Future Legend / Diamond Dogs Intro / Cracked Actor
LP2
Side 1
1 David Bowie - Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me (Live)
2 David Bowie - Aladdin Sane (Moonage Daydream Edit)
3 David Bowie - Subterraneans (2017 Remaster)
4 David Bowie - Space Oddity (Moonage Daydream Mix)
5 David Bowie - V-2 Schneider (2017 Remaster)
LP2
Side 2
1 David Bowie - Sound And Vision (Moonage Daydream Mix)
2 David Bowie - A New Career In A New Town (Moonage Daydream Mix)
3 David Bowie - Word On A Wing (Moonage Daydream Mix Excerpt)
4 David Bowie - “Heroes” (Live Moonage Daydream Edit)
5 David Bowie - D.J. (Moonage Daydream Mix)
6 David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes (Moonage Daydream Mix)
7 David Bowie - Move On (Moonage Daydream A Cappella Mix Edit)
8 David Bowie - Moss Garden (Moonage Daydream Edit)
I've cropped-in this original Kevin Cummins photograph of Bowie (NYC) 1997 and given it a bit more of an old-school 'Agfa film look'...I think it takes away something of the overall context of that shot, but makes it more focused as a Bowie street-portrait.
DAVID BOWIE Metrobolist (2020 UK/EU limited edition 9-track LP pressed on 180-gram Gold Vinyl, individually hand-numbered on the red centre label, limited to just 50 copies and randomly distributed among the black and white vinyl variants. The gold vinyl records are numbered 1971 to 2020, this example is number 2003.
...Yours, for £3000.
DAVID BOWIE - 'METROBOLIST’ (AKA ‘THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD') 50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION
REMIXED BY TONY VISCONTI WITH ARTWORK BASED ON ORIGINAL TITLE & DESIGN
RELEASED 6th NOVEMBER, 2020 ON LIMITED VINYL AND CD FORMATS, ALSO FOR STREAMING AND DOWNLOAD AT STANDARD AND HIGH RESOLUTION DOWNLOAD (96kHz/24bit)
Parlophone Records is proud to announce release details for METROBOLIST (aka THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD) 50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION to be released on 6th NOVEMBER, 2020.
This November sees the 50th Anniversary of the release of David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold The World in North America. The rest of the world would have to wait until April 1971 to witness Bowie’s landmark entry into the 1970s, marking the beginning of a collaboration with guitarist Mick Ronson that would last through classic works including Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane—as well as the first in a 10-year series of indispensable albums stretching through 1980’s Scary Monsters…
Originally titled Metrobolist, the album's name was changed at the last minute to The Man Who Sold The World -- the original stereo master tapes were in fact labelled Metrobolist, with the title ultimately crossed out. The 2020 re-release of the album under its Metrobolist moniker has been remixed by original producer Tony Visconti, with the exception of the track ‘After All’ which Tony considered perfect as is, and is featured in its 2015 remaster incarnation.
The Metrobolist 50th anniversary artwork has been created by Mike Weller who was behind the originally intended album artwork which Mercury refused to release. The gatefold sleeve also features many images from the infamous Keith MacMillan Mr Fish ‘dress’ shoot at Haddon Hall which would cause so much controversy when one of the shots was used on the cover of the The Man Who Sold The World album in the rest of the world in spring of 1971.
The original U.S. release of The Man Who Sold The World utilised some of the original Metrobolist design elements.
As with the Space Oddity 50th anniversary vinyl, as well as a 180g black vinyl edition, it will come in 2020 limited edition handwritten numbered copies on gold vinyl (# 1971 - 2020) and on white vinyl (# 1 - 1970) all randomly distributed.
For the 50th anniversary the 1970 story of the gatefold sleeve can be told in full with unused ‘dress’ photos. As Mike Weller explains:
“There is a story concealed in the carpet-scattered playing cards, David has thrown a plain 52 card deck in the air as though “casting the runes” but in a significant break from 60s Tarot divinations such as I Ching etc he casts runes using a four-suit pack and switches man-dress, along with the Court Card of the Future from right hand to left, signifying a new decade and new cultural era.”
