50 years ago today: David Bowie’s Space Oddity peaks at number five

Released on Friday 11 July 1969, Space Oddity hit number 48 on the UK charts (September 6) and dropped out again. Two weeks later on Saturday 20 September it re-entered at 39. The following week…

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David Bowie Conversation Piece 5CD box due November

PRESS RELEASE Parlophone Records is proud to announce DAVID BOWIE CONVERSATION PIECE, a five CD box set and digital equivalent tracking David’s early development throughout 1968 and 1969, via his home demos, BBC radio sessions,…

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Spider From Mars John Hutchison on the 50th-anniversary edition of Space Oddity…

… and The Mercury Demos An excellent feature in the Scottish newspaper ‘The Herald’… On July 3, 1973, an exhausted David Bowie informed auxiliary Spider From Mars John ‘Hutch’ Hutchison to wait for his signal before…

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David Bowie’s ‘The Mercury Demos’ LP Box Due in June

PRESS RELEASE: DAVID BOWIE (WITH JOHN ‘HUTCH’ HUTCHINSON) THE ‘MERCURY’ DEMOS 1 LP BOX SET FEATURING PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED DAVID BOWIE RECORDINGS RELEASED ON PARLOPHONE 28th JUNE 2019 As part of the ongoing celebrations marking 50 years…

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Record Store Day 2019: David Bowie – The World of David Bowie

Decca launched its much-loved World Of Series in 1968. The first album set out the series’ stall perfectly, looking at one of the label’ s biggest selling artists – yet hardly one that chimed with…

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