DAVID BOWIE LP SPACE ODDITY 1972 RCA LSP-4813 EXCELLENT NM

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DAVID BOWIE LP SPACE ODDITY 1972 RCA LSP-4813 Vinyl is Beautiful and looks hardly played Cover has some edge wear. Nice copy with original inner sleeve.

David Bowie (commonly known as Space Oddity) is the second studio album by English musician David Bowie. After the commercial failure of his 1967 self-titled debut album, Bowie acquired a new manager, Kenneth Pitt, who commissioned a promotional film in hopes of widening the artist's audience. For the film, Bowie wrote a new song, titled "Space Oddity", a tale about a fictional astronaut. The song earned Bowie a contract with Mercury Records, who agreed to finance production of a new album, with Pitt hiring Tony Visconti to produce. Due to his dislike of the song, Visconti appointed engineer Gus Dudgeon to produce a re-recording for release as a lead single, while he produced the rest of the album.

Recording for the new album began in June 1969 and continued until early October, at Trident Studios in London. It featured an array of collaborators, including Herbie Flowers, Rick Wakeman, Terry Cox and the band Junior's Eyes. Departing from the music hall style of Bowie's 1967 debut, David Bowie instead features folk rock and psychedelic rock songs. Lyrically, the songs contain themes that were influenced by events happening in Bowie's life at the time, including former relationships and festivals he attended. Released as a single in July 1969, "Space Oddity" peaked at number five in the UK later in the year, earning Bowie his first commercial hit.

David Bowie was released in the UK on 14 November 1969 through Mercury affiliate Philips Records. For the US release, Mercury retitled it Man of Words/Man of Music and used different artwork. Due to a lack of promotion, the album was a commercial failure, despite earning some positive reviews from music critics. Following Bowie's commercial breakthrough with his fifth studio album Ziggy Stardust in 1972, RCA Records reissued the album under the title of Space Oddity, and used a contemporary photo of Bowie as the artwork. The reissue charted in both the UK and the US.

Track listing

All tracks are written by David Bowie.

Side one

1. "Space Oddity" – 5:16
2. "Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed" – 6:55[d]
3. "Letter to Hermione" – 2:33
4. "Cygnet Committee" –9:35

Side two

1. "Janine" – 3:25
2. "An Occasional Dream" – 3:01
3. "Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud" – 4:52
4. "God Knows I'm Good" – 3:21
5. "Memory of a Free Festival" – 7:09