Staying back in your memory, Are the movies in the past…
One of the things I’ve noticed doing these anniversary release items is just how many of the recorded release dates are inaccurate. I won’t go on about this, (cries of: “Doesn’t normally worry you!”) but obviously we will do our best to correct these errors as we go along, using chart placings, advertisements and archive music press cuttings.
After it’s success as hugely popular bootleg and after ten years of campaigning for its release, fans were finally rewarded with the double vinyl RCA issue of Ziggy Stardust The Motion Picture on October 24th 1983. Above are the UK (left) and US pressings.
Below is the sticker from the limited edition American clear vinyl pressing of the album…
The reason I have highlighted this is because Dave Thompson‘s Moonage Daydream book from 1987 makes mention in the album discography of the following item…
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Ziggy ’83 – RCA QLP2 4862 (Canada) – January 1984
A clear vinyl promotional album taken from the ABC Radio Broadcast of David’s 1983 Montreal show, and identical to the Serious Moonlight video.
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Now, unless this is yet another release that has slipped by undetected for the past twenty five years, (10.06.2008 NEWS: ULTRA RARE BOWIE BARGAINS BAGGED ON EBAY) I think Ziggy ’83 must be an album that has been confused with the above American clear vinyl Ziggy Stardust The Motion Picture.
But, as I’ve said before, you never can tell with these crazy Canadians, so if you know differently and can prove the existence of Ziggy ’83 we would love to hear from you.
In 1991 at least four different Czech pressings of Ziggy Stardust The Motion Picture on coloured vinyl were issued via BMG/Globus International.
However, the most complete and best sounding version on vinyl remains EMI’s 30th Anniversary Edition from 2003 which was released as a limited edition numbered red vinyl and included a poster.