It also means we get to hear our favourites on glorious new 180g, for real audiophiles, and real fans. This song is just wow really, lovely piano work, lovely lyrics, lovely chorus, everything is just fantastic. In 2013, NME ranked the album third in their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, behind the Beatles' Revolver and the Smiths' The Queen Is Dead. The stereo recordings info is printed top left and there is a new catalogue number top right in small, bold type where RCA used to be.

All image and audio content is used by permission of the copyright holders or their agents, and/or according to fair dealing as per the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Many biographers and reviewers have agreed that Hunky Dory marked the beginning of Bowie's artistic success. Already owning Hunky Dory on vinyl and knowing that picture discs do not provide the best sound quality this picture disc was purchased for display as a collectors item and particularly for the poster.After recording its demo at Radio Luxembourg, Bowie gave the tape to Grace, who showed it to Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits. With Wakeman in the line-up, on 9 July Bowie and his band recorded two takes of "Bombers" and "It Ain't Easy", the latter featuring backing vocals by Dana Gillespie. James Perone similarly describes the album as "a unique blend of folk, pop, glam, and progressive rock" that distinguished Bowie from other musicians at the time.

Hunky Dory' is the fourth studio album by David Bowie, originally released on 17 December 1971 by RCA Records.However, Pegg disagrees, writing that there's no evidence to support this claim and Farthingale herself has rejected this theory.

The album closer, "The Bewlay Brothers", was a late addition and the only track that was not demoed. To summarize, it's a nice collectible souvenir, but for practical high quality playback, I'll stick to the CD. The song "Andy Warhol" is a tribute to American artist, producer, and director Andy Warhol, [19] who had inspired Bowie since the mid-1960s and was described by him as "one of the leaders" of "the media of the streets, street messages". Although Bowie was fixated on becoming Ziggy Stardust at the time of its recording, the song has no connection to Mars itself; the title was a reference to the recent media frenzy of the US and Soviet Union racing to get to the red planet.following the 1972 release of Bowie’s breakthrough album THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS. It tells an important part of Bowie's musical career, with his music increasingly on the end of rock, and glam. In the edit page, go to the 'Metadata' tab and add your Juno artist, label or release page for listeners to purchase your release / releases. Ronson initially suggested Rick Kemp, with whom Bowie had recorded in the mid-1960s, but Bowie was unimpressed with Kemp's audition at Haddon Hall. You Pretty Things", "Eight Line Poem", "Kooks", "Queen Bitch" and "Andy Warhol" had been recorded; the mixes of "Eight Line Poem" and "Kooks" on the promotional album differed from the final versions on Hunky Dory.

The whole album sounds fresher, cleaner and more defined and is considerable better at meaningful volume than my original. The same year, Consequence of Sound ranked the album number 18 on their list of the 100 greatest albums of all time.The original UK cover featured Bowie's name and the album title; in the US the title was instead printed on a sticker and placed onto the translucent wrapping. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. On the all-analog EMI pressing, vocals and some finer upper-register details are a bit clearer in places, but dense passages on tracks such as “Life on Mars” sound murky and muddled when compared to the U.