The Bowie Years Volume 4

“And the next day, And the next, And another day”

The folk at Anthem Publishing have been in touch with details of the fourth and final instalment of The Bowie Years and here are they are...

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The fourth and final volume of The Bowie Years, From Outsider To Blackstar, explores the creative, experimental brilliance of Bowie’s later period. We pick up almost immediately where we left of in volume 3, when Bowie, his creative spark restored by The Buddha Of Suburbia soundtrack, reunited with Brian Eno to record the remarkable, challenging 1. Outside in 1995.

It set the experimental, avant garde template for the following two decades of his recording life, whether it was the electronica of Earthling, the brooding art-rock of Heathen, the startling nostalgia of The Next Day and of course, the wonderful jazz-tinged coda to everything that is Blackstar.

Inside this 132-page collector’s edition, our experts chart the varied and polarising work David Bowie created between 1994 and 2016, analysing each diverse album of the period on a track by track basis, while also pulling out a playlist of lesser known gems for you to get your ears round.

What’s more, we also explore Bowie’s relationship with his varied collaborators in this era – including brand new interviews with long-time pianist Mike Garson, producer Mark Plati, composer Maria Schneider and Blackstar bandleader Donny McCaslin.

From Outsider To Blackstar is the final bittersweet chapter of The Bowie Years, which goes in-depth with the remarkable music that Bowie was creating right until his sad passing. It’s a must-own for all true Bowie fans, so be sure to make it part of your collection today.

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The Bowie Years Volume 4 is available from Thursday 18th October, pre-order here:

There’s also a 25% saving in the offing if you’re interested in the complete Bowie Years collection, which, to our reckoning, is one complete instalment for free!

#TheBowieYears 

Bowie’s TOTPs debut 49 years ago tonight

“5, 4, 3, 2, 1, LIFT OFF...”

The story is in the headline. You all know Space Oddity, but unless you saw this Top Of The Pops performance at the time, you won't be familiar with the moment that David Bowie first got proper mass exposure on UK TV, as it's another piece of footage that went to the BBC wipers to be lost forever.

Taped the previous week on 2nd October when the song was finally threatening the Top 20 (it was released three months earlier on 11th July), Bowie’s solo performance saw him accompanied by 12-string guitar and his trusty Stylophone to a backing prepared by Gus Dudgeon, synchronised to the BBC orchestra.

The performance was repeated the following week on 16th October and these showings helped the song to its peak position of #5 in November.

The 1975 reissue of Space Oddity was the first single in the UK to reach the #1 spot after having previously been a Top 5 hit.

Anyway, Space Oddity was the hit that stepped things up considerably for Bowie, even if it was almost another three years before a very different looking spaceman began his world domination via Starman on Top Of The Pops.

#BowieSpaceOddity

Tune in to 6 Music Monday morning

“Through morning's thoughts and fantasies”

Tune in to the  BBC Radio 6 Music Breakfast Show for some exciting David Bowie news on Monday morning (8th October) around 9:30am BST. 

8-page cover feature and 8 out of 10 LTA review in LLV

“I can make you happy every day of your life”

(LTA = Loving The Alien (1983 - 1988) - LLV = Long Live Vinyl magazine)

Already celebrating issue 20, LLV has featured Bowie regularly within its pages, and now the November 2018 issue has an 8-page feature and full page review (both by John Earls), focusing on LTA

Here’s a bit from longlivevinyl.net:

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As the exhaustive new 15-disc David Bowie boxset, Loving The Alien, hits the streets, Long Live Vinyl lifts the lid on the period between 1983-88 when Bowie became a global pop megastar.

Through exclusive interviews with Nile Rodgers, Carlos Alomar, Reeves Gabrels and Hugh Padgham, we bring you the inside story behind Bowie’s biggest decade, as well as an in-depth look at the reimagined Never Let Me Down 2018 album that’s the highlight of the new boxset.

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Aside from the 8-page feature, there’s an 8 out of 10 review for LTA: “In essence, Loving The Alien is an excellently curated document...”. On top of that is the cover and a full-page advert for LTA bringing the page count up to eleven.

The November issue of Long Live Vinyl is available now. More information and ordering links here.

David Bowie: Loving The Alien (1983 - 1988) is released on October 12th.

#LLV  #LTA  #BowieVinyl 

Bowie’s Glastonbury 2000 performance due November

“Someone passed some bliss among the crowd”

Find all the exciting details in the press release below.