David personally delivered the Metrobolist concept and his gatefold plan to the record company for production and now with this release, it can finally be seen much closer to its original concept. Bowie speaking in 2000 said of the sleeve imagery:
"Mick Weller devised this kind of very subversive looking cartoon and put in some quite personalised things. The building in the background on the cartoon in fact was the hospital where my half brother had committed himself to. So for me, it had lots of personal resonance about it.”
DAVID BOWIE METROBOLIST TRACKLISTING
The Width of a Circle
All the Madmen
Black Country Rock
After All
Running Gun Blues
Saviour Machine
She Shook Me Cold
The Man Who Sold the World
The Supermen
METROBOLIST ALBUM AVAILABLE 6th NOVEMBER, 2020 ON PARLOPHONE
Aren't dreams the most crazy, wonderful thing...as long as they're nice ones, ofc.
You can literally go anywhere.
It's strange you mention this, as I had a Bowie dream the other night, where we had met, after one of his shows I think (can't remember that...shame), and were talking about music in general and guitar, and stuff, and out of the blue, he asked me if I would like to be his personal assistant on this tour, starting as of then!..So, obviously I said yes and off we went, as if two long lost friends reunited..I remember him doing a TV interview re the tour and the album release it was promoting and he asked me to sit nearby, as he introduced me as his PA...But there you go, strange dream, but a good un!
Talking about the Butcher Billy artwork, I really like his style and uniqueness and the way he gets a uniformity through an entire project/multiple pieces of work and still every piece retains it's individuality....
The Warszawa one is particularly clever, imo. Now I'm a massive fan of both Bowie, and Joy Division, so for him (Butcher Billy) to reference Joy Division/Ian Curtis in this piece of art, works really well..The song, obviously Warsawa (Low) and the fact that Joy Division were originally called Warsaw, a direct reference to Bowie's Warszawa song, which they liked so much, makes a perfect marriage for the design. A bleak, haunting atmosphere running through this Bowie song and through Joy Division. One or two may miss this reference/connection, but the Unknown Pleasures graphic behind the Bowie/Curtis artwork, pretty much gives it away...Great stuff!..😎
Butcher Billy has a knack for capturing likenesses and placing those in various contexts with a sense of humour and accuracy.
Thrilling dream you had. Yes, when such vivid dreams like that occur, I wake up wondering if the other person with whom I interacted with might’ve dreamt something similar. Maybe we’d met on the astral plane.
It’s happened a couple of times where someone has told me about a dream they’ve had where I’ve featured and it corresponded somewhat to a dream I’ve also had. There’s something to all of that, I should think, certainly.
Yes, it's when he was performing with Iggy Pop. I don't believe I've seen the keyboard rig from this angle. It was a cool look Bowie had for that as well.
I'm really digging this version of Moonage Daydream...They twist it just enough to put their own stamp on it, taking it out of the boundaries of a slavish copy, but still totally respecting the original...Great musicianship, ultra-cool video and some fab guitar work from Memoryfields' Billy Preston...Very cool..😎😎
I'm back from a summer of looking after my mum and my wife's mum who survived a serious brain operation and is now making steady progress.....difficult times we've been through as it goes. Life goes on.
Bowie film just a few days away - really looking forward to this one!
It's always so difficult seeing one's parents get older and become more infirm and suffering any related health issues. I do hope your mum is ok Paul, seem to remember she was scheduled for cataract surgery?, and do so hope your wife's mum makes a full recovery. Very difficult times, but all you can do, is do your best, and help them the best you can....I wish you both the very best.
I'm looking forward to the film too, I just hope our current work commitments aren't going to throw a spanner in the works.
