David Bowie: January 8th 1947 – January 10th 2016
(Photo by Jimmy King 2015)
#BowieForever
BOWIE’S AMERICAN LIBRARIES READ CAMPAIGN AND THE IDIOT
“Calling Sister Midnight, Well, I’m an idiot for you…”
Back in 2013 we posted BOWIE’S TOP 100 BOOKS – THE COMPLETE LIST: https://www.davidbowie.com/blog/2013/10/1/bowies-top-100-books-the-complete-list (Linktree in bio)
In 1986 photographer Chalkie Davies produced the portraits here of Bowie with Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot*, a book not on the list, but that’s no reason not to view these images again.
They were made for the American Library Association‘s READ campaign, and specifically for the 1987 David Bowie for America’s Libraries READ poster, and associated items such as bookmarks.
* David suggested the title for the Iggy Pop album of the same name. He also took the cover shot of Iggy based on Erich Heckel’s painting Roquairol. The photograph is often miscredited to Andrew Kent. Perhaps Iggy can remember the moment?
@iggypopofficial
@chalkiedavies
#BowieBookClub #BowieBookLover #FyodorDostoevskyTheIdiot #IggyPopTheIdiot
BOWIE’S AMERICAN LIBRARIES READ CAMPAIGN AND THE IDIOT
“Calling Sister Midnight, Well, I’m an idiot for you…”
Back in 2013 we posted BOWIE’S TOP 100 BOOKS – THE COMPLETE LIST: https://www.davidbowie.com/blog/2013/10/1/bowies-top-100-books-the-complete-list (Linktree in bio)
In 1986 photographer Chalkie Davies produced the portraits here of Bowie with Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot*, a book not on the list, but that’s no reason not to view these images again.
They were made for the American Library Association‘s READ campaign, and specifically for the 1987 David Bowie for America’s Libraries READ poster, and associated items such as bookmarks.
* David suggested the title for the Iggy Pop album of the same name. He also took the cover shot of Iggy based on Erich Heckel’s painting Roquairol. The photograph is often miscredited to Andrew Kent. Perhaps Iggy can remember the moment?
@iggypopofficial
@chalkiedavies
#BowieBookClub #BowieBookLover #FyodorDostoevskyTheIdiot #IggyPopTheIdiot
BOWIE’S AMERICAN LIBRARIES READ CAMPAIGN AND THE IDIOT
“Calling Sister Midnight, Well, I’m an idiot for you…”
Back in 2013 we posted BOWIE’S TOP 100 BOOKS – THE COMPLETE LIST: https://www.davidbowie.com/blog/2013/10/1/bowies-top-100-books-the-complete-list (Linktree in bio)
In 1986 photographer Chalkie Davies produced the portraits here of Bowie with Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot*, a book not on the list, but that’s no reason not to view these images again.
They were made for the American Library Association‘s READ campaign, and specifically for the 1987 David Bowie for America’s Libraries READ poster, and associated items such as bookmarks.
* David suggested the title for the Iggy Pop album of the same name. He also took the cover shot of Iggy based on Erich Heckel’s painting Roquairol. The photograph is often miscredited to Andrew Kent. Perhaps Iggy can remember the moment?
@iggypopofficial
@chalkiedavies
#BowieBookClub #BowieBookLover #FyodorDostoevskyTheIdiot #IggyPopTheIdiot
DAVID AND IMAN’S 25-YEAR-OLD BIRTHDAY FUN
“On his 52nd birthday…” *
On what would have been David’s 77th birthday, we look back 25 years to January 8th, 1999, to a snowy New York evening, when David and Iman took part in an online chat for BowieNet members in honour of David’s 52nd birthday.
Known to BowieNetters in the chatroom as Sailor, David would often drop in unannounced for random chats with whoever was around.
But this was scheduled and was rammed with everyone descending on the chatroom at once. In those days of dial-up, it could make for a frustrating experience trying to keep up with the flow.
Iman kicked off proceedings and David joined in a bit later. We already knew how funny David was, but it was great to witness Iman’s wicked sense of humour too. Here’s an example of that…
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LaughingGnome: Hi Iman and welcome to the wackiness! I was wandering how much you knew of David Bowie before you met him? Were you a fan?
Iman: Yes, I’ve always been a fan of David’s music and actually been to all his concerts since I arrived in America in 1976, but I have never went backstage. I have been invited to go backstage, but we all know why girls like me are invited backstage! So I never went.