Pre-order here.

#BowieGlasto2000

DAVID BOWIE ‘GLASTONBURY 2000’ - THE LEGENDARY FULL PERFORMANCE RELEASED FOR THE FIRST TIME INCLUDING MANY OF DAVID’S GREATEST HITS AND NEVER BEFORE SEEN FOOTAGE

2xCD/DVD, 3xLP, 2CD, DIGITAL,

HIGH RESOLUTION (48/24) DIGITAL

RELEASED 30th NOVEMBER, 2018

“Not only the greatest Glastonbury headline performance but the best headline slot at any festival ever” NME

All formats feature Life On Mars?, Changes, Let's Dance, Under Pressure, “Heroes”, Fame, China Girl, Ashes To Ashes, Ziggy Stardust, Rebel Rebel, Station To Station, Golden Years, Absolute Beginners and many more.

2nd October 2018 London: Parlophone Records in association with BBC Studios and Glastonbury Festivals Ltd. are proud to announce DAVID BOWIE ‘GLASTONBURY 2000’ on 2CD/DVD, 3LP, 2CD and standard and high resolution digital formats documenting Bowie’s legendary Sunday night headline performance on 25th June at the most famous festival on earth.

The package includes the full 21 song greatest hits set and for the first time, a DVD of the entire show (only 37 minutes of which has ever been broadcast on TV) including the Glastonbury performance of ‘Heroes’, a highlight of the record breaking ‘David Bowie Is…’ exhibition and the only track that has been previously released.

All formats feature David’s diary, originally written for Time Out, which documents him preparing for the show in his own inimitable manner:

“As of 1990 I got through the rest of the 20th century without having to do a big hits show. Yes, yes, I know I did four or five hits on the later shows but I held out pretty well I thought…big, well known songs will litter the field at Glastonbury this year. Well, with a couple of quirks of course”.

In addition to newly mastered audio and upgraded video DAVID BOWIE ‘GLASTONBURY 2000’ features new artwork from Jonathan Barnbrook (who worked with Bowie on the sleeves for Heathen, The Next Day & ★) and notes from the renowned author and Bowie fan Caitlin Moran who reviewed the show for The Times.

The package features photos of Bowie resplendently dressed in a 3/4 length one-of-a-kind Alexander McQueen frock coat, the pattern of which was made to echo the hat (the famous ‘bipperty-bopperty hat’ mentioned in the song Queen Bitch) and worn by David at his Glastonbury Fayre debut in 1971.

Glastonbury co-organiser Emily Eavis commented “I often get asked what the best set I've seen here at Glastonbury is, and Bowie's 2000 performance is always one which I think of first. It was spellbinding; he had an absolutely enormous crowd transfixed. I think Bowie had a very deep relationship with Worthy Farm and he told some wonderful stories about his first time at the Festival in 1971, when he stayed at the farmhouse and performed at 6am as the sun was rising. And he just played the perfect headline set. It really was a very special and emotional show”.

Emily’s father Michael, the founder of the festival who first met David at Glastonbury in 1971 said “He’s one of the three greatest of all-time: Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and David Bowie.”

DAVID BOWIE ‘GLASTONBURY 2000’ TRACKLISTING

2 x CD / DVD SET

CD 1

Introduction (Greensleeves)

Wild Is The Wind

China Girl

Changes

Stay

Life On Mars?

Absolute Beginners

Ashes To Ashes

Rebel Rebel

Little Wonder

Golden Years

CD 2

Fame

All The Young Dudes

The Man Who Sold The World

Station To Station

Starman

Hallo Spaceboy

Under Pressure

Ziggy Stardust

“Heroes”

Let’s Dance

I'm Afraid Of Americans

DVD

Introduction (Greensleeves)

Wild Is The Wind

China Girl

Changes

Stay

Life On Mars?

Absolute Beginners

Ashes To Ashes

Rebel Rebel

Little Wonder

Golden Years

Fame

All The Young Dudes

The Man Who Sold The World

Station To Station

Starman

Hallo Spaceboy

Under Pressure

Ziggy Stardust

“Heroes”

Let’s Dance

I'm Afraid Of Americans

3 x LP

Side 1

Introduction (Greensleeves)

Wild Is The Wind

China Girl

Changes

Side 2

Stay

Life On Mars?

