David Bowie JAPAN Rare Lady Stardust 7" + Blackstar 12" with extras - US Seller

$

180

NOTE: Items will not ship until May 1.

David Bowie 

Lady Stardust / Crystal Japan Limited Edition 7" Picture Disc 

and

? Blackstar Limited Edition Red Vinyl 12" Single 

Ships from California! 

New and unplayed (as purchased in Japan at exhibition; 7" is sealed with sticker, 12" is not sealed). I've placed both records in resealable sleeves for additional protection.

Includes extras as pictured: 4-panel exhibition flyer, Sony flyer promoting DB vinyl releases, Movie Plus flyer, and 7" size shop bag (bag may have a few wrinkles from use). 

Media mail shipping is $7 within the US. Priority and international shipping available to some countries - please inquire before purchasing. 

More info: 

Limited edition Japanese picture disc details

“I smiled sadly, for a love I could not obey”

Last week we announced the 7" 45 picture disc produced to coincide with the Japanese opening of DAVID BOWIE is in Tokyo on January 8th, 2017.

The disc will be sold exclusively at the DAVID BOWIE is official shop during the exhibition run from 8 January to 9 April, 2017, and will feature the following two tracks:

A SIDE

LADY STARDUST [4-TRACK DEMO – STEREO]

AA SIDE

CRYSTAL JAPAN

Lady Stardust (David’s ode to Marc Bolan), is the original solo piano and voice, 4-track demo, recorded at the same time as Right On Mother at Radio Luxembourg Studios in London, on 9th March, 1971. The version on this disc was mixed properly and officially to stereo for the first time from the original 4-track tape in July 2016 at AIR Studios in London.

Most people are more familiar with the song in its finished form after it was re-recorded by Bowie and The Spiders and released over a year later on the 1972 Ziggy Stardust album.

Crystal Japan (originally titled Fuji Moto San) is a haunting instrumental track first released as a single in Japan in July 1980. The track was used for a TV advert for the Japanese sake Crystal Jun Rock by Takara Shuzo. The adverts (there were two of them), featured Bowie in a Zen temple in Kyoto, a location he personally selected, being so moved by the beautiful Karesansui Zen Garden.

As previously mentioned, both sides of the picture disc have photographs taken by Japanese photographer, Masayoshi Sukita.

The A side features a shot taken from a session in February 1973, at RCA Studios in New York. Bowie is wearing a costume by Japanese designer, Kansai Yamamoto, and Kabuki inspired make-up. Under Japanese influence, indeed.

The Sukita photograph on the AA side was taken in Tokyo in 1980. 

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DAVID BOWIE is exclusive Japanese ? 12”

“I'm a take you home (I'm a blackstar)”

Alongside the Lady Stardust/Crystal Japan 7" 45 picture disc produced to coincide with the Japanese opening of DAVID BOWIE is in Tokyo on January 8th, 2017, a limited edition, transparent red vinyl 12" single of ? will also be made available exclusively through the DAVID BOWIE is exhibition shop at the same time.

The 12” vinyl single (Catalogue number: SCJ7 1), features the following 3 tracks from the ? album...

A-side

Blackstar (album version)

B-side

Lazarus (radio edit)

I Can’t Give Everything Away (radio edit)

This limited edition red vinyl single (produced in Japan) will be accompanied by an exclusive poster of one of Jimmy King’s beautiful photographs of David (size: 590 mm x 884 mm). It will also include lyrics, translation of lyrics and liner note, and will be the very first physical single to be released from the ? album.

Long-term Bowie designer, Jonathan Barnbrook, had this to say about the design...

“I try to do something that is worthy of David Bowie, one of the greatest artists of the past century. I am always mindful of what his fans would like. For this, because the design is so simple, it needs to be perfect even with the smallest of details. The infinity symbol (?) that appears when you take the record out of its sleeve, was very important. It symbolises the desire of him wanting to live forever in I Can’t Give Everything Away and also that we have his music forever even though he is no longer with us.”