David Bowie...Always ahead of the curve...light years ahead
Quite an extraordinary performance...He is looking at me..As one comment says "How did he do that, merely looking into a camera but actually staring straight into my soul"
This is pretty cool.....Here's David Bowie's 'Space Oddity', with accompanying video images created by using the actual song lyrics, as AI prompts (with minimal 'tweaking'), in Midjourey.....interesting, and really works quite well..😎
Hi Palladium..Yes, I did mention it was created in Midjourney..😉
I think it was a really clever idea to use song lyrics and sync the resultant AI generated images to the actual song. Ofc, there will be some 'polish' applied to the prompts used, but as stated, minimal, and I think the finished sequence looks really great and fits the song very well...I'm sure Dvid Bowie would be impressed....Indeed, I think there are a couple or more 'wow' visual moments, and one of these for me is exactly the one you mention ("check ignition, etc"), which is very striking..quite stunning really...definitely would make a great standalone piece of art.
Other highlights for me include:
1:43 "and i'm floating in a most peculiar way"
1:48 "and the stars look very different today"
2:05 "far above the world"
2:50 "i'm feeling very still"
3"03 "tell my wife i love her very much"...fantastic
3:22 "can you hear me, major tom?"...absolutely fabulous and would make a great actual Bowie album cover, with a 'light' Ps re-edit to give it a little more sophistication and balance.
Also: 3:27, 3:28, 3:37 and 3:46(fab) and the main Astronaut looks perfect for this song.
...well that's not many then!..🤣.......Great video..😎
Just a little sidenote...I've been closely following the various different options available, in getting involved with AI generated art, and the program that will suit me the most, in regards to final output and style and look etc and what I want to ultimately do with it, is Midjourney, quite easily....I think it all depends on what you're looking for and what you want to achieve....Most importantly, before signing up to any, which isn't particularly cheap, you really should have an end goal in mind, or you will simply just accumulate thousands of these AI generated images, that will sit aimlessly on your HDD, with no particular purpose...which is cool, if that's what you're looking for...But having specific design projects and goals in mind, a definite end result, before you commit to a platform, is key to keeping it real and sane, and will ultimately justify the expense and time invested...just saying😉...it's all about purpose.
Great Bowie era this......eARTHLING & on tour reinventing himself once again with a hard sound. I still find it hard to come to terms with the fact that he's not there anymore......In my silly little head, I thought he'd live forever.......my mistake hey?
Totally agree...A strange coincidence, but I was only thinking the other day it's still so hard to believe he's not here anymore, in the flesh and blood, almost as if it's not real. It's like in my subconscious, Bowie would always be around...How could there be a world without Bowie in it?
How lucky we are to have been a part of it, pretty amazing..😎
Cheers merikan. I've had a look and it really does look very good. I think I'm going to put a pre-order in. There are one or two good deals with UK suppliers.
It's got three of my faves of his, Silly Boy Blue, Love You Till Tuesday and When I Live My Dream, which are among the early ones that stand up with his best material, in my opinion, along with curious creations, like Rubber Band . . .
@paul.smith Cheers mate...Yes, same here, we'll be straight there too!...I think we will have a nice hotel stayover as well and really make a day/night of it...Will have to wait for official venues and then choose. I do know the Curzon in Soho and the Sheffield DocFest at Sheffield City Hall will be screening the film. The Sheffield date is 23rd June, opening up the documentary festival..Not sure on the London date, but I imagine sometime in September.
I like the official lyrics videos. They’ve helped me a few times with misheard words and as much as I like official promo films, they’ve sometimes replaced this listener’s mental official promo films with less interesting images. This problem doesn’t occur when watching official lyrics vids. ☺️
Good points. Iggy so often reminds me of Jerry Lewis. I suppose Bowie & Pop were a bit like Martin & Lewis. I think of Iggy’s backing vocals in David’s ‘What In The World?’
I'll just borrow from a couple of the comments attached to this video, to introduce it.
I too am pretty much a giant snob when it comes to others 'covering' Bowie songs.
