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DAVID BOWIE – Deluxe Box Set Reissue Of Brilliant ‘ZIGGY STARDUST’ Album Comes In June

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24 March 2024

Late musical genius DAVID BOWIE flabbergasted the rock world with his seminal album THE RISE AND FALL ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS BACK IN 1972.

The news just came in that a deluxe 5CD and 1 Blu-Ray Audio set,
called ROCK ‘N’ ROLL STAR! will be out on June 147.

‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Star!’ contains 29 unreleased tracks, covers early songwriting demos, recordings from The Arnold Corns, rehearsals at Haddon Hall, BBC sessions, singles, live performances, plus out-takes and alternative versions from the original album recording sessions, which have been newly mixed by original album producer, Ken Scott.

Here’s a taster. A Ziggy Stardust demo, recorded by Bowie on vocal
and acoustic guitar in March 1971 at Haddon Hall in Beckenham.

The audio-only Blu-Ray disc features the definitive 2012 remaster of the original Ziggy Stardust album in 96kHz/24bit PCM stereo, plus the album and additional mixes from 2003 in DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 as well as the singles, out-takes and alternative versions in 96kHz/24 bit PCM stereo.

Rock ‘n’ Roll Star! also contains two books. The first is an extensive 112-page book with detailed liner notes, memorabilia, contemporary reviews and articles, rare photographs, as well as brand-new notes and interviews. Accompanying the main book is a 36-page compiled reproduction of Bowie’s personal Ziggy-era notebooks.

You can order a deluxe box set copy HERE.

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BOWIE: Bio – Discography – Website

Waking Up With… STARMAN

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Works faster than caffeine

11 July 2022

Last June, 50 years ago the late genius DAVID BOWIE released his magnum
opus The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

For that occasion, the audio of Bowie‘s performance of stellar single STARMAN
on the iconic British music TV show, Top Of The Pops back in 1972 was adapted
by the BBC and shared last month. And now the quality of the video of that historic perfomance is updated too.

Here comes the Starman and his buddy Mick Ronson

DAVID BOWIE: Website

ZIGGY BOWIE STARDUST Released Otherwordly Classic ‘STARMAN’ 50 Years Ago Today

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Top singles from the past

14 April 2022

DAVID BOWIE released the stellar and otherworldly STARMAN single on 14 April 1972, today 50 years ago. It’s the fourth track on his magnum opus The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars which revealed his best-known artistic persona ever.

It was his first hit since ‘Space Oddity’ three years
before, in 1969. Starman peaked at #10 in the UK.

He’d like to come and meet us
But he thinks he’d blow our minds
There’s a starman waiting in the sky
He’s told us not to blow it
‘Cause he knows it’s all worthwhile
He told me
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie

Here’s the iconic Top Of The Pops performance featuring the great, late Mick Ronson…

DAVID BOWIE: Website – Facebook – Discography

SHARON VAN ETTEN Is A STARMAN For 70 Seconds

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11 April 2022

Beaut songstress SHARON VAN ETTEN just announced her 6th full-length WE’VE BEEN GOING ABOUT THIS ALL WRONG, out on 6 May. In the weeks before she shared two
new songs that will, weirdly, not be on that album.

And this 70 seconds of covering David Bowie‘s STARMAN (which came out 50 years ago)
won’t be on it either. It’s actually the end-credits song for the new Netflix documentary Return To Space about Eton Musk and his obsession for space missions.

Only 70 seconds, but quite special ones…

Bowie‘s original…

SHARON VAN ETTEN: Facebook

DAVID BOWIE Released ‘STARMAN’ Today In 1972

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14 April 2020

DAVID BOWIE released the stellar and otherworldly ‘STARMAN’ single on 14 April 1972, today 48 years ago. It’s the fourth track on his legendary LP The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars which launched his best-known artistic persona ever. It was actually his first hit since ‘Space Oddity’ three years before, in 1969. Starman peaked at #10 in the UK.

He’d like to come and meet us
But he thinks he’d blow our minds
There’s a starman waiting in the sky
He’s told us not to blow it
‘Cause he knows it’s all worthwhile
He told me
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie

Here’s the Top Of The Pops performance back then featuring the great, late Mick Ronson…

DAVID BOWIE: Website – Facebook – Discography