Limited 180gm vinyl lp 40th anniversary pressing.
Space oddity 40th anniversary edition vinyl.
The album produced by tony visconti bar space oddity itself which was produced by the late gus dudgeon was a giant leap forward in terms of songwriting for bowie compared to his eponymous debut and can be considered as the first truly essential david bowie album.
I love the singles and if i was to review the music alone i would naturally give it 5 stars the media it came on is terrible however.
Parlophone will issue a special limited edition 12 inch vinyl picture disc of david bowie s space oddity album next month.
This extremely limited edition pressing of 3000 copies will be released on july 11th 2019 50 years to the day from the july 11th 1969 uk release of the original space oddity.
The picture disc reverts to the rather iconic but inaccurate ziggy era artwork given to the album when it was re released by rca in the wake of the success of the rise and fall of ziggy stardust.
David bowie space oddity 40th anniversary edition john tatlock october 16th 2009 10 48.
Picture disc of 1969 album reissue artwork available everywhere.
This was bowie s slow climber to get to no 1 in the charts released in 1969 and got to no 5 but was re released in 1975 where it went to no 1 in the singles charts.
The a side has quite a colourful picture which looks like an amateurish hand drawn cover with a period picture of bowie added in.
In pop music everything eventually becomes heritage.
And when any given act becomes successful enough even their failures are forgiven and welcomed into the canon.
40th anniversary of bowie s space oddity single.