I firmly believe people who perform cover versions should definitely put their own spin on it, reimagine it if you like, and this performer gives a true reinterpretation, while being respectful of the original...I think David Bowie would have liked and appreciated this performance.
Ah! Thanks Tourist for your concern....been up and down several times from London to Wales to help my 85 year old mother with her cataract operation stuff...still ongoing but going ok....
Here's a 'Bowie' from me now I'm back with some time on my hands:
Rainbow gig transfers given to members of the Bowie fan club in early 73 - designed by George Underwood who punched him in the eye and unwittingly gave him the 'look' for the rest of his life!
Will listen to the Aurora when I've had some time to recover & sleep.....looks interesting!
@paul.smith Ha!, there you are...Good man, for looking after your mum and I'm pleased she's doing ok. I know one or two elderly people who have had really positive outcomes from this op, and as far as I can remember, they were outpatients and back home the same day, so hope all goes well for her.
That's a really cool piece of memorabilia, never seen it before..I'd imagine it's pretty rare?
Yeah, the Aurora track is pretty cool..May I suggest listening when nicely relaxed, lights dimmed low and something like a JW Black, or Green, Label just to embellish the overall experience..works for me anyway😉
One of the last pictures in British pop mags of Bowie with the Ziggy look before it all went silent for a while. I never bought pop mags after this, so that's why it's all I post!
All pop mags in 1974 had pictures like this from the RR video in Amsterdam, and a few of the 1980 Floor Show from the previous end of year, and that was it!
Maybe I should publish them all in a vanity project - 25 copies for those that give a shit - that would be fun/expensive/futile/and expensive once again....
I love posting them up here though, otherwise they would rot.....
Ok, everyone's seen Bowies 1976 mugshot...this version has been retouched, not by me.
I do however have this image (the right hand half) printed on a white Raw Power T-shirt and it's one of my faves. It has a red screen printed, semi-transparent brush stroke running across Bowie's eyes and it always gets a look.
I've got a few Raw Power T's, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Sinatra, Dennis Hopper, Sid Vicious, they really are fantastic quality, seemingly indestructible, washed a million times and still keep their shape and look good...Definitely recommend them, if you can still get them.
Totally agree Paul and one of the reasons I love this thread. It's not a bad little 'vault' of Bowie memorabilia we're documenting here, with some diverse, different and some quite hard to find stuff in here...So, let's keep it growing and I think it will become quite a worthy little archive in it's own right, for people to look at many years into the future, hopefully.
African Girl First Time Hearing Reaction to David Bowie - The Secret Life Of Arabia
David Bowie LOST Sigma Sound Tapes: FOUND!!!
David Bowie practicing in the basement of Haddon Hall, 1969
George Underwood on DB
David Bowie • Brian Eno • Art Gallery Interview
(Never thought I’d hear David Bowie say the name ‘John Foxx’)
Songs covered by David Bowie
Eddie Floyd : Knock On Wood
Johnny Kidd & The Pirates : Shakin' All Over
Rolling Stones : Let’s Spend The Night Together
Chuck Berry : Around & Around
Ron Davies : It Ain’t Easy
Cream : I Feel Free
Tom Verlaine : Kingdom Come
The Modern Lovers : Pablo Picasso
Pixies : Cactus
Biff Rose : Fill Your Heart
Morrissey : I Know It’s Gonna Happen Someday
The Kinks : Waterloo Sunset
The Who : Pictures Of Lily
The Pink Floyd : Arnold Layne
Legendary Stardust Cowboy : I Took A Trip On A Gemini Spaceship
Neil Young : I’ve Been Waiting for You
The Beach Boys : God Only Knows
Bob Dylan : Tryin' to Get to Heaven
https://www.mixcloud.com/Gardener/david-bowie-the-1st-versions/
Bowie saw the future done in two takes .. what a band !
The History of Sleng Teng Riddim (Did David Bowie indirectly inspire digital reggae?)