Absolute Beginners

Side 3

Ashes To Ashes

Rebel Rebel

Little Wonder

Golden Years

Side 4

Fame

All The Young Dudes

The Man Who Sold The World

Station To Station

Side 5

Starman

Hallo Spaceboy

Under Pressure

Ziggy Stardust

Side 6

“Heroes”

Let’s Dance

I'm Afraid Of Americans

2 CD set / standard and high resolution (48kHz/24bit) digital

CD 1

Introduction (Greensleeves)

Wild Is The Wind

China Girl

Changes

Stay

Life On Mars?

Absolute Beginners

Ashes To Ashes

Rebel Rebel

Little Wonder

Golden Years

CD 2

Fame

All The Young Dudes

The Man Who Sold The World

Station To Station

Starman

Hallo Spaceboy

Under Pressure

Ziggy Stardust

“Heroes”

Let’s Dance

I'm Afraid Of Americans

DAVID BOWIE GLASTONBURY 2000 is released on Parlophone 30th November, 2018

Iggy Pop gives Bang Bang 2018 exclusive first play

“Bang Bang, I got mine”

BBC Radio 6 Music exclusively revealed David Bowie’s Bang Bang 2018 on the superb Iggy Confidential show yesterday.

Iggy Pop originally recorded Bang Bang for his album, Party, in 1981 and released it as a single later that same year. David Bowie was enamoured enough with the song to record his own version for Never Let Me Down in 1987.

Bang Bang featured in the setlist of The 1987 Glass Spider Tour. Indeed, a live version (recorded at the Olympic Stadium, Montreal Canada, on 30th August 1987), was issued as a US promo-only 4-track CD EP, which also included the LP version.

The LP version was singled out for issue as a promo-only 7" in Australia, possibly to tie in with the Australian tour dates in October/November 1987.

The 2018 version of Bang Bang with new string arrangement by Nico Muhly will feature on Mario McNulty's reconstruction of Never Let Me Down 2018, included in the upcoming David Bowie: Loving The Alien (1983-1988) set.

If you missed Iggy Confidential, catch up here and listen to what else Iggy had to say about Bang Bang.

#BowieIggy  #BangBang  #IggyConfidential  #LTAbox 

Breaking Glass EP 40th anniversary picture disc

“Breaking Glass in your room again”

DAVID BOWIE - BREAKING GLASS LIVE EP LIMITED EDITION 40th ANNIVERSARY 7" PICTURE DISC

* FEATURING FOUR PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS *

16th November 2018, sees the release of the latest limited DAVID BOWIE 7" picture disc, the 40th-anniversary edition of the BREAKING GLASS EP.

This new version of the EP features three previously unreleased live versions of the original EP tracks plus the addition of an unreleased live version of Hang On To Yourself.

The Breaking Glass EP now features: BREAKING GLASS, ART DECADE, HANG ON TO YOURSELF and ZIGGY STARDUST live from Earls Court in London during the Isolar II tour of 1978.

These four tracks are alternative performances to the ones that recently appeared on the critically acclaimed live album WELCOME TO THE BLACKOUT (LIVE LONDON ’78), and none were featured on the original 1978 EP.

Initially released in the UK in January 1977 on the ground-breaking LOW album, the studio version of Breaking Glass was co-written by Bowie, bassist George Murray and drummer Dennis Davis. A longer, reworked version of the song was a staple of the Isolar II Tour, and a live version from that tour was used as the lead track on the original live 7" EP to promote Bowie's second live album, STAGE, in 1978.

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DAVID BOWIE - BREAKING GLASS LIVE E.P. LIMITED EDITION 40th ANNIVERSARY 7" PICTURE DISC.

Side A

1. Breaking Glass (live) (3.22)

(David Bowie, George Murray & Dennis Davis)

2. Art Decade (live) (3.12)

(David Bowie)

Side AA

1. Hang On To Yourself (live) (2.38)

(David Bowie)

2. Ziggy Stardust (live) (3.35)

(David Bowie)

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All tracks previously unreleased.

Produced by David Bowie

Recorded live by Tony Visconti with The Manor Mobile

Mixed by David Bowie and David Richards at Mountain Studios, Montreux 17th-22nd January, 1979.

Recorded Live at Earls Court, London, 30th June and 1st July, 1978

The images used on the picture disc are by Masayoshi Sukita (A-Side) and Andrew Kent (AA-Side) taken during the Isolar II tour of 1978.

