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David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (1972)
Cover Front Album
Artist/Composer David Bowie
Format CD
Genre Psychedelic Rock; Classic Rock
Label Virgin
Index 245
Collection Status In Collection
Packaging Jewel Case
Track List
01 Five Years
02 Soul Love
03 Moonage Daydream
04 Starman
05 It Ain't Easy
06 Lady Stardust
07 Star
08 Hang On To Yourself
09 Ziggy Stardust
10 Suffragette City
11 Rock 'N' Roll Suicide
Personal Details
Links Amazon US
Details
Spars DDD
Rare No
Sound Stereo
UPC (Barcode) 724352190003
Notes
24 Bit Digitally Remastered by Peter Mew with Nigel Reeve at Abbey Road Studios, London, 1999. It's beautifully packaged, designed as a hardcover book, filled with full-color photos (many by Mick Rock, whose limited-edition book with Bowie, Moonage Daydream: The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust, is sold with an insert), nice liner notes and two individual sleeves for each disc in the collection. It's beautifully remastered, sounding perhaps even better than the Virgin reissue of 2000, while all the bonus material on the second disc sounds the best it ever has been (since it has still only been available on CD as bonus tracks on the Rykodisc editions). It's beautiful music, whether it's the seminal proper album, or the assortment of demos, early versions, B-sides and outtakes on the B-sides, nearly all as good as what was on the album. In other words, the 30th Anniversary Edition of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars is a lovely collectors piece, soemthing that will surely please the legions of dedicated fans of Bowie and Ziggy that will easily pay for a lavish reissue like those. Those on a tighter budget, however, shouldn't despair, since even though this is an excellent reissue, all the essential music was already available on the initial Ryko edition of Ziggy, or other reissues they released and if that's already part of your collection, you'll be as satisfied with that as you would be with this.