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Thankfully, Paul Kinder over at BowieWonderworld had the foresight to save all the BowieNet Live chats, so you can read the full transcript with many contributions from David here: https://www.bowiewonderworld.com/chats/dbchatiman0199.htm (Linktree in bio)
Congratulations are also due today as BowieWonderworld celebrates its 27th birthday. BWW is the longest running Bowie fansite of them all and is possibly the most valuable Bowie resource out there. Well done Paul.
📸 Kevin Mazur – David Bowie and Iman at the MTV Video Music Awards at Metropolitan Opera House New York City, 9th September 1999.
* The original lyric from Uncle Arthur was “On his 32nd birthday…”
#BowieForever #WorldDavidBowieDay #BowieNet
BOWIE’S BUSTER KEATON TRIBUTES
“He’s Chameleon, Comedian, Corinthian and Caricature…”
The first image here is another fine Steve Schapiro portrait from 1975. As you can see, David is pictured with Rudi Blesh‘s biography of Buster Keaton.
Schapiro remembers how David was impressed with the photographer’s connection to Keaton: “From the moment Bowie arrived, we seemed to hit it off. Incredibly intelligent, calm, and filled with ideas, he talked a lot about Alistair Crowley whose esoteric writings he was heavily into at the time. When David heard that I had photographed Buster Keaton, one of his greatest heroes, we instantly became friends.”
Bowie even used a full-page 1964 Schapiro shot of Keaton in New York inside the 1976 Isolar Tour programme. (2nd image)
Bowie references Keaton in at least a couple of his videos. In the 1977 Stanley Dorfman-directed Be My Wife promo, he performs against a bleached-out background in this heartfelt plea for marital union and somehow manages to appear nonchalant and anguished at the same time. Apparently, Bowie’s make-up and mannerisms in the video were a nod to Buster himself. (3rd image)
The Keaton look was reprised more obviously and to wonderful effect throughout the Miracle Goodnight video in 1993. (4th image)
A couple more images may or may not have been as a result of David watching Keaton’s movies. Perhaps the links are a little tenuous, but here they are anyway.
The 5th image is Sukita’s famous shot from 1973 wherein Bowie mirrors Keaton’s pose in the film The High Sign. (6th image)
The 7th slide is the 1971 edition of the KEATON paperback that Bowie is holding in the first image and the still of Keaton as a sailor is from the film The Navigator.
Finally, the last picture by @blamsnap is from the 2000 BowieNet Roseland concert when Bowie dressed nautically, Sailor being his chatroom nickname.
KEATON is a book that David was clearly fond of, but it’s another that didn’t make it into BOWIE’S TOP 100 BOOKS – THE COMPLETE LIST: https://www.davidbowie.com/blog/2013/10/1/bowies-top-100-books-the-complete-list (Linktree in bio)
#BowieBookLover #BowieSchapiro #BowieKeaton
LULU’S MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD IS FIFTY TODAY
“He said I was his friend…”
Fifty years ago today on Friday 11th January 1974, a 25-year-old Lulu launched the first of a few career resurrections in the shape of the Bowie-penned 45, The Man Who Sold The World/Watch That Man.
Produced and arranged by David Bowie and Mick Ronson the track reached #3 on the official UK singles chart, Lulu’s first top ten hit for five years.
It’s a superb record with a cracking arrangement quite different to the original Bowie track first recorded for the album of the same name in 1970.
Bowie provided backing vocals and a wonderful sax hook, while Ronno plays a solid riff throughout, all new to Lulu’s version which was recorded in France during the Pin Ups sessions.
The unlikely coupling created lots of press around the release, the Daily Mirror article in our montage being just one such item.
Apparently, David was more than a bit partial to the Lulu version himself, this from the Moonage Daydream book:
“Lulu is such a bright, funny and talented little thing. When I first heard her version of ‘Shout’ I was initially gobsmacked that anybody British had the nerve to cover that Isley Brothers classic. Then I realised that she had actually done a great job with it. How the idea came up for having her do a version of ‘Man Who Sold The World’ I have no clue, but I’m so glad we did it. I used the Pin Ups line-up to back her, including Ronson and drummer Aynsley Dunbar, and played the sax section on overdubs. I still have a very soft spot for that version, though to have the same song covered by both Lulu and Nirvana still bemuses me to this day.”