BREAKING GLASS LIVE E.P. is released on Parlophone 16th November, 2018.

#DBBG40  #BowieVinyl 

OUTSIDE album is 23 years old today

“The music is outside”

As you most likely know, David Bowie’s 1. Outside  album was released on 25th September, 1995, 23 years ago today.

What did you make of it when you first heard it, particularly considering its predecessors: Black Tie White Noise (April 1993) and The Buddha Of Suburbia (November 1993)?

Join in the debate over on BOWIE KOOKS.

#BowieOutside

Tonight album is 34 years old today

“The stars are out tonight”

David Bowie’s Tonight album was released on 24th September, 1984, 34 years ago today.

Though there were only three tracks on the album that David Bowie had no hand in the writing of, Tonight has a higher percentage of covers than any other Bowie album, aside from Pin Ups, Bowie’s 1973 covers LP.

With just two solo Bowie compositions and two new co-writes out of the nine tracks, five of the songs on Tonight could be considered cover versions.

Pop over to BOWIE KOOKS to join in the Tonight debate.

#BowieTonight

Scary Monsters is 38 today

“He opened strange doors that we'd never close again”

Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

Released: Friday 12 September 1980

Charted: Saturday 27 September 1980 @ #1

Today sees the 38th anniversary of Bowie’s Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps). You may have noticed that we don’t normally highlight anniversaries that aren't of five year increments: 50, 45, 40, etc., as every day would be filled with them if we tried to.

However, BOWIE KOOKS have a Scary Monsters Day over on the only Official David Bowie Facebook Fan Group.

#BowieScaryMonsters

BOWIE TV Episode 3

“BOO BAH BOO BAH BOO BAH”

In case you forgot to tune in yesterday, remember we are posting ‘David Bowie: Loving The Alien (1983-1988)’ related visual content on the Bowie socials and on YouTube every Wednesday and Sunday.

Each snippet features Bowie collaborators of the period, such as: Nile Rodgers, Mario McNulty, Reeves Gabrels, Carlos Alomar and Hugh Padgham...and on occasion, the man himself.

In episode 3 (http://smarturl.it/DBTV3YT), Nile Rodgers (Let's Dance co-producer), remembers how a bit of post-modernistic reinterpretation helped Bowie get the horns on Let’s Dance.

Check back on Wednesday at 3:00pm BST for the next Bowie TV instalment.

#BowieTV

Reality at Riverside 15 years ago tonight

“Welcome to Reality”

Fifteen years ago this evening, Bowie fans had made their way to the Riverside studios in London’s Hammersmith, or to their nearest cinema to witness the goings on at aforementioned venue.

For it was on 8th September 2003 that Bowie and band unleashed a live version of his upcoming album, Reality, to a small throng of lucky BowieNetters along with 50,000 fans around the globe by the magic of a satellite broadcast.

Before we leave you with an excerpt from the original US press release and the setlist, we should mention that you can view a photo album from the night over on BOWIE KOOKS, the only Official David Bowie Facebook Fan Group.

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DAVID BOWIE BRINGS ‘REALITY’ TO 50,000 FANS IN GLOBAL SATELITE CONCERT

BOWIE MAKES HISTORY WITH FIRST EVER LIVE, INTERACTIVE GLOBAL CINEMA EVENT

DAVID BOWIE made history this week with the biggest ever live and interactive music satellite event the world has ever seen.

The special one-off live concert was beamed via satellite Monday, September 8 from London’s Riverside Studios, simultaneously to 50,000 fans in 86 cinemas in 26 countries around the planet from Hong Kong to Helsinki. There were 14 screens in Paris alone dedicated to the show.

BOWIE thrilled fans across Europe with a spectacular, first-ever live performance of his brand new album REALITY, due September 16 on ISO/Columbia Records. The performance of the album was followed by precedent-setting interactive question and answer session between BOWIE and fans in cinemas in London, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Brussels and Milan.

The event marked many firsts in technological terms: it was the biggest ever non-TV satellite broadcast, the first ever interactive cinema event and the first live satellite event in 5.1 DTS surround sound, which was overseen by longtime BOWIE collaborator, Tony Visconti.

BOWIE—embarking October 7 on his first World Tour in almost a decade–thrilled fans in movie theaters with an exclusive preview of his new album REALITY to over 2000 people in Paris, a 1000 fans in London and thousands of fans in Berlin, Stockholm, Oslo, Dublin, Budapest and Copenhagen. There were reports across Europe of fans flocking to the front of the screen as though it were a live gig, and for the first time there was dancing in the aisles, much to the chagrin of the cinema ushers whom tried in vain to keep order!

