DAVID BOWIE MAN OF WORDS/MAN OF MUSIC V RARE ORIG GATEFOLD LP NM VINYL
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DAVID BOWIE~MAN OF WORDS/MAN OF MUSIC~V RARE ORIG GATEFOLD LP~NM VINYL~TOP COPY!
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DAVID BOWIE "MAN OF WORDS / MAN OF MUSIC" MERCURY SR 61246 INCREDIBLY RARE ORIGINAL LP FROM 1969 GREAT SHAPE!! THIS IS THE FIRST PRESSING WHICH WAS ONLY AVAILABLE FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME BEFORE BEING DELETED AND THEN, EVENTUALLY, BEING REISSUED WITH A NEW COVER AND A NEW TITLE, SPACE ODDITY. GATEFOLD COVER IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH LIGHT DAMAGE TO THE EDGES AND THE CORNERS. THERE IS A 1" SPLIT AT THE TOP OF THE SPINE. (YELLOW LINES IN THE PHOTO ARE ARTEFACTS OF THE SCAN AND ARE NOT PART OF THE ACTUAL COVER.) VINYL IS IN ASTOUNDING NEAR MINT CONDITION!! THIS IS ONE OF THE VERY FEW COPIES THAT WE'VE ENCOUNTERED OVER THE YEARS AND BY FAR THE BEST CONDITION WE'VE EVER SEEN!! When Man of Words/Man of Music first appeared in late 1969, David Bowie was riding high. His first ever hit single, the super-topical "Space Oddity," had scored on the back of the moon landing that summer, and so distinctive an air did it possess that, for a moment, its maker really did seem capable of soaring as high as Major Tom. Sadly, it was not to be. "Space Oddity" aside, Bowie possessed very little in the way of commercial songs, and the ensuing album (his second) emerged a dense, even rambling, excursion through the folky strains that were the last glimmering of British psychedelia. Indeed, the album's most crucial cut, the lengthy "Cygnet Committee," was nothing less than a discourse on the death of hippiness, shot through with such bitterness and bile that it remains one of Bowie's all-time most important numbers -- not to mention his most prescient. The verse that unknowingly name-checks both the Sex Pistols ("the guns of love") and the Damned is nothing if not a distillation of all that brought punk to its knees a full nine years later. The remainder of the album struggles to match the sheer vivacity of "Cygnet Committee," although "Unwashed and Slightly Dazed" comes close to packing a disheveled rock punch, all the more so as it bleeds into a half minute or so of Bowie wailing "Don't Sit Down" -- an element that, mystifyingly, was hacked from the 1972 reissue of the album. "Janine" and "An Occasional Dream" are pure '60s balladry, and "God Knows I'm Good" takes a well-meant but somewhat clumsy stab at social comment. Two final tracks, however, can be said to pinpoint elements of Bowie's own future. The folk epic "Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud" (substantially reworked from the B-side of the hit) would remain in Bowie's live set until as late as 1973, while a re-recorded version of the mantric "Memory of a Free Festival" would become a single the following year, and marked Bowie's first studio collaboration with guitarist Mick Ronson. Man of Words/Man of Music itself, however, would prove another dead end in a career that was gradually piling up an awful lot of such things.The image included with the auction is a scan of the actual item but, due to size limitations of the scanner, the edges of the item may have been cropped.
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