Lulu went on to record a couple more songs with David that ended up on his own Young Americans album after he decided to keep them for himself…but that’s another story.
Check out Lulu singing The Man Who Sold The World here on YouTube: http://smarturl.it/LuluTMWSTW (Linktree in bio)
📸 Kent Gavin
#BowieLulu50th #Bowie1974
LULU’S MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD IS FIFTY TODAY
“He said I was his friend…”
Fifty years ago today on Friday 11th January 1974, a 25-year-old Lulu launched the first of a few career resurrections in the shape of the Bowie-penned 45, The Man Who Sold The World/Watch That Man.
Produced and arranged by David Bowie and Mick Ronson the track reached #3 on the official UK singles chart, Lulu’s first top ten hit for five years.
It’s a superb record with a cracking arrangement quite different to the original Bowie track first recorded for the album of the same name in 1970.
Bowie provided backing vocals and a wonderful sax hook, while Ronno plays a solid riff throughout, all new to Lulu’s version which was recorded in France during the Pin Ups sessions.
The unlikely coupling created lots of press around the release, the Daily Mirror article in our montage being just one such item.
Apparently, David was more than a bit partial to the Lulu version himself, this from the Moonage Daydream book:
“Lulu is such a bright, funny and talented little thing. When I first heard her version of ‘Shout’ I was initially gobsmacked that anybody British had the nerve to cover that Isley Brothers classic. Then I realised that she had actually done a great job with it. How the idea came up for having her do a version of ‘Man Who Sold The World’ I have no clue, but I’m so glad we did it. I used the Pin Ups line-up to back her, including Ronson and drummer Aynsley Dunbar, and played the sax section on overdubs. I still have a very soft spot for that version, though to have the same song covered by both Lulu and Nirvana still bemuses me to this day.”
Lulu went on to record a couple more songs with David that ended up on his own Young Americans album after he decided to keep them for himself…but that’s another story.
Check out Lulu singing The Man Who Sold The World here on YouTube: http://smarturl.it/LuluTMWSTW (Linktree in bio)
📸 Kent Gavin
#BowieLulu50th #Bowie1974
LULU’S MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD IS FIFTY TODAY
“He said I was his friend…”
Fifty years ago today on Friday 11th January 1974, a 25-year-old Lulu launched the first of a few career resurrections in the shape of the Bowie-penned 45, The Man Who Sold The World/Watch That Man.
Produced and arranged by David Bowie and Mick Ronson the track reached #3 on the official UK singles chart, Lulu’s first top ten hit for five years.
It’s a superb record with a cracking arrangement quite different to the original Bowie track first recorded for the album of the same name in 1970.
Bowie provided backing vocals and a wonderful sax hook, while Ronno plays a solid riff throughout, all new to Lulu’s version which was recorded in France during the Pin Ups sessions.
The unlikely coupling created lots of press around the release, the Daily Mirror article in our montage being just one such item.
Apparently, David was more than a bit partial to the Lulu version himself, this from the Moonage Daydream book:
“Lulu is such a bright, funny and talented little thing. When I first heard her version of ‘Shout’ I was initially gobsmacked that anybody British had the nerve to cover that Isley Brothers classic. Then I realised that she had actually done a great job with it. How the idea came up for having her do a version of ‘Man Who Sold The World’ I have no clue, but I’m so glad we did it. I used the Pin Ups line-up to back her, including Ronson and drummer Aynsley Dunbar, and played the sax section on overdubs. I still have a very soft spot for that version, though to have the same song covered by both Lulu and Nirvana still bemuses me to this day.”
Lulu went on to record a couple more songs with David that ended up on his own Young Americans album after he decided to keep them for himself…but that’s another story.
Check out Lulu singing The Man Who Sold The World here on YouTube: http://smarturl.it/LuluTMWSTW (Linktree in bio)
📸 Kent Gavin
#BowieLulu50th #Bowie1974
LULU’S MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD IS FIFTY TODAY
“He said I was his friend…”
Fifty years ago today on Friday 11th January 1974, a 25-year-old Lulu launched the first of a few career resurrections in the shape of the Bowie-penned 45, The Man Who Sold The World/Watch That Man.
Produced and arranged by David Bowie and Mick Ronson the track reached #3 on the official UK singles chart, Lulu’s first top ten hit for five years.
It’s a superb record with a cracking arrangement quite different to the original Bowie track first recorded for the album of the same name in 1970.
