David Bowie’s iconic VH1 Storytellers dwell album is lastly being launched on vinyl

There’s an amazing variety of David Bowie information on the market, however there’s one main file that has surprisingly by no means been pressed to vinyl: his dwell session for VH1‘s Storytellers sequence. Now, that’s lastly altering. Bowie’s VH1 Storytellers will likely be launched on vinyl on October 11th by way of Parlophone.

This announcement arrives nearly 20 years to the day after Bowie’s efficiency on the present, which was recorded on August 23rd of 1999. He performed a career-spanning setlist which, on the time, may solely go as much as materials from Hours, his 1999 album that had not but been launched at that time. It’s notably notable for his performances of typically missed songs like “Can’t Assist Considering About Me”, which he hadn’t performed in 33 years, or “Phrase On A Wing”, which he hadn’t rolled out in 23 years.

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Whereas technically VH1 Storytellers acquired a business launch in 2009, it was solely out there as a CD and DVD package deal, the latter on which had 4 bonus songs not out there on the CD. The brand new VH1 Storytellers vinyl will embody all the songs from his dwell session, together with these bonus tracks. It’s a 2xLP launch to accommodate the 12-song tracklist and coinciding commentary.

In response to Invoice Flanagan, the manager producer of VH1 Storytellers, everybody within the studio was shocked when he agreed to play the present simply three years after the TV sequence debuted. “We have been used to coping with legendary musicians. Nonetheless, touchdown David Bowie was greater than an enormous reserving. There’s no strategy to say this with out being corny: it was an honor,” he stated in a press launch. “Bowie has a singular place in rock and roll. He’s not solely probably the most influential musicians of the period, however he does nothing until he’s absolutely dedicated.”

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Talking of TV, count on to see extra David Bowie in your display screen. The Man Who Fell to Earth, the 1976 movie the place Bowie made his large display screen debut, is being was a TV sequence for CBS. In the meantime, the upcoming movie Stardust provided a primary take a look at Johnny Flynn as Bowie. On prime of all of this, perhaps you’ll see Bowie in a business for a Mattel doll, as the corporate dropped a David Bowie-inspired Barbie to rejoice 50th anniversary of “Area Oddity”.

There’s a whole lot of Bowie content material on the best way, it appears, so take your protein capsules and put your helmet to arrange for all of it. Till then, take a look at the album paintings and tracklist for VH1 Storytellers beneath.

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