“I discovered a star...”
As outlined in our previous post, READY, SET, GO! (LIVE, RIVERSIDE STUDIOS' 03) will be released on 12th April 2025, for Record Store Day.
Listen to and watch the live version of NEW KILLER STAR, the opening song from the show, here.
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“I got a better way, Ready, set, go!”
Parlophone Records is proud to announce the release of a David Bowie limited double vinyl LP and CD: READY, SET, GO! (LIVE, RIVERSIDE STUDIOS' 03) which will be released on 12th April 2025, for Record Store Day.
Keep reading for the full press release.
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DAVID BOWIE - READY, SET, GO! (LIVE, RIVERSIDE STUDIOS ’03)
LIMITED 14-TRACK VINYL DOUBLE ALBUM & CD
RELEASED BY PARLOPHONE EXCLUSIVELY FOR RECORD STORE DAY 12th APRIL 2025
Parlophone Records is proud to announce the release of a very special David Bowie limited double vinyl LP and CD READY, SET, GO! (LIVE, RIVERSIDE STUDIOS' 03) which will be released on 12th April , 2024, for Record Store Day.
On 8th September, 2003, David Bowie made history at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, London, with the biggest ever live and interactive music satellite event the world had seen to that point. The special one-off live concert was beamed simultaneously to fans in 86 cinemas in 26 countries, from Hong Kong to Helsinki, and 14 screens in Paris alone were dedicated to the show.
Bowie and his band unveiled the first-ever live performance of his new album REALITY, released a week later. Now, for the first time, the eleven-song main set, the REALITY album in its entirety, plus three previously unreleased tracks from the encore, will be available on double vinyl and single CD exclusively for Record Store Day 2025.
The event marked many firsts in technological terms; it was the biggest ever non-TV satellite broadcast, the first ever interactive cinema event via a Q&A element hosted by Bowie fan and broadcaster Jonathan Ross and the first live satellite event in 5.1 DTS surround sound, which was overseen by longtime collaborator, Tony Visconti.
The precedent-setting event also went live across Asia a day later with a live Q&A between David and fans in Japan, Australia, Singapore, and Southeast Asia. The event was also beamed to North and South America, and Canada the day the album was released, with David doing brand new live Q&A sessions for those broadcasts.
DAVID BOWIE - READY, SET, GO! (LIVE, RIVERSIDE STUDIOS ’03)
2LP
Side 1
New Killer Star
Pablo Picasso
Never Get Old
Side 2
The Loneliest Guy
Looking For Water
She’ll Drive The Big Car
Side 3
Days
Fall Dog Bombs The Moon
Try Some, Buy Some
Reality
Side 4
Bring Me The Disco King
Hallo Spaceboy
Cactus
Afraid
CD
New Killer Star
Pablo Picasso
Never Get Old
The Loneliest Guy
Looking For Water
She’ll Drive The Big Car
Days
Fall Dog Bombs The Moon
Try Some, Buy Some
Reality
Bring Me The Disco King
Hallo Spaceboy
Cactus
Afraid
Produced by David Bowie and Tony Visconti.
Vocal, Guitar: David Bowie
Keyboards: Mike Garson
Bass, Vocals: Gail Ann Dorsey
Guitars: Earl Slick
Guitars, Vocals: Gerry Leonard
Drums: Sterling Campbell
Keyboards, Guitar, Vocals: Catherine Russell
DAVID BOWIE - READY, SET, GO! (LIVE, RIVERSIDE STUDIOS ’03)
LIMITED 14-TRACK VINYL DOUBLE ALBUM & CD RELEASED BY PARLOPHONE EXCLUSIVELY FOR RECORD STORE DAY 12th APRIL, 2025
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“I got you to kiss goodnight...” *
Very sad to learn of the passing of Marianne Faithfull in London today at the age of 78.
It seems somehow appropriate to republish the words she posted following David’s death in 2016, as they could have been written for her...
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January 12, 2016
We had great fun (doing the 1980 Floor Show TV special back in 1973). He was a huge artist. All my love to his family. RIP & go well Dave! you are one of the greatest Artists of our time, or at any rate my time; Go well
xxxxx Marianne.
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Brian Aris captured this beautiful portrait of Marianne with David in 1991.
* The lyric here is from the Sonny and Cher song I Got You Babe, which Marianne performed dressed in a backless nun’s habit in an unforgettable duet with David during The 1980 Floor Show.
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“And the rain sets in, It's the angel-man, I'm deranged...”
We’re deeply saddened by the passing of David Lynch. Bowie himself cited Lynch’s work as an influence and who could forget seeing DB as FBI Special Agent Phillip Jeffries in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
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RIP DAVID LYNCH
“And the rain sets in, It's the angel-man, I'm deranged...” *
We’re deeply saddened by the passing of David Lynch. You’ll be aware of his work through the incredible body of films he directed.