Bowie provided backing vocals and a wonderful sax hook, while Ronno plays a solid riff throughout, all new to Lulu’s version which was recorded in France during the Pin Ups sessions.
The unlikely coupling created lots of press around the release, the Daily Mirror article in our montage being just one such item.
Apparently, David was more than a bit partial to the Lulu version himself, this from the Moonage Daydream book:
“Lulu is such a bright, funny and talented little thing. When I first heard her version of ‘Shout’ I was initially gobsmacked that anybody British had the nerve to cover that Isley Brothers classic. Then I realised that she had actually done a great job with it. How the idea came up for having her do a version of ‘Man Who Sold The World’ I have no clue, but I’m so glad we did it. I used the Pin Ups line-up to back her, including Ronson and drummer Aynsley Dunbar, and played the sax section on overdubs. I still have a very soft spot for that version, though to have the same song covered by both Lulu and Nirvana still bemuses me to this day.”
Lulu went on to record a couple more songs with David that ended up on his own Young Americans album after he decided to keep them for himself…but that’s another story.
Check out Lulu singing The Man Who Sold The World here on YouTube: http://smarturl.it/LuluTMWSTW (Linktree in bio)
📸 Kent Gavin
#BowieLulu50th #Bowie1974
LULU’S MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD IS FIFTY TODAY
“He said I was his friend…”
Fifty years ago today on Friday 11th January 1974, a 25-year-old Lulu launched the first of a few career resurrections in the shape of the Bowie-penned 45, The Man Who Sold The World/Watch That Man.
Produced and arranged by David Bowie and Mick Ronson the track reached #3 on the official UK singles chart, Lulu’s first top ten hit for five years.
It’s a superb record with a cracking arrangement quite different to the original Bowie track first recorded for the album of the same name in 1970.
Bowie provided backing vocals and a wonderful sax hook, while Ronno plays a solid riff throughout, all new to Lulu’s version which was recorded in France during the Pin Ups sessions.
The unlikely coupling created lots of press around the release, the Daily Mirror article in our montage being just one such item.
Apparently, David was more than a bit partial to the Lulu version himself, this from the Moonage Daydream book:
“Lulu is such a bright, funny and talented little thing. When I first heard her version of ‘Shout’ I was initially gobsmacked that anybody British had the nerve to cover that Isley Brothers classic. Then I realised that she had actually done a great job with it. How the idea came up for having her do a version of ‘Man Who Sold The World’ I have no clue, but I’m so glad we did it. I used the Pin Ups line-up to back her, including Ronson and drummer Aynsley Dunbar, and played the sax section on overdubs. I still have a very soft spot for that version, though to have the same song covered by both Lulu and Nirvana still bemuses me to this day.”
Lulu went on to record a couple more songs with David that ended up on his own Young Americans album after he decided to keep them for himself…but that’s another story.
Check out Lulu singing The Man Who Sold The World here on YouTube: http://smarturl.it/LuluTMWSTW (Linktree in bio)
📸 Kent Gavin
#BowieLulu50th #Bowie1974
LULU’S MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD IS FIFTY TODAY
“He said I was his friend…”
Fifty years ago today on Friday 11th January 1974, a 25-year-old Lulu launched the first of a few career resurrections in the shape of the Bowie-penned 45, The Man Who Sold The World/Watch That Man.
Produced and arranged by David Bowie and Mick Ronson the track reached #3 on the official UK singles chart, Lulu’s first top ten hit for five years.
It’s a superb record with a cracking arrangement quite different to the original Bowie track first recorded for the album of the same name in 1970.
Bowie provided backing vocals and a wonderful sax hook, while Ronno plays a solid riff throughout, all new to Lulu’s version which was recorded in France during the Pin Ups sessions.
The unlikely coupling created lots of press around the release, the Daily Mirror article in our montage being just one such item.
Apparently, David was more than a bit partial to the Lulu version himself, this from the Moonage Daydream book:
“Lulu is such a bright, funny and talented little thing. When I first heard her version of ‘Shout’ I was initially gobsmacked that anybody British had the nerve to cover that Isley Brothers classic. Then I realised that she had actually done a great job with it. How the idea came up for having her do a version of ‘Man Who Sold The World’ I have no clue, but I’m so glad we did it. I used the Pin Ups line-up to back her, including Ronson and drummer Aynsley Dunbar, and played the sax section on overdubs. I still have a very soft spot for that version, though to have the same song covered by both Lulu and Nirvana still bemuses me to this day.”
