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Amazon USA
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZXWT4PC/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon Canada
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Amazon UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ZXWT4PC/?tag=imwan-21

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FIVE YEARS 1969 – 1973 box set due September
Commencing countdown, engines on, check ignition and may God's love be with you…

DAVID BOWIE
FIVE YEARS 1969 – 1973

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.

Also exclusive to all versions of Five Years 1969 – 1973 will be a 2003 stereo remix of ‘The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars’ by the album’s original co-producer, Ken Scott, previously only available on DVD with the LP/DVD format of the 40th anniversary edition of the album.

The vinyl box set has the same content as the CD set pressed on audiophile quality 180g vinyl.

The box set’s accompanying book, 128 pages in the CD box and 84 in the vinyl set, will feature rarely seen photos as well as technical notes about each album from producers Tony Visconti and Ken Scott, an original press review for each album and a short foreword by legendary Kinks front man Ray Davies.

The CD box set will include faithfully reproduced mini-vinyl versions of the original albums and the CDs will be gold rather than the usual silver.

An alternate cover has been created for the 2003 mix of Ziggy Stardust by Ken Scott, which features an outtake from the original Heddon Street photo session. There is also newly originated artwork for Re:Call 1 featuring a 1973 in-studio image from renowned photographer Mick Rock.

DAVID BOWIE FIVE YEARS 1969 – 1973

6 Original Studio Albums:
David Bowie AKA Space Oddity*
The Man Who Sold The World*
Hunky Dory*
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
Aladdin Sane
PinUps*

*New 2015 Remasters.

2 Live Albums:
Live Santa Monica ‘72
Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture Soundtrack

Exclusive to the Box Sets:
The Rise and Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (2003 Ken Scott mix)
Re:Call 1 (2CD set)

Re:Call 1 tracklisting

CD1
Space Oddity (original UK mono single edit)*
Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (original UK mono single version)*
Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola
The Prettiest Star (original mono single version)*
Conversation Piece*
Memory Of A Free Festival (Part 1)
Memory Of A Free Festival (Part 2)
All The Madmen (mono single edit)* previously unreleased
Janine*
Holy Holy (original mono single version)* only ever issued on original ‘71 Mercury single
Moonage Daydream (The Arnold Corns single version)*
Hang On To Yourself (The Arnold Corns single version)*

CD 2
Changes (mono single version)*
Andy Warhol (mono single version)*
Starman (original single mix)
John, I’m Only Dancing (original single version)
The Jean Genie (original single mix)
Drive-In Saturday (German single edit)
Round And Round
John, I’m Only Dancing (sax version)
Time (U.S. single edit)
Amsterdam
Holy Holy (Spiders version)
Velvet Goldmine

All tracks stereo except *mono.

The vinyl box set has the same content as the CD box set pressed on audiophile 180g vinyl.

Formats:
CD Box Set 0825646284085 (UK Cat No: DBX 1)
Vinyl Box Set 0825646284092 (UK Cat No: DBXL 1)
Digital download 0825646070602

DAVID BOWIE FIVE YEARS 1969 – 1973 is released 25th September on Parlophone Records

Very interesting. Why didn't they re-master "Aladdin Sane" though?

Rick A.

Fantastic as I have virtually none of this on CD.

Labels have been having tremendous success with these albums box sets and it's continuing rapidly.

Can't wait for the whole series.

That looks really cool. My favorite era o' Bowie.

Bump: So far the box set has only been listed at Amazon France. We're awaiting its appearance at Amazons USA, Canada and UK -- links are now in the first post, but the listings are not up yet. They should be soon.

Rick brought us an image of the entire package, and I've moved that up to the first post.

Hoping Sony will release this in the US as part of their deal with Bowie.

I own every Bowie album 3 times already, I have to buy them again??? Yikes!

l'll get this

Geff will want this I'm sure

Both Ziggy and Aladdin were remastered a couple of years ago and sound fantastic.

I have some interest. Just how much will depend on level of volume compression & bit rate of the downloads. Unfortunately, based on the 3 disc set, I'm not too optimistic.

This is the best part of his career though, imo. I wish it included Diamond Dogs, which belongs here, not next to the putrid Young Americans (even Bowie has been quoted as saying YA sucks!)

The British pre-order listing is up:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ZXWT4PC/?tag=imwan-21

Still awaiting American and Canadian links as I type this ....

I've got all of these in some boxed set or other, but this does look like something worth having. He did some seriously underrated stuff in this era - The Man Who Sold The World is probably my favourite Bowie album of all time.

That's awfully pricy; at least we get to save until September to afford it!

Btw.....yesterday was the 42nd anniversary of the release of the single "Is There Life On Mars?" 6/22/1973. It's significant for me because I was over in Ireland that Summer and bought the 45 at the age of 13. A real early Bowie fan.

It's still probably my favorite Bowie single.

What a great song. You do know the "My Way" story?

The domestic listing page is active now:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZXWT4PC/?tag=imwan-20

(Jimbo, the American release is also through Parlophone/Warner.)

As long as we're getting a US release, it's all good.

FREE PIN UPS RADIO SHOW WITH FIVE YEARS PRE-ORDER

“Five Years, stuck on my eyes”

Available exclusively from the Official David Bowie Online Store free with your pre-order is The David Bowie Pin Ups Radio Show 10" or CD. The 10" vinyl is available with the vinyl box while a CD version is available with the CD box.

Previously only available on Spotify, this program was issued to mark the 40th Anniversary of the album Pin Ups in 2013.

This extremely limited collectable, one-sided EP or CD, features snippets from the Pin Ups album interspersed with observations from David Bowie regarding the bands he covers on the album.

Read more about the David Bowie Pin Ups Radio Show here:
http://www.davidbowie.com/news/bbc-radi ... sive-52146

That is f'ng cool!

Yeah, but how much more are you willing to pay to order through Bowie.com rather than Amazon or another discount retailer?

I made a really bad decision on Station to Station SDE. All I wanted was the 96/24 dvd. I got an advance of the entire set a couple years ago on ebay for $30.

Before shipping, the seller realized the dvd was burned & offered me the chance to cancel.. I accepted. That burned version now goes for over $100, & the real version is approaching $300............

That & The Bruce Cockburn box are at the top of my "I want, but can't afford" list