DAVID BOWIE, The Man Who Sold the World [Mercury cowboy sleeve] USA LP

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David Bowie ?– The Man Who Sold The World Label: Mercury (2) ?– SR-61325 Format: Vinyl, LP, Repress, Unofficial Release  Country: US Released: 1975 Genre: Rock Style: Hard Rock, Glam Tracklist A1 The Width Of A Circle 8:07 A2 All The Madmen 5:38 A3 Black Country Rock 3:33 A4 After All 3:52 B1 Running Gun Blues 3:12 B2 Saviour Machine 4:27 B3 She Shook Me Cold 4:13 B4 The Man Who Sold The World 3:58 B5 The Supermen 3:39 Companies, etc. Published By – P.R.S. Recorded At – Trident Studios Recorded At – Advision Studios Remixed At – Trident Studios Credits Drums – Mick Woodmansey Electric Bass, Producer, Piano, Guitar – Tony Visconti Engineer – Ken* Executive-Producer – Robin McBride Guitar – Mick Ronson Synthesizer [Moog] – Ralph Mace Vocals, Guitar, Written-By – David Bowie Notes Counterfeit / bootleg pressing of the US pressing of the album with Cowboy/ cartoon sleeve.  Not dated but it is fair to speculate pressed sometime post-1972 when Bowie was becoming more well known.  The country is also unknown but judging by the sleeve construction probably USA. There are said to be many more bootlegs of this album than real copies as it sold very few on release.  The bootleg is a very faithful reproduction of the original and appears almost exactly identical except for two prominent differences:  1- the matrix # is hand-scratched, NOT machine stamped  2- about 2 seconds of music is missing from All The Madmen, there is a jump cut which misses out the words 'all the same as' from the line 'For I'm quite content they're all the same as me' from the end of the second chorus. Someone who had not heard the album before would probably not notice this edit. This is not a skip it is quite smoothly done and sounds like a tape edit. It suggests there was some imperfection with the source material which was deliberately edited out. Therefore this also suggests the audio is taken from an archival copy of the vinyl and dubbed to tape, rather than a master tape transfer.  Apart from this omission the music is of a professional sounding quality and artwork appears identical.  'All Selections published by PRS. Ltd (ASCAP)  Recorded at Trident Studios and Advision Studios, London, England  Remixed at Trident Studios, London, England  Many thanks to our engineer, Ken.' Barcode and Other Identifiers Matrix / Runout (Side A etched): SR - 61325 - A - M2 Matrix / Runout (Side B etched): SR - 61325 - B - m1 Rights Society: ASCAP  

USA VINYL ALBUM IN COWBOY SLEEVE WITH ORIGINAL WHITE INNER SLEEVE.

PLEASE READ ITEM DETAILS IN FULL ABOVE PRIOR TO PURCHASE, THIS IS NOT THE MACHINE STAMPED MATRIX PRESSING.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD, SOME SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR.  CREASING, SPINE SCUFFS AND CORNER DRILL HOLE.  INNER SLEEVE IS WORN.

DISC[S]: VERY GOOD. THERE ARE A FEW LIGHT SCRATCHES, PLAY SCUFFS AND FINGERPRINTS.  A DECENT, BUT NOT PERFECT COPY. CLEAN LABELS.

 
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