Lulu went on to record a couple more songs with David that ended up on his own Young Americans album after he decided to keep them for himself…but that’s another story.
Check out Lulu singing The Man Who Sold The World here on YouTube: http://smarturl.it/LuluTMWSTW (Linktree in bio)
📸 Kent Gavin
#BowieLulu50th #Bowie1974
A HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM DBHQ
“Bow-wow, woof woof, bow-wow, wow…”
Welcome to 2024, the 50th anniversary of THE YEAR OF THE DIAMOND DOGS.
The image here is from Terry O’Neill’s set of preparatory photographs for Guy Peellaert’s stunning cover art painting.
Here’s to a healthy and peaceful 2024, and remember, “Keep cool, Diamond Dogs rule, OK”
Thanks for all your support throughout 2023, it’s always appreciated.
#BowieNewYear2024 #DiamondDogs50 #1974TheYearOfTheDiamondDogs
A HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM DBHQ
“Bow-wow, woof woof, bow-wow, wow…”
Welcome to 2024, the 50th anniversary of THE YEAR OF THE DIAMOND DOGS.
The image here is from Terry O’Neill’s set of preparatory photographs for Guy Peellaert’s stunning cover art painting.
Here’s to a healthy and peaceful 2024, and remember, “Keep cool, Diamond Dogs rule, OK”
Thanks for all your support throughout 2023, it’s always appreciated.
#BowieNewYear2024 #DiamondDogs50 #1974TheYearOfTheDiamondDogs
1973 BELONGS TO DAVID BOWIE *
“A trumpet you can blow, And a lunch at Rules…” **
We close our 50h anniversary celebrations of 1973 today with a look back at New Year’s Eve, 1973.
These pictures by Michael Putland were taken at an RCA Records luncheon at the prestigious Rules restaurant in London’s Covent Garden, to mark Bowie’s extraordinary performance on the UK album charts.
The plaque in the framed album presentation was inscribed thus:
“Awarded to David Bowie for outstanding musical achievements. From your friends at RCA.“
At the New Year’s Eve presentation, David apparently rose from the head of a long table in an upstairs room to thank everyone:
“I don’t know what to say, I feel like a rock ‘n’ roll star. At least it keeps the kids on the streets. Thanks to everyone who bought or were given the albums.”
For more information about Bowie’s 1973 chart performance, see the post from 6th December titled: THANKS FOR NUMBER ONE DAVID.
FOOTNOTE: Rules, which claims to be the oldest restaurant in London, was also the venue for the festive photoshoot that put David on the cover of the December 1969 edition of Fabulous 208.
* Other years are available when it comes to Bowie’s success, for example, ten years later his chart performances weren’t too shabby either. Indeed, years ending in 3 were generally good for David Bowie.
** Apologies for the appropriation of the lyric from Kooks, which originally reads: “A trumpet you can blow, and a book of rules…”
#Bowie1973
Bowie arrives in Wellington, New Zealand, November 1983.
#ThatBowieSmile
GOOD LUCK FOR RUE DAVID BOWIE INAUGURATION DAY
“Well, how come you only want tomorrow…”
We told you about tomorrow’s event in Paris back at the start of December. (03 December 2023: GEORGE AND GEOFF TO UNVEIL RUE DAVID BOWIE PLAQUE)
Keep your eye on this page for timings: https://mairie13.paris.fr/pages/le-13e-accueille-la-rue-david-bowie-25858 (Linktree in bio)
Good luck to all involved and particular thanks to Jérôme Soligny for keeping us updated.
#RueDavidBowie #BowieParis
GOOD LUCK FOR RUE DAVID BOWIE INAUGURATION DAY
“Well, how come you only want tomorrow…”
We told you about tomorrow’s event in Paris back at the start of December. (03 December 2023: GEORGE AND GEOFF TO UNVEIL RUE DAVID BOWIE PLAQUE)
Keep your eye on this page for timings: https://mairie13.paris.fr/pages/le-13e-accueille-la-rue-david-bowie-25858 (Linktree in bio)
Good luck to all involved and particular thanks to Jérôme Soligny for keeping us updated.
