MINT 1973 ORIG PROMO + CUSTOM INNER DAVID BOWIE Aladdin Sane GLAM PSYCH

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                                          MINT 1973 FIRST PRESS

         INCLUDES CUSTOM LYRICS INNER SLEEVE

 + Bowie Photo & Signed FAN CLUB APPLICATION FOLD OUT INSERT

                            ..

                

                    David Bowie

                              &

         The Spiders From Mars

                      "Aladdin Sane"

                                         

          UK -(orange) RCA - LSP 4852

Final Collection Copy

RARE ... ADVANCED RELEASE PROMOTIONAL COPY

INCLUDES: BOWIE Photo "Signed" FAN CLUB APPLICATION FOLD-OUT INSERT

This is the highly scarce and in demand Original 1973 first pressing in gatefold cover with custom double sided lyrics inner sleeve...

The follow-up album to DAVID BOWIE's breakthrough The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, it was the first album Bowie wrote and released as a bona fide pop star. Many fans & critics agree that Aladdin Sane contains some of his best material including Bowie encyclopedist Nicholas Pegg describing it as "one of the most urgent, compelling and essential" Lp's of Bowie's career.

The name of the album is a pun on "A Lad Insane". An early variation was "Love Aladdin Vein", which Bowie dropped partly because of its drug connotations.

Aladdin Sane featured a tougher rock sound than its predecessor, particularly on tracks like "Panic in Detroit" (built around a Bo Diddley beat) and Bowie’s breakneck version of the Stones' "Let's Spend the Night Together".

Stepping out of the Ziggy Stardust shadow (Bowie would announce his temporary retirement from the stage later that year), ALADDIN SANE was the aftermath of Ziggy's visit, a brutal memoir of the drugs, sex and glamour that a young starlet could find at the time. "Forget that I'm 50/'Cause you just got paid," Bowie croons, adopting the persona of a "Cracked Actor," and one wonders how far stardom had pushed Bowie. Was he indeed a lad insane?

The macho guitar rave-ups are the product of brilliant spewing by Mick Ronson's searing guitar --beautiful trash, made of Stonesy grind and dangerous Kinks-like riffing. Bowie is at an evocative peak, his vocals at once voyeuristic and enticing. His cover of "Let's Spend The Night Together" sends an unwashed shiver up the back, and his youthful exuberance on "Panic In Detroit" is charmingly believable.
An amazing record with hard rock leads, dreamy piano and some great lyrical performances. You at least HEAR it if anything

• Side One:
• " Watch That Man " New York – 4:25
• " Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?) " RHMS Ellinis – 5:06
• " Drive-In Saturday " Seattle–Phoenix – 4:29
• " Panic in Detroit " Detroit – 4:25
• " Cracked Actor " Los Angeles – 2:56
• Side Two:
• " Time " New Orleans – 5:09
• " The Prettiest Star " Gloucester Road – 3:26
• " Let's Spend the Night Together " ( – 3:03
• " The Jean Genie " Detroit and New York – 4:02
• " Lady Grinning Soul " London – 3:46

CONDITION: The cover: rated: M- TOP COPY ... a lavish gatefold cover is snow white clean; really hard to find clean with no soil on the white cover....PROMOTIONAL stamp on back cover (see photo #2) this copy is very sharp and stiff, having no split seams, no bends, no writing...a collection worthy copy from 42 years ago

The vinyl: rated: M- TOP COPY Clean and glossy with very enjoyable CLEAN audio ...NO distracting surface problems ... both orange RCA labels are clean ... The custom double sided inner sleeve is clean

              

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

 

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