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|June 2023
A half-speed master holds off time as it waits in the wings.
Aladdin Sane: oof, you want to get some after-sun on that, Dave
David Bowie
Aladdin Sane: 50th Anniversary Half-Speed Master
Parlophone 5054197183140 (DBAS 50) (LP)
Covid has done something interesting to the David Bowie reissues schedule: delaying the 50thanniversary box sets by a year (The Width Of A Circle, a live and rarities counterpart to The Man Who Sold The World [1970], appeared in 2021; Divine Symmetry mapped out the road to Hunky Dory [1971] in 2022. We hope for a The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars companion collection this year). We now have the opportunity to deep-dive one aspect of Bowie’s past while also immersing ourselves in what was coming around the corner, via the latest attempt at the holy grail: the perfect vinyl pressing.
Where the half-speed masters are concerned, it’s all about the cut (this 50th-anniversary reissue of
This story is from the June 2023 edition of Record Collector.
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