Unless David Bowie returns to the land of the living (and anything’s possible where he’s concerned), a new box set will be the last in a series of massive compendiums devoted to phases of his career. The series began less than four months before his January 2016 death with Five Years [1969–1973]. Subsequently issued boxes […]
The late music producer Joe Meek has often been called England’s answer to Phil Spector, and the comparison is apt. Both men created their greatest work in the 1960s, and both viewed the recording studio as if it were as important as the singers or their instruments. The final chapters of their lives also included […]
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Music Reviews: David Bowie “Rock ‘n’ Roll Star!” plus Late Slip, Dorsey Burnette, and Bob Wills An Anthology Chronicles the Creation of David Bowie’s ‘Ziggy Stardust’ LP A 2015 box set covering David Bowie’s early years included a remastered copy of his landmark 1972 album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, as well as […]
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Music & Film Reviews: David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: The Motion Picture (50th-Anniversary ed.), plus John Mellencamp and More Anyone who doubted early on that David Bowie was on the road to superstardom probably hadn’t witnessed his July 3, 1973, show at London’s Hammersmith Odeon. It’s notable not just because he […]
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More than 20 years ago, the Rhino label issued a four-CD, 109-track box set of frequently psychedelic late 1960s rock obscurities called Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts from the British Empire and Beyond. You might think that would be enough to cover the territory, but this was an incredibly fertile time and place for the genre. […]
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