Bowie himself cited Lynch’s work as an influence and who could forget seeing DB as FBI Special Agent Phillip Jeffries, first introduced to viewers in Lynch’s 1992 prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, with further appearances by the special agent in Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces and Twin Peaks: The Return.
Here’s his family’s Facebook announcement...
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It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch. We would appreciate some privacy at this time. There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. But, as he would say, “Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.”
It’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way.
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“In heaven, everything is fine...”
* Our lyric quotation is from I’m Deranged, two different edits of which appeared on the soundtrack of Lynch’s Lost Highway.
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“Young American, young American, you want the young American...”
DAVID BOWIE YOUNG AMERICANS
50th ANNIVERSARY HALF SPEED MASTERED LP
50th ANNIVERSARY PICTURE DISC LP WITH POSTER
LIMITED EDITION RELEASES
AVAILABLE 7th MARCH, 2025 ON PARLOPHONE
PRE-ORDER HERE (Link will be updated throughout the day)
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7th March 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of David Bowie's ninth studio album, YOUNG AMERICANS.
On the exact day of its Golden Jubilee, YOUNG AMERICANS will be issued as a limited edition 50th anniversary half-speed mastered LP and a picture disc LP pressed from the same master. The picture disc comes with a poster of the album cover.
The album saw Bowie broaden his musical horizons once more, embracing what he called 'Plastic Soul' and would give Bowie his first number one single in the U.S., ‘FAME’, co-written with John Lennon and Bowie's then guitarist, Carlos Alomar.
The album was partly influenced by the 'Philly Sound' and recorded in Philadelphia at Sigma Sound studios during a break in the DIAMOND DOGS tour with a band that featured amongst others Bowie stalwart Mike Garson on keys, along with the late Luther Vandross on vocals and David Sanborn on saxophone.
During the Tony Visconti produced sessions at Sigma Sound, Bowie immersed himself in soul music and created a new persona called The Gouster, a slang term for a hip street character. An early version of the album using this title was issued on the boxset WHO CAN I BE NOW? (1974-1976).
When the tour recommenced, Bowie radically reworked the setlist to incorporate the new material and stripped the elaborate production of the tour back to reflect a radically new musical direction. At the end of the tour in December ’74, sessions continued at The Record Plant and, while recording in New York, Bowie connected with John Lennon, where they recorded a cover of The Beatles ‘ACROSS THE UNIVERSE’ and a new collaborative composition, ‘FAME’ at Electric Lady Studios. The New York sessions were co-produced by David and Record Plant engineer Harry Maslin.
Bowie opted not to tour following YOUNG AMERICANS’ release, and within nine months, had moved on again, releasing his next album, STATION TO STATION, and reinventing himself once again in the persona of The Thin White Duke.
This new pressing of YOUNG AMERICANS was cut on a customised late Neumann VMS80 lathe with fully recapped electronics from 192kHz restored masters of the original Record Plant master tapes, with no additional processing on transfer. The half-speed was cut by John Webber at AIR Studios.
DAVID BOWIE - YOUNG AMERICANS - TRACKLISTING
SIDE ONE
Young Americans
Win
Fascination
Right
SIDE TWO
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Across The Universe
Can You Hear Me
Fame
YOUNG AMERICANS
50th ANNIVERSARY HALF SPEED MASTERED LP
50th ANNIVERSARY PICTURE DISC LP WITH POSTER
AVAILABLE 7th MARCH, 2025 ON PARLOPHONE
(Original photo by Helmut Newton, 1983)
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“Slim tie, Showdown, Can't stop…” *
It’s 8th January in David Bowie’s UK birthplace and it’s wonderful to see all the appreciation already shown for him around the globe on what would have been his 78th birthday today.
The love for DB via social posts, live tributes and fan meetings is quite incredible. You know how moved he would have been.
The image we’ve used was taken on David’s 28th birthday on this day in 1975. He was snapped by Robin Platzer at the star-studded opening of the Lajeski Gallery in New York, where sixty artists exhibited their interpretation of ‘The Condition of the Tie today'.
Here’s an edited excerpt from a report in The New York Times headed: The Theme Was Ties, the Opening Slightly Mad...
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The show’s theme was “The Condition of the Tie Today,” and its purpose was, as Yoko Ono, artist and former Beatle wife, put it, “fun in this time of depression.”
So for fun's sake, if not always for art's sake, about 1,000 guests and gate‐crashers from the worlds of art, fashion, music and theater and from the fringes of these worlds, jammed into 22‐yearold Gary Lajeski's new chrome and glass winter digs in the old Valentino building. It's an extension of his Tower Gallery in Southampton.
They came with and without tie and in a variety of dress and undress.
Pop singers, ranging from glitter (David Bowie) to bubble gum (David Cassidy), mingled with actors and socialites who were trundled back and forth from the Plaza Hotel by carriage.
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* Actually, Bowie’s tie was far from slim, having been a fan of neckwear as a statement for some time already.
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