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Awesome! David Bowie “Five Years 1969-1973” Boxed Set Coming In September

Fans of the prolific David Bowie might be standing at attention at the news about this massive boxed-set. It’s one of many to come so check out the full press release and image down below. I’ll close out with some editorial for sure. Here we go.

The Press Release:
“Five Years, what a surprise”. Commencing countdown, engines on, check ignition and may God’s love be with you…The first in a series of David Bowie Box Sets to be released on September 25th.

June 23rd 2015 London; On this day in 1971, David Bowie performed for the first time at what was then known as the ‘Glastonbury Fair’. Today in 2015 as the Glastonbury Festival approaches once more, Parlophone Records are proud to announce DAVID BOWIE FIVE YEARS 1969 – 1973, the first in a series of box sets spanning his career.

The ten album / twelve CD box, ten album / thirteen-piece vinyl set and digital download featurs all of the material officially released by Bowie during the nascent stage of his career from 1969 to 1973. All of the formats include tracks that have never before appeared on CD/digitally as well as new remasters.

Exclusive to the box sets will be Re:Call 1, a new 2-disc compilation of non-album singles, single versions & B-sides. It features a previously unreleased single edit of All The Madmen, which was originally set for a US release but was never actually issued. Also included is the original version of Holy Holy, which was only ever released on the original 1971 Mercury single and hasn’t been available on any official release since.
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“Live Santa Monica ‘72” by David Bowie

Artist: David Bowie
Title: “Live Santa Monica ‘72”
Label: Virgin Music
Release Date: 7/22/2008
Genre: Rock
Rating: 5/5

Recorded at the Santa Monica auditorium in 1972, David Bowie’s “Live Santa Monica ‘72” is a special release for a number of different reasons and the first one is that the recording finds the singer doing it during his first US tour ever. It’s also important to note that the he had only recently introduced the world to his enigmatic alter ego Ziggy Stardust, and as result a number of the tracks would come from his “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars” album. This would also be his first radio broadcast and it aired live as it happened – believe it or not, before this CD was released, the only way that fans could enjoy the songs from this show was on a very well circulated bootleg. Since this was the case I am saying with certain levels of zeal “it’s about time”. Music fans all know full well the talents that David Bowie possesses and that his work over the decades has been nothing short of prolific. One can listen to his earliest compositions and still find that they stand strong against anything that is released today. His alter ego of Ziggy Stardust was a different matter altogether and a work of genius in its own right, as during this time he actually stopped being David Bowie and morphed into the space travelling musician called Ziggy.
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