PRESS RELEASE: DAVID BOWIE – ZEROES (2018) (RADIO EDIT) – BEAT OF YOUR DRUM (2018) (RADIO EDIT)
DOUBLE A SIDE LIMITED EDITION 7″ PICTURE DISC – RELEASED 7th SEPTEMBER
ZEROES (2018) (RADIO EDIT) DIGITAL 1 TRACK SINGLE AVAILABLE NOW
7th September, 2018, sees the release of the limited edition DAVID BOWIE 7″ picture disc, a double A-side of the radio edits of the 2018 versions of ZEROES and BEAT OF YOUR DRUM. Both tracks are from NEVER LET ME DOWN (2018), a new version of the 1987 album featured in the forthcoming boxset LOVING THE ALIEN (1983-1988) which is released on 12th October. BEAT OF YOUR DRUM (2018) (RADIO EDIT) will also be released as a 1-track digital single. ZEROES is released as a digital single today, 19th July.
NEVER LET ME DOWN (2018), is a new production of Bowie’s final ‘solo’ album of the ‘80s. Producer Mario McNulty worked on the tracks at Electric Lady Studios in New York with longtime Bowie musicians Sterling Campbell (Black Tie White Noise, Outside, ‘hours…’, Heathen, Reality and The Next Day) on drums, Reeves Gabrels (Tin Machine, Black Tie White Noise, Outside, Earthling and ‘hours…’) & David Torn (Heathen, Reality and The Next Day) on guitars and Tim Lefebvre (Blackstar) on bass.
ZEROES, the lyrics of which reference Prince’s Little Red Corvette was Bowie’s salute to the ‘60s. He described it as “The ultimate happy-go-lucky rock tune, based in the nonsensical period of psychedelia”. Mario McNulty commented, “Stripping this song down to its core revealed a track that could have been right at home on Hunky Dory, I kept Peter Frampton’s sitar (which was originally owned by Jimi Hendrix) as it still fits against the new guitars from Reeves Gabrels”.
Of BEAT OF YOUR DRUM Mario McNulty says, “David Torn’s ambient guitars start the song that now lead into a much darker world than its shiny predecessor. David sang all the backing vocals on this which I have kept.”
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DAVID BOWIE – ZEROES (2018) (RADIO EDIT) and BEAT OF YOUR DRUM (2018) (RADIO EDIT) LIMITED EDITION 7″ PICTURE DISC.
A-Side ZEROES (2018) (RADIO EDIT) (David Bowie)
Produced by David Bowie, David Richards and Mario J McNulty
Mixed and Recorded by Mario J McNulty
AA-Side BEAT OF YOUR DRUM (2018) (RADIO EDIT) (David Bowie)
Produced by David Bowie, David Richards and Mario J McNulty
Mixed and Recorded by Mario J McNulty
The images on both sides of the picture disc are by Greg Gorman and are outtakes from the Never Let Me Down album photo session. Alternate versions of these are used on the cover of NEVER LET ME DOWN (2018).
The picture disc of ZEROES (2018) (RADIO EDIT) & BEAT OF YOUR DRUM (2018) (RADIO EDIT) is released on Parlophone on 7th September, 2018
The forthcoming boxset LOVING THE ALIEN (1983-1988) which is released on 12th October
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