Release date: 12th October 2018. Item will be despatched on or around release date in cruciform mailer. Orders will be charged upon checkout.

The follow-up to the awarding winning and critically acclaimed DAVID BOWIE ‘FIVE YEARS (1969 – 1973)’ and DAVID BOWIE ‘A NEW CAREER IN A NEW TOWN (1977 – 1982)’ will be released on 12th October.

 

The box contains newly remastered versions of David’s most commercially successful period ‘LET’S DANCE’, ‘TONIGHT’, ‘NEVER LET ME DOWN (ORIGINAL and 2018 VERSIONS)’, the live album ‘GLASS SPIDER (Live Montreal ’87)’, the previously unreleased ‘SERIOUS MOONLIGHT’ live album, a collection of original remixes entitled ‘DANCE’ and the non-album / alternate version / b-sides and soundtrack music compilation RE:CALL 4.

 

The highlight of this latest box is the brand new production of the 1987 album ‘NEVER LET ME DOWN’ by Bowie producer / engineer Mario McNulty with new instrumentation by Bowie collaborators Reeves Gabrels (guitar), David Torn (guitar), Sterling Campbell (drums), Tim Lefebvre (bass) as well as string quartet with arrangements by Nico Muhly and a guest cameo by Laurie Anderson on ‘Shining Star (Makin’ My Love)’.

The seeds of this new reimagining of the albums were first sown in 2008 when David asked Mario McNulty to remix the track ‘Time Will Crawl’ and record new drums by longtime Bowie drummer, Sterling Campbell along with strings. The track was issued on the iSelect compilation to much acclaim, and in the notes, for that record, David remarked ‘Oh, to redo the rest of that album’.

The new re-workings have revealed ‘Never Let Me Down’ as a very strong collection of songs with a dark thematic thread running through them. Fans listening to ‘NEVER LET ME DOWN (2018)’ would be forgiven for thinking that they were listening to a brand new ‘lost’ Bowie record.

 

Also in each box is the never before released ‘SERIOUS MOONLIGHT’ live album recorded in Montreal in 1983. Originally mixed at the time by Bob Clearmountain, the double album captures Bowie on what at that time was his most successful tour. The artwork features shots taken by photographer Denis O’Regan.

Exclusive to each box is ‘RE:CALL 4’ and ‘DANCE’. The former a new compilation featuring remastered contemporary single versions, non-album singles, album edits, b-sides and songs featured on soundtracks such as Labyrinth, Absolute Beginners and When The Wind Blows. ‘DANCE’ features 12 contemporaneous remixes some of which are appearing on CD and vinyl for the first time and is named after an unreleased Bowie remix album that was originally slated for release in November 1985.

 

The box set’s accompanying 84 page book features rarely seen and previously unpublished photos by photographers including Denis O’Regan, Greg Gorman, Herb Ritts and many others as well as historical press reviews and technical notes about the albums from producers/engineers Nile Rodgers, Hugh Padgham, Mario McNulty and Justin Shirley-Smith.

Catalogue# 0190295693527
FORMAT: 88 Page hardback book 

Let's Dance (remastered) (1LP)

Serious Moonlight (Live '83) (previously unreleased) (2LP)*

Tonight (remastered) (1LP)

Never Let Me Down (remastered) (1LP)

Never Let Me Down (2018) (previously unreleased) (2LP - side 4 is etched)*

Glass Spider (Live Montreal '87) (previously unreleased on vinyl) (3LP)*

Dance (2LP)*

Re:Call 4 (non-album singles, edits, single versions, b-sides and soundtrack music) (remastered) (3LP)*

 

* Exclusive to Loving The Alien (1983-1988) LP box

Tracklist:

 LET'S DANCE

 

Side 1

Modern Love                                                                                      

China Girl                                                                                            

Let's Dance                                                                                        

Without You 

                                                                                     

Side 2

Ricochet                                                                                                              

Criminal World                                                                                 

Cat People (Putting Out Fire)                                                     

Shake It

 

SERIOUS MOONLIGHT (LIVE ?83)

 

Side 1

Look Back In Anger

Heroes

What In The World

Golden Years

Fashion

Let's Dance

 

Side 2

Breaking Glass

Life On Mars

Sorrow

Cat People (Putting Out Fire)

China Girl

Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)

