DAVID BOWIE Ziggy Stardust 1972 UK RCA ORIGINAL 1E/2E w/UNSPLIT LYRC INNER
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DAVID BOWIE Ziggy Stardust 1972 UK RCA ORIGINAL 1E/2E w/UNSPLIT LYRC INNER
DAVID BOWIEThe Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
1972 UK RCA (SF 8287/LSP 4702) ORIGINAL PRESSING OF BOWIE'S ICONIC MASTERPIECE
SUPERB COPY WHICH PLAYS LIKE-NEW WITH FANTASTIC SOUND QUALITY
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE RCA SMOOTH, GLOSSY ORANGE LABELS WHICH CARRY THE FIRST "Titanic Music / Chrysalis Music" CREDIT (changed just a few months later to "MainMan / Chrysalis")
MATRIX: BGBS 0864 - 1E B2 AAV / BGBS 0865 - 2E A6 P
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL MATT SLEEVE, "Printed in England by Robert Stace" - NO 'MainMan' LOGO ON THE BACK (which is present on all copies printed after December 1972)
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL LYRIC INNER SLEEVE (again, the first issue with "Titanic Music Limited / Chrysalis Limited" credits)
Borrowing heavily from Marc Bolan's glam rock and the future shock of A Clockwork Orange, David Bowie reached back to the heavy rock of The Man Who Sold the World for The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
Constructed as a loose concept album about an androgynous alien rock star named Ziggy Stardust, the story falls apart quickly, yet Bowie's fractured, paranoid lyrics are evocative of a decadent, decaying future, and the music echoes an apocalyptic, nuclear dread.
Fleshing out the off-kilter metallic mix with fatter guitars, genuine pop songs, string sections, keyboards, and a cinematic flourish, Ziggy Stardust is a glitzy array of riffs, hooks, melodrama, and style and the logical culmination of glam.
Mick Ronson plays with a maverick flair that invigorates rockers like "Suffragette City," "Moonage Daydream," and "Hang Onto Yourself," while "Lady Stardust," "Five Years," and "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" have a grand sense of staged drama previously unheard of in rock & roll. And that self-conscious sense of theatre is part of the reason why Ziggy Stardust sounds so foreign.
Bowie succeeds not in spite of his pretensions but because of them, and Ziggy Stardust -- familiar in structure, but alien in performance -- is the first time his vision and execution met in such a grand, sweeping fashion
Side 1:
Five Years (4:42)
Soul Love (3:34)
Moonage Daydream (4:40)
Starman (4:10)
It Ain't Easy (2:58)
Side 2:
Lady Stardust (3:22)
Star (2:47)
Hang On To Yourself (2:40)
Ziggy Stardust (3:13)
Suffragette City (3:25)
Rock 'N' Roll Suicide (2:58)
LABELS: MINT
Clean, unmarked labels with no evident spindle traces (but spindles do not readily show on these smooth RCA labels)
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked playing surfaces and even under bright light there is barely a wispy hairline to be seen
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Plays perfectly throughout with no audible issues of note.
No clicks, ticks or pops and beautifully clean on the quieter sections i.e. the lead-in to "Five years" and "Rock 'N' Roll Suicide"
SLEEVE: VERY GOOD
Clean and unmarked with a light touch of ring and two tiny nicks on the opening edge
INNER SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Nice, clean example without any splits to the edges
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINERS, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: £5.00 (Recorded Delivery)
UK: £11.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £20.00 (International Signed For delivery)
Combined Post: Additional records £1 (UK) £2 (Europe including Russia) £3 (International)
Guarantee: All records are unconditionally guaranteed (including sealed and/or unplayed) and I will offer a complete, no quibble refund upon return of the item should you not be pleased with it in any way I will email you when payment has been received to let you know when the item will be posted. Please leave feedback upon receipt of the item so that I know you have received it safely. Thanks 856 (GS 7.0.20 (856))
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