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Artist:  David Bowie

Title:  The Man Who $old the World

Date:  1970

Label:  Mercury Records

Cover Art:  MJ Weller

 

Notes:  Here's an old Bowie album with an alternate cover.  The usual cover has a black & white picture of Bowie on the front, not sure about the back.  A great album full of nice guitar work and dark, clever lyrics.  I'm sure there's been a little more interest in this record since the title tune was covered by Nirvana, but it can stand on its' own among other classics by David.  There aren't any notes as to cover artist credits.

 

Line Up

David Bowie: guitar / vocals
Tony Visconti: electric bass / piano / guitar
Mick Ronson: guitar
Mick Woodmansey: drums
Ralph Mace: moog synthesizer

Track Listing

Side 1

The Width of a Circle
All the Madmen
Black Country Rock
After All

Side 2

Running Gun Blues
Saviour Machine
She Shook Me Cold
The Man Who Sold the World
The Supermen 

If anyone has any additional information pertaining to  the album or players you can send an E-mail to Tralfaz.  Thanks.

Here's some additional info sent in by Tom M:

The UK cover of the first release of The Man Who Sold
the World, on which Bowie is seen reclining in what he
called a "man's dress",[4] was an early indication of
his interest in exploiting his androgynous appearance.
The original US issue employed a cartoon-like cover
drawn by Bowie's friend Michael J. Weller, featuring
the Cane Hill mental asylum,[7] while the 1971 German
release presented a winged hybrid creature with
Bowie's head and a hand for a body, preparing to flick
the Earth away. The 1972 reissue by RCA used a
black-and-white picture of Ziggy Stardust on the
sleeve. The 1990 Rykodisc reissue reinstated the
original UK "dress" cover, which also appeared on the
1999 EMI remaster.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_man_who_sold_the_world
 

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Back Cover

Back Cover

 

 

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