“Where there's trouble there's poetry”
Editor John Robinson has been in touch with an exclusive first look at the latest in Uncut’s Ultimate Record Collection series, the first of their artist-led specials: David Bowie: 1964-1976.
The magazine apparently presents: “every record Bowie made, in order, in the period – with contributions from the people who made them.”.
An example is artist Mike Weller’s explanation of how the original title of the album eventually known as The Man Who Sold The World came about.
Weller: “I said to DB, “These are very troubled songs”, and he said, in a cod Yorkshire accent, “Aye, it’s me troubled-est.” And I said, “And that’s going to be your title.” That was DB – very serious, and also very, very funny. And that, spelled ‘Metrobolist’, was going to be the title.”
Here is the concluding section of John Robinson’s introduction:
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Lifetimes have been dedicated to the many delightful regional sleeve variations in this period of the Bowie catalogue, and we’ve given a flavour of them here, even if we can’t (as we have elsewhere in this magazine as far as possible) hope to track and trace them all.
Perhaps that’s key to the appeal of Bowie that we’re trying to elucidate in this magazine. As much as you can look, listen and read, there always seems to be more to discover. As the godfather of our Bowie
collection, Jens Döpke (of the Bowie-collection.de website), explains in our Miscellany, “There’s no such thing as a ‘complete’ Bowie collection…”
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Never a truer word spoken, Jens.
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