This precedent-setting event also went live across Asia Tuesday, September 9 with a live Q&A between DAVID and fans in Japan, Australia, Singapore and across Southeast Asia. The event will also be beamed to North America (Canada as well as New York City) and South America Monday, September 15, with BOWIE doing brand new live question and answer sessions for those broadcasts.

The amazing one-off night was topped with a special set of fan favorites voted for by members of BOWIEnet, including Lodger’s “Fantastic Voyage,” “Hang on To Yourself” from Ziggy Stardust and “Hallo Spaceboy” from Outside.

As a special treat to the cinema crowd, BOWIE also performed an unscheduled set of songs at the end of the show, which included the classic “Modern Love” and a duo of tracks,”Cactus” and “Afraid” from last year’s widely acclaimed, million-selling album Heathen.

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Here’s the full setlist:

Warm up:

A New Career In A New Town

Plus short snippets of Blur’s Song 2 and Link Wray’s Rumble

Main set:

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

(Satellite questions and answer session with Jonathan Ross)

Extra set for live audience:

Hallo Spaceboy

Fantastic Voyage

Hang On To Yourself

Modern Love

Cactus

Afraid

New Killer Star

One thing that doesn't come across in the press release is the hilarious banter between Bowie and the assembled BowieNetters and celebrities.

#BowieReality

BOWIE TV Episode 2

“You know, I'll give you television”

To complement the release of ‘David Bowie: Loving The Alien (1983-1988)’ (LTA), we will be posting short LTA-related visual content on the Bowie socials and on YouTube every Wednesday and Sunday.

Each snippet features Bowie collaborators of the period, such as: Nile Rodgers, Mario McNulty, Reeves Gabrels, Carlos Alomar and Hugh Padgham...and on occasion, the man himself.

In episode 2, Nile Rodgers, (Let's Dance co-producer) discusses rearranging China Girl with David Bowie.

Check back on Sunday at 3:00pm BST for the next Bowie TV instalment.

#BowieTV

BOWIE TV Episode 1

“If I can talk on television...”

To complement the release of ‘David Bowie: Loving The Alien (1983-1988)’ (LTA), we will be posting short LTA-related visual content on the Bowie socials and on YouTube every Wednesday and Sunday.

Each snippet features Bowie collaborators of the period, such as: Nile Rodgers, Mario McNulty, Reeves Gabrels, Carlos Alomar and Hugh Padgham...and on occasion, the man himself.

In the first of the series, David Bowie discusses some of the ingredients that inspired him while making the Let’s Dance album.

Check back on Wednesday at 3:00pm BST for the next Bowie TV instalment.

#BowieTV

BowieNet is nearly 20 - were you at the birth?

“And I'm gone through the crack in the past”

Following the launch of www.bowieart.com the previous December, a BowieNet pre-launch site was hastily posted on the www.davidbowie.com home page in August 1998 (due to prematurely released information by EMI-Canada) and BowieNet proper was announced worldwide, 20 years ago on this very day.

BowieNet was then activated fully, four days later on September 1st, 1998.

Were you there at the launch? Tell us your memories of the early days of www.davidbowie.com here.

#BowieNet20

Farewell to Lindsay Kemp

“Threepenny Pierrot, we love you”

Sad to report the passing of Lindsay Kemp, who died aged 80 on Friday night in the Italian port city of Livorno on the west coast of Tuscany.

Bowie fans will be most familiar with the dancer, mime artist and choreographer through his work with Bowie, particularly the Ziggy Stardust presentation at London's Rainbow Theatre in 1972. Mick Rock captured rehearsal footage of Lindsay and his troupe at rehearsals and utilised it in the quite beautiful, John, I'm Only Dancing video.

David had dance and mime lessons with Lindsay in Floral Street, Covent Garden, in 1967, later touring with him in Pierrot In Turquoise in the UK. The play contained a handful of Bowie originals (When I Live My Dream, Columbine, The Mirror and Threepeny Pierrot), and the performance was captured for posterity in a different 25 minute format for Scottish TV in 1970, wherein David performed When I Live My Dream up a step ladder as the character Cloud.

