David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World

[markowitz]

Great album. Width of a Circle really does it for me and I highly recommend the live version on Live at the Santa Monica Civic Boot. That has great versions of a lot of his hard rocking early days. Mick Ronson is on fire on that album, espcecially Width of a Circle.

[markowitz]

best version IMO

[Calabasas_Trafalgar]

Am I correct to say that the album belongs to a glam era of Bowie's music?

No, this is pre-glam. Great heavy rock all the way, and I think his best.

[Ken]

Dave Cousins locates this 1971 interview with David Bowie.

David Bowie's first US tour was a disaster because he forgot to get a work visa and couldn't play gigs.
-The pioneering musician went to U.S. to plug The Man Who Sold The World
-But he was told he had wrong visa and could not play concerts
-Bowie was forced to promote album with secret small-scale gigs
-The glam rock star wasn't even allowed to perform songs on radio

The 'lost' recording came to light for the first time in more than 40 years after Strawbs frontman Dave Cousins discovered the radio interview he did with Bowie in the back of a drawer. Cousins interviewed the young Bowie in March 1971 during a five-year spell as a producer for the Danish broadcaster, Danmarks Radio.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...play-gigs.html

[Nijinsky Hind]

An incredibly evil and dark album... i have always liked it a lot.

[grego]

Good album, in my top 5 of his albums.

[Rufus]

Woodmansey & Visconti recently revisted & played this album at a gig in London. Hope they release it ????

[Calabasas_Trafalgar]

One of my all-time favorite albums and Bowie's best IMO. Many fans may look at the credits and see one unfamiliar name: Ralph Mace on Moog synthesizer. Many believed this was a pseudonym for Rick Wakeman, as he has appeared on Bowie's previous album. However, a friend of mine interviewed Bowie in the 70's and asked him about this. Ralph Mace was a university professor of music, and also a producer of classical and mainstream acts who has produced artists such as James Galway, Henry Mancini, Cleo Laine, and the Chieftains. When asked why they used him, Bowies response was "he was the only one we could find wot knew how to play a synthesizer!"(this was 1971)