#RueDavidBowie #BowieParis
GOOD LUCK FOR RUE DAVID BOWIE INAUGURATION DAY
“Well, how come you only want tomorrow…”
We told you about tomorrow’s event in Paris back at the start of December. (03 December 2023: GEORGE AND GEOFF TO UNVEIL RUE DAVID BOWIE PLAQUE)
Keep your eye on this page for timings: https://mairie13.paris.fr/pages/le-13e-accueille-la-rue-david-bowie-25858 (Linktree in bio)
Good luck to all involved and particular thanks to Jérôme Soligny for keeping us updated.
#RueDavidBowie #BowieParis
GOOD LUCK FOR RUE DAVID BOWIE INAUGURATION DAY
“Well, how come you only want tomorrow…”
We told you about tomorrow’s event in Paris back at the start of December. (03 December 2023: GEORGE AND GEOFF TO UNVEIL RUE DAVID BOWIE PLAQUE)
Keep your eye on this page for timings: https://mairie13.paris.fr/pages/le-13e-accueille-la-rue-david-bowie-25858 (Linktree in bio)
Good luck to all involved and particular thanks to Jérôme Soligny for keeping us updated.
#RueDavidBowie #BowieParis
GOT THE RECORD AND THE T-SHIRTS?
“I like the tee shirts…”
Never need an excuse to post a Steve Schapiro shot of David Bowie.
As you no doubt know, this particular one was taken when Bowie appeared with Cher on her CBS TV show in September 1975, the show aired in November 1975.
The same image was used for the 40th anniversary Golden Years picture disc and an official 45th anniversary Young Americans T-shirt.
However, a T-shirt utilising another picture of Steve‘s from the show was made available as the ON STAGE T-shirt in various colours in 1976 (see third image) and is now quite the collectors’ item.
Do you still have yours?
#BowieSchapiro #BowieCher #DBTshirt
GOT THE RECORD AND THE T-SHIRTS?
“I like the tee shirts…”
Never need an excuse to post a Steve Schapiro shot of David Bowie.
As you no doubt know, this particular one was taken when Bowie appeared with Cher on her CBS TV show in September 1975, the show aired in November 1975.
The same image was used for the 40th anniversary Golden Years picture disc and an official 45th anniversary Young Americans T-shirt.
However, a T-shirt utilising another picture of Steve‘s from the show was made available as the ON STAGE T-shirt in various colours in 1976 (see third image) and is now quite the collectors’ item.
Do you still have yours?
#BowieSchapiro #BowieCher #DBTshirt
GOT THE RECORD AND THE T-SHIRTS?
“I like the tee shirts…”
Never need an excuse to post a Steve Schapiro shot of David Bowie.
As you no doubt know, this particular one was taken when Bowie appeared with Cher on her CBS TV show in September 1975, the show aired in November 1975.
The same image was used for the 40th anniversary Golden Years picture disc and an official 45th anniversary Young Americans T-shirt.
However, a T-shirt utilising another picture of Steve‘s from the show was made available as the ON STAGE T-shirt in various colours in 1976 (see third image) and is now quite the collectors’ item.
Do you still have yours?
#BowieSchapiro #BowieCher #DBTshirt
WAITING IN THE SKY VINYL LP FOR RSD 2024
“He’d like to come and meet us…”
To mark what would have been David Bowie’s 77th birthday, Parlophone Records are proud to announce the release of a very special David Bowie limited vinyl LP, WAITING IN THE SKY (BEFORE THE STARMAN CAME TO EARTH) which will be released on 20th April, 2024 for Record Store Day.
The album is taken from the Trident Studios 1/4” stereo tapes dated 15th December, 1971, which were created for the then provisional tracklisting for what would become THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS album.
The tracklisting for WAITING IN THE SKY (BEFORE THE STARMAN CAME TO EARTH) runs differently from the ZIGGY STARDUST album and features four songs that didn’t make the final album.
DAVID BOWIE – WAITING IN THE SKY (BEFORE THE STARMAN CAME TO EARTH)
Side 1
Five Years
Soul Love
Moonage Daydream
Round And Round
Amsterdam
Side 2
Hang On To Yourself
Ziggy Stardust
Velvet Goldmine
Holy Holy
Star
Lady Stardust
Go here for the full press release: www.davidbowie.com/blog/2024/1/7/waiting-in-the-sky-vinyl-lp-for-rsd-2024 (Linktree in bio)
#BowieRSD #RSD2024 #BowieWaitingInTheSky