David Bowie | Diamond Dogs | TV Commercial | 1974 | Restored
David Bowie - Rebel Rebel (Original Mix) [Official Audio]
...The original tape of Rebel Rebel (which had been missing since the mid-1970s), has now been discovered and remastered for this special one-track digital single.
Preceding the album by more than three months, Rebel Rebel peaked at #5 on the official UK singles chart. The original single mix was substituted by the shorter, ‘phased’ US single version in North America, featuring a new arrangement and overdubbed vocals. The album originally peaked at #1 on the official UK album chart and #5 on the Billboard album chart in the US....(Posted on YouTube, 24th May 2019).
...Just in case one or two might not have heard this version...It's really great. Chunkier, grittier, thicker.
DAVID BOWIE Let's Dance...Super-rare sealed Limited Edition 2015 EU-pressed Yellow Vinyl 7" made exclusively for the ACMI "David Bowie Is" Exhibition which took place in Melbourne, Australia & ran from 16th July- 1st November that year, originally only available if you attended the event & were prepared to queue for it! Features a unique coupling of the Single Version & Live Version, custom sticker sealed with the green hype sticker, unopened & unplayed in a clear pvc sleeve. An instant collectable & superb investment piece, with only 500 copies made.
All yours, for £795.........
I always really liked Stevie Ray Vaughn's concise guitar solo, in this version.
Lexi Jones, daughter of David Bowie, sings "Starman" and "Life On Mars?"
...Due out 14th December...I have no idea how good this will be, but at £21.99 hardback, might just be worth a punt, and will possibly make a very nice little Christmas stocking filler!..😎
Artwork/caricature, by Sebastian Kruger.
We Are KING - "Space Oddity"
It all looks a bit edgy and tense
DAVID BOWIE Moonage Daydream - 2023 UK/EU limited edition triple album 3-LP set, the musical accompaniment to the critically acclaimed movie 'Moonage Daydream' by Brett Morgen, now available across three black vinyl LP records. Featuring unheard versions, live tracks and mixes, created exclusively for the film. Housed inside a deluxe tri-fold picture sleeve.
The companion albums feature songs spanning Bowie’s career and include previously unheard material, unique mixes created for the film, and this release, along with dialogue from Bowie himself. Highlights include a previously unreleased live medley of 'The Jean Genie / Love Me Do / The Jean Genie’ recorded live at the final Ziggy Stardust concert at Hammersmith Odeon in 1973, featuring Jeff Beck on guitar. Other rarities include an early version of the Hunky Dory favourite ‘Quicksand’ and a previously unreleased live version of ‘Rock ’n’ Roll with Me’ from the legendary 1974 ’Soul Tour’.
LP1
Side 1
1 David Bowie - “Time… one of the most complex expressions…”
2 David Bowie - Ian Fish U.K. Heir (Moonage Daydream Mix 1)
3 David Bowie - Hallo Spaceboy (Remix Moonage Daydream Edit)
4 David Bowie - Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud (Live) [Stereo]
5 David Bowie - All the Young Dudes (Live) [Stereo]
6 David Bowie - Oh! You Pretty Things (Live) [Stereo]
7 David Bowie - Life On Mars? (2016 Mix – Moonage Daydream Edit)
8 David Bowie - Moonage Daydream (Live) [Stereo]
LP1
Side 2
1 David Bowie - Medley: The Jean Genie / Love Me Do / The Jean Genie (Live) [feat. Jeff Beck]
2 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - The Light (Excerpt)
3 David Bowie - Warszawa (Live Moonage Daydream Edit)
4 David Bowie - Quicksand (2021 Mix – Early Version)
5 David Bowie - Medley: Future Legend / Diamond Dogs Intro / Cracked Actor
LP2
Side 1
1 David Bowie - Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me (Live)
2 David Bowie - Aladdin Sane (Moonage Daydream Edit)
3 David Bowie - Subterraneans (2017 Remaster)
