Bleep

2012 remastered edition inc. an audio DVD with additional tracks: Moonage Daydream (instrumental), The Supermen, Velvet Goldmine and Sweet Head - remixed in 5.1 48/24 DTS & Dolby Digital / Stereo / 11 tracks

This album saw David Bowie at one of most creative eras in his long and illustrious career. Loosely based on the story of a fictional rock star named Ziggy Stardust, a human manifestation of an alien being who is attempting to present humanity with a message of hope in the last five years of its existence. A pivotal album that has been universally acclaimed as one of the most essential rock albums from the '70s.

Aladdin Sane on bloody vinyl!? You better believe it, 2016 heads. 1973 saw Bowie’s sixth record which opens with the chugging, back-room boogie blues screamer, ‘Watch That Man’ – and doesn’t look back. Elsewhere, Bowie and the mighty Spiders From Mars (Hull’s finest), take us through swooning blue-eyed Rock n Roll (‘Drive In Saturday’), psychedelic post-Beatles pop (‘The Prettiest Star’), raucous proto-punk on the Rolling Stones cover ‘Let’s Spend The Night Together’, and the album’s big single – ‘The Jean Genie’. ‘Nuff said.

Special Vinyl Edition lands from Mars! The Fourth Bowie Album, and the one that would smash his name through to the Other Side of pop stardom. All Music’s Erlewine describes the record thus “a kaleidoscopic array of pop styles, tied together only by Bowie's sense of vision: a sweeping, cinematic mélange of high and low art, ambiguous sexuality, kitsch, and class”, and we can’t do much better than that. Lower the needle for a 41 minute ride through ‘Changes’, ‘Oh You Pretty Things’ (best opening two tracks on an album, ever?), ‘Life on Mars’ (a clue to where he goes next), ‘Bewlay Brothers’ (a stirring, spine-tingling folk space-Odyssey). It don’t get much better than this (well, in Bowie’s case it actually does).

2016 Vinyl Version Finally Arrives! Described by many as the first Bowie album ‘proper’, The Man Who Sold The World also witnessed the first incarnation of Hull’s finest, The Spiders From Mars joining Bowie as his official backing band. Tony Visconti is there also; in the studio adding layers of swirling, psyched-out FX and studio trickery to tracks like the title, the shredding overdriven metal visions of ‘Black Country Rock’, or the Sabbath-like dirge of ‘She Shook Me Cold’, and the thrilling operatic prog-excess of ‘The Supermen’. An incredible trip.

Released in November 1969, David Bowie's second studio album 'Space Oddity' is often seen as the first example of the musician hitting his stride. The title track, an eerie acoustic song augmented by squiggles of stylophone and inspired by the stillness and isolation of Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey', gave Bowie a number 5 hit in the UK charts. The rest of the record is made up of stranger fare - the rough guitars of 'Unwashed and Slightly Dazed', the nine minute folk rock masterpiece 'Cygnet Committe' and 'Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud', which has the distinction of being Bowie's first collaboration with guitarist Mick Ronson, and includes a full orchestra.