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DAVID BOWIE - PIN UPS 50th ANNIVERSARY HALF SPEED MASTERED LP
SPECIAL VINYL RELEASE TO CELEBRATE THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF PIN UPS TO BE RELEASED 20th OCTOBER 2023 - Pre-order here
October 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of David Bowie’s classic collection of cover songs, the #1 album Pin Ups, originally released 19th October 1973.
Recorded at Château d’Hérouville in France, a studio to which Bowie would later return to record Low, Pin Ups was a collection of cover songs paying tribute to bands and artists that had inspired Bowie and that he had seen at various clubs in London in the mid to late 60s. Artists he covered for the album included The Yardbirds, The Kinks, Pink Floyd, The Who, The Pretty Things, The Easybeats and more.
Just one single was issued from the album in the UK, a version of The McCoys’ song Sorrow, which later enjoyed wider recognition via The Mersey’s version which peaked at #4 in the UK.
The Bowie version reached #3 in the UK and the single also gave him his first #1 anywhere in the world when it hit the top spot in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
On 20th October 2023, one day after its Golden Jubilee, Pin Ups will be issued as a limited edition 50th anniversary half-speed mastered LP. This new pressing was cut on a customised late Neumann VMS80 lathe with fully recapped electronics from 192kHz restored masters of the original master tapes, with no additional processing on transfer. John Webber cut the half-speed at AIR Studios.
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