4 David Bowie - Space Oddity (Moonage Daydream Mix)
5 David Bowie - V-2 Schneider (2017 Remaster)
LP2
Side 2
1 David Bowie - Sound And Vision (Moonage Daydream Mix)
2 David Bowie - A New Career In A New Town (Moonage Daydream Mix)
3 David Bowie - Word On A Wing (Moonage Daydream Mix Excerpt)
4 David Bowie - “Heroes” (Live Moonage Daydream Edit)
5 David Bowie - D.J. (Moonage Daydream Mix)
6 David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes (Moonage Daydream Mix)
7 David Bowie - Move On (Moonage Daydream A Cappella Mix Edit)
8 David Bowie - Moss Garden (Moonage Daydream Edit)
LP3
Side 1
1 David Bowie - Cygnet Committee / Lazarus (Moonage Daydream Mix)
2 David Bowie - Memory Of A Free Festival (Harmonium Edit)
3 David Bowie - Modern Love (Moonage Daydream Mix)
4 David Bowie - Let’s Dance (Live Moonage Daydream Edit)
5 David Bowie - The Mysteries (Moonage Daydream Mix)
6 David Bowie - Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide (Live Moonage Daydream Edit)
7 David Bowie - Ian Fish U.K. Heir (Moonage Daydream Mix 2)
LP3
Side 2
1 David Bowie - Word On A Wing (Moonage Daydream Mix)
2 David Bowie - Hallo Spaceboy (Live Moonage Daydream Mix)
3 David Bowie - I Have Not Been To Oxford Town (Moonage Daydream A Cappella Mix Edit)
4 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - “Heroes": IV. Sons Of The Silent Age (Excerpt)
5 David Bowie - ? (Moonage Daydream Film Mix Edit)
6 David Bowie - Ian Fish U.K. Heir (Moonage Daydream Mix Excerpt)
7 David Bowie - Memory Of A Free Festival (Moonage Daydream Mix Edit)
8 David Bowie - Starman (Original Single Mix) [2015 Remaster]
9 David Bowie - “You’re aware of a deeper existence…”
10 David Bowie - Changes (2015 Remaster)
11 David Bowie - “Let me tell you one thing…”
12 David Bowie - “Well you know what, this has been an incredible pleasure…”
...I think it's around £70, but a nice addition to anyone's Bowie collection..😎
A Tourist quickie fun edit...Original photograph by Kevin Cummins.
I've cropped-in this original Kevin Cummins photograph of Bowie (NYC) 1997 and given it a bit more of an old-school 'Agfa film look'...I think it takes away something of the overall context of that shot, but makes it more focused as a Bowie street-portrait.
Original photo somewhere below.
David Bowie : The Alternative Hunky Dory mix
Changes – alternate
Oh! You Pretty Things – alternate
Eight Line Poem – radio session
Life on Mars? – original full version
Kooks – live
Quicksand – alternate
Fill Your Heart – session
Andy Warhol – live + original mono mix
Song for Bob Dylan – alternate
Queen Bitch – alternate
The Bewlay Brothers - alternate
https://soundcloud.com/shanequentin/david-bowie-the-alternative-hunky-dory
METROBOLIST (AKA THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD) 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Metrobolist (AKA The Man Who Sold The World) 50th anniversary edition — David Bowie
DAVID BOWIE Metrobolist (2020 UK/EU limited edition 9-track LP pressed on 180-gram Gold Vinyl, individually hand-numbered on the red centre label, limited to just 50 copies and randomly distributed among the black and white vinyl variants. The gold vinyl records are numbered 1971 to 2020, this example is number 2003.
...Yours, for £3000.
DAVID BOWIE - 'METROBOLIST’ (AKA ‘THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD') 50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION
REMIXED BY TONY VISCONTI WITH ARTWORK BASED ON ORIGINAL TITLE & DESIGN
RELEASED 6th NOVEMBER, 2020 ON LIMITED VINYL AND CD FORMATS, ALSO FOR STREAMING AND DOWNLOAD AT STANDARD AND HIGH RESOLUTION DOWNLOAD (96kHz/24bit)
Parlophone Records is proud to announce release details for METROBOLIST (aka THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD) 50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION to be released on 6th NOVEMBER, 2020.