Rebel Rebel

 

Side 3

White Light / White Heat

Station To Station

Cracked Actor

Ashes To Ashes

 

Side 4

Space Oddity/Band Introduction

Young Americans

Fame

Modern Love

 

TONIGHT

 

Side 1

Loving The Alien                                                                                              

Don't Look Down                                                                                            

God Only Knows                                                                                             

Tonight 

                                                                                               

Side 2

Neighborhood Threat                                                                   

Blue Jean                                                                                                            

Tumble And Twirl                                                                                            

I Keep Forgettin'                                                                                             

Dancing With The Big Boys  

 

NEVER LET ME DOWN

 

Side 1

Day-In Day-Out                                                                                

Time Will Crawl                                                                                                

Beat Of Your Drum                                                                         

Never Let Me Down

Zeroes     

                                                                                            

Side 2

Glass Spider                                                                                      

Shining Star (Makin' My Love)                                                   

New York's In Love                                                                        

'87 And Cry                                                                                        

Bang                                                                                                   

 

NEVER LET ME DOWN (2018)

 

Side 1

Day-In Day-Out                                                                                

Time Will Crawl                                                                                                

Beat Of Your Drum

                                                                        

Side 2

Never Let Me Down

Zeroes                                                                                                 

Glass Spider 

                                                                                     

Side 3

Shining Star (Makin' My Love) (ft Laurie Anderson)

New York's In Love 

87 & Cry

Bang Bang

 

Side 4

David Bowie 1987 logo etching                                                                       

 

GLASS SPIDER (LIVE MONTREAL ?87)

 

Side 1

Up The Hill Backwards

Glass Spider

Day-In Day-Out

Bang Bang

 

Side 2

Absolute Beginners

Loving The Alien

China Girl

Rebel Rebel

 

Side 3

Fashion

Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)

All The Mad Men

Never Let Me Down

 

Side 4

Big Brother

'87 And Cry

Heroes

Sons Of The Silent Age

Time Will Crawl / Band Introduction

 

Side 5

Young Americans

Beat Of Your Drum

The Jean Genie

Let's Dance

 

Side 6

Fame

Time

Blue Jean

Modern Love

 

DANCE

 

Side 1

Shake It (Re-mix aka Long Version)

Blue Jean (Extended Dance Mix)

Dancing With The Big Boys (Extended Dance Mix)

 

Side 2

Tonight (Vocal Dance Mix)

Don't Look Down (Extended Dance Mix)

Loving The Alien (Extended Dub Mix)

 

Side 3

Tumble And Twirl (Extended Dance Mix)

Underground (Extended Dance Mix)

Day-In Day-Out (Groucho Mix) 

 

Side 4

Time Will Crawl (Dance Crew Mix)

Shining Star (Makin' My Love) (12" mix)

Never Let Me Down (Dub/Acapella)

 

RE:CALL 4

 

Side 1

Let's Dance (single version)

China Girl (single version)

Modern Love (single version)

This Is Not America (The theme from The Falcon And The Snowman) - David Bowie / Pat Metheny Group

Loving The Alien (re-mixed version)

 

Side 2

Don't Look Down (re-mixed version)

Dancing In The Street (Clearmountain mix) - David Bowie and Mick Jagger

Absolute Beginners (from Absolute Beginners)

That's Motivation (from Absolute Beginners)

Volare (from Absolute Beginners)

 

Side 3

Labyrinth Opening Titles/Underground (from Labyrinth)

Magic Dance (from Labyrinth)

As The World Falls Down (from Labyrinth)

Within You (from Labyrinth)

Underground (from Labyrinth)

 

Side 4

When The Wind Blows (single version) (from When The Wind Blows)

Day-In Day-Out (single version)

Julie

Beat Of Your Drum (vinyl album edit)

Glass Spider (vinyl album edit)

 

Side 5

Shining Star (Makin' My Love) (vinyl album edit)

New York's In Love (vinyl album edit)

'87 And Cry (vinyl album edit)

Bang Bang (vinyl album edit)

Time Will Crawl (single version)

 

Side 6

Girls (extended edit)

Never Let Me Down (7" remix edit)

Bang Bang (live - promotional mix)

Tonight (live) Tina Turner with David Bowie

Let's Dance (live) Tina Turner with David Bowie