David Bowie ?– The Man Who Sold The World SR-61325 Vinyl Record Album RARE
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Description
Picked up from a Record Shop in Camden in the late 80's. This has been sat in my collection for over 30 years now. Un official release of the original US Mercury edition of the album, see David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World.
This version has simple etched matrices, with the text base oriented toward the grooves (see images). Artwork is identical. Not dated but it is fair to speculate pressed sometime post-1972 when Bowie was becoming more well known. The country is also unknown but judging by the sleeve construction probably USA. There are said to be many more boot'legs of this album than real copies as it sold very few on release.
The record is a very faithful reproduction of the original and appears almost exactly identical except for three prominent differences: 1- the matrix # is hand-scratched, NOT machine stamped 2- about 2 seconds of music is missing from All The Madmen, there is a jump cut which misses out the words 'all the same as' from the line 'For I'm quite content they're all the same as me' from the end of the second chorus. Someone who had not heard the album before would probably not notice this edit. This is not a skip it is quite smoothly done and sounds like a tape edit. Apart from this omission the music is of a professional sounding quality. 3 - The rear cover speech bubble "Oh by jingo" on an authentic Mercury cover is positioned very close under the lyrics above it (below the lyric "So softly a supergod cries (second times dies)"). On unofficial releases, the speech bubble is almost three line spaces below.
Tracklist A1 The Width Of A Circle 8:07 A2 All The Madmen 5:38 A3 Black Country Rock 3:33 A4 After All 3:52 B1 Running Gun Blues 3:12 B2 Saviour Machine 4:27 B3 She Shook Me Cold 4:13 B4 The Man Who Sold The World 3:58 B5 The Supermen 3:39
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