This November sees the 50th Anniversary of the release of David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold The World in North America. The rest of the world would have to wait until April 1971 to witness Bowie’s landmark entry into the 1970s, marking the beginning of a collaboration with guitarist Mick Ronson that would last through classic works including Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane—as well as the first in a 10-year series of indispensable albums stretching through 1980’s Scary Monsters…
Originally titled Metrobolist, the album's name was changed at the last minute to The Man Who Sold The World -- the original stereo master tapes were in fact labelled Metrobolist, with the title ultimately crossed out. The 2020 re-release of the album under its Metrobolist moniker has been remixed by original producer Tony Visconti, with the exception of the track ‘After All’ which Tony considered perfect as is, and is featured in its 2015 remaster incarnation.
The Metrobolist 50th anniversary artwork has been created by Mike Weller who was behind the originally intended album artwork which Mercury refused to release. The gatefold sleeve also features many images from the infamous Keith MacMillan Mr Fish ‘dress’ shoot at Haddon Hall which would cause so much controversy when one of the shots was used on the cover of the The Man Who Sold The World album in the rest of the world in spring of 1971.
The original U.S. release of The Man Who Sold The World utilised some of the original Metrobolist design elements.
As with the Space Oddity 50th anniversary vinyl, as well as a 180g black vinyl edition, it will come in 2020 limited edition handwritten numbered copies on gold vinyl (# 1971 - 2020) and on white vinyl (# 1 - 1970) all randomly distributed.
For the 50th anniversary the 1970 story of the gatefold sleeve can be told in full with unused ‘dress’ photos. As Mike Weller explains:
“There is a story concealed in the carpet-scattered playing cards, David has thrown a plain 52 card deck in the air as though “casting the runes” but in a significant break from 60s Tarot divinations such as I Ching etc he casts runes using a four-suit pack and switches man-dress, along with the Court Card of the Future from right hand to left, signifying a new decade and new cultural era.”
David personally delivered the Metrobolist concept and his gatefold plan to the record company for production and now with this release, it can finally be seen much closer to its original concept. Bowie speaking in 2000 said of the sleeve imagery:
"Mick Weller devised this kind of very subversive looking cartoon and put in some quite personalised things. The building in the background on the cartoon in fact was the hospital where my half brother had committed himself to. So for me, it had lots of personal resonance about it.”
DAVID BOWIE METROBOLIST TRACKLISTING
The Width of a Circle
All the Madmen
Black Country Rock
After All
Running Gun Blues
Saviour Machine
She Shook Me Cold
The Man Who Sold the World
The Supermen
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A Butcher Billy artwork montage...Pretty clever stuff.
Bowie London 1973, by Roger Morton
Scotland 1973, by Mick Rock.
The 45th anniversary limited edition 'Bricks & Mortar' pressing, on silver-grey vinyl.
Unlike the rest of the 'Berlin Trilogy', Heroes was the only album recorded in it's entirety at the Hansa Studios.
I'm really digging this version of Moonage Daydream...They twist it just enough to put their own stamp on it, taking it out of the boundaries of a slavish copy, but still totally respecting the original...Great musicianship, ultra-cool video and some fab guitar work from Memoryfields' Billy Preston...Very cool..😎😎
Robyn Cage + Memoryfield ~ Moonage Daydream
...Platform shoes...nice touch😉😊😎
David Bowie, Photo © Denis O'Regan 1983
I'm back from a summer of looking after my mum and my wife's mum who survived a serious brain operation and is now making steady progress.....difficult times we've been through as it goes. Life goes on.
Bowie film just a few days away - really looking forward to this one!