Read the full transcript of Michael Bonner’s interview with Lindsay Kemp about Bowie over at UNCUT.

Lindsay Kemp 3rd May 1938 - 24th August 2018

#BowieKemp

Happy 18th birthday to Lexi

“Baby, baby, brush the dust of youth from off your shoulder”

We’re sure you will all want to join us in wishing many happy returns of the day to Alexandria Zahra Jones on her 18th birthday.

The colour picture on the left is of Lexi and her father, posted by Lexi on Fathers' Day. The image below that is of the tattoo she had done last year.

The picture on the right is of the recently turned 18-year-old Manish Boy, Davie Jones, outside the BBC during a lifelong occupational hazard...a fuss being made about his hair. But that’s a whole other story.

Happy Birthday Lexi, here’s wishing you love ‘n stuff from everybody here.

#HappyBirthdayLexi  #LEXIZAHRA  #HBD18

Glass Spider in New Jersey 31 years ago today

“I like the tee shirts in”

Thirty one years ago today, David Bowie played the second of two dates at the Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, as the third and fourth dates of the North American leg of his 1987 Glass Spider World Tour.

If you subscribe to the newsletter, you will have seen the latest addition to the Bowie Official Store in the shape of this reproduction of one of the original tour T-shirts. The partial listing of North American tour dates on the reverse commences with these shows.

Pre-order here.

#GlassSpiderTour

Stephen Street praises Zeroes (2018)

“I’m Street side out with my ear to the crowd”

Five Years ago (pun intended) we featured top-hole record producer Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur, Suede, Peter Doherty), when he chose Ziggy Stardust for Danny Baker’s Great Album Showdown on BBC4, back in February 2013.

Explaining that the 1972 classic was the first LP he ever bought, he then went on to describe the record as life-changing: “I was captivated”. Street also pointed out that the musicians he has worked with over the years have a love of Bowie’s music in common.

Baker was in agreement with Street’s ‘life-changing’ theory when he suggested of Ziggy Stardust: “It seems absurd in these days to talk about an LP that could culturally change everything. But it did.“

Now Mr Street has given the reworked Zeroes (2018) the thumbs up on Twitter:

“Actually, the 2018 version of Zeroes is more than 'pretty good'. It is a major overhaul that completely puts the original version in the shade. Great work by all involved. Boy, what would I give to have been able to work on this!”

You can pre-order the 2018 Mario McNulty produced Zeroes/Beat Of Your Drum 7" picture disc here and read the press release here.

FOOTNOTE: Today’s lyric quotation is from the song Sweet Head, a song first released as a bonus track on the 1990 Rykodisc issue of Ziggy Stardust, appropriately enough.

#LTAbox  #NLMD2018  #BowieZeroes

Bowie Collector: I AM IMAN CD

“I’ll leave my love between the stars”

Firstly, have a great rest of your birthday, Iman, from all of us here at DvidBowie.com, (still three and a half hours to go in New York).

On the occasion of Iman’s birthday we thought it appropriate to follow up on an item regarding her book: The Beauty of Color (2005), which we posted about recently. 

The book was promoted with an accompanying very limited edition CD and our post was triggered by Iman’s own Instagram item regarding the book.

The same applies for today’s Bowie Collector feature, following another item on Iman’s Instagram back in February, wherein she credited the beautiful cover photography thus: “The front and back cover of my book I AM IMAN photo by Markus Klinko and Indrani 2000”.

As with The Beauty of Color, the promotion of I AM IMAN (2001) created another of the more collectable Bowie CDs, even if it seems easier to find than the aforementioned follow up. This is most likely down to the fact that a number of copies were available to purchase and win via giveaways through BowieNet.

I AM IMAN is a 5-track compilation CDR, containing the following tracks:

1 - The Wedding (David Bowie)

2 - Wild Is The Wind (Tiomkin/Washington)

3 - Loving The Alien (David Bowie)

4 - As The World Falls Down (David Bowie)

5 - Abdulmajid (David Bowie/Brian Eno)

This promo only private pressing (commissioned and compiled by Bowie), was signed by the man himself with copies of the book signed by Iman.

Again, only 200 copies of the CDR were made, making this another of the rarest Bowie collectables. Both the signed CDR and the signed book make the set and it is considered incomplete by collectors without one or the other.

Stay tuned for more Bowie collectables shortly and feel free to suggest anything you would like us to feature.

#BowieCollector  #DavidAndIman  #BowieForever