David Bowie...Always ahead of the curve...light years ahead
Quite an extraordinary performance...He is looking at me..As one comment says "How did he do that, merely looking into a camera but actually staring straight into my soul"
This is pretty cool.....Here's David Bowie's 'Space Oddity', with accompanying video images created by using the actual song lyrics, as AI prompts (with minimal 'tweaking'), in Midjourey.....interesting, and really works quite well..😎
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4R8HTIgHUU&list=RDv6xis2PcHXE&index=4
DB with The Pretty Things circa mid '60s
Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in “Our Modern Maidens” 1929
Fresh today
MOONAGE DAYDREAM - Official Trailer [HD]
...can't wait!!!
In front of Tea & Sympathy, NYC, 10th Jan. 1997, by Kevin Cummins.
Same photoshoot - Jackie mag 1973
Another from 1973
Giant Ziggy poster 1973.....took up a whole wall as I remember!
..a thread revival...can't keep a good thing down!😉
Happy Birthday Ziggy Stardust, 50 years old today!
This may be of interest to someone (not spam!)
http://www.martinpopoff.com/html/bowie-at-75.html
I have read quite a few of his books and bought them as gifts. Always enjoyable and informative.
Eponymous released on 1 June 1967.
It's got three of my faves of his, Silly Boy Blue, Love You Till Tuesday and When I Live My Dream, which are among the early ones that stand up with his best material, in my opinion, along with curious creations, like Rubber Band . . .
I've got a feeling this is going to be fantastic!
As it says, in cinemas worldwide September.
So, (borrowing from a couple of the comments), grab your eyeliner and popcorn Paul
and let's freak out in a Moonage Daydream...Oh yeah!!...😎
..I actually felt quite emotional watching this trailer.
David Bowie ~ Starman [Official Lyric Video]
This is pretty cool, and viewing full-screen, I'm digging the animated graphics.
😎
. . . with DEVO at Max's Kansas City, 1977.
I'll just borrow from a couple of the comments attached to this video, to introduce it.
I too am pretty much a giant snob when it comes to others 'covering' Bowie songs.
I firmly believe people who perform cover versions should definitely put their own spin on it, reimagine it if you like, and this performer gives a true reinterpretation, while being respectful of the original...I think David Bowie would have liked and appreciated this performance.
Happy World Book Day😁
Bowie Etched Saucepan (Worldwide 1 of 1) £450 hmmmm...
https://www.bowiegallery.com/product/bowie-etched-saucepan-worldwide-1-of-1
Been wondering if the interestingly catchy song 'I'm A Moody Guy' by Shane Fenton might've been what David Bowie referenced with the "moody guy" appearance in the lyrics of the song 'Yassassin.' If so, it's certainly more subtle than, say, the quote of The Shadows classic 'Apache' in the song 'Where Does The Grass Grow?'
One of the last pictures in British pop mags of Bowie with the Ziggy look before it all went silent for a while. I never bought pop mags after this, so that's why it's all I post!
All pop mags in 1974 had pictures like this from the RR video in Amsterdam, and a few of the 1980 Floor Show from the previous end of year, and that was it!
Maybe I should publish them all in a vanity project - 25 copies for those that give a shit - that would be fun/expensive/futile/and expensive once again....
I love posting them up here though, otherwise they would rot.....
Ok, everyone's seen Bowies 1976 mugshot...this version has been retouched, not by me.
I do however have this image (the right hand half) printed on a white Raw Power T-shirt and it's one of my faves. It has a red screen printed, semi-transparent brush stroke running across Bowie's eyes and it always gets a look.
I've got a few Raw Power T's, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Sinatra, Dennis Hopper, Sid Vicious, they really are fantastic quality, seemingly indestructible, washed a million times and still keep their shape and look good...Definitely recommend them, if you can still get them.
Both shots outside London's Earls Court, May 12th 1973, the opening show of the fourth-leg of the David Bowie Tour 1973 (UK/USA/JAPAN/UK)