“Oh, look out you rock ‘n rollers“
Congratulations are due to David Bowie with the news that both his RSD single releases have entered the Top Five in the latest UK Official Vinyl Singles Chart.
Changes has gone straight in at #1, while Kingdome come has also entered the chart at #4.
This news is hot on the heels of last week’s announcement that Life On Mars? has been recognised as the best-selling vinyl single of the decade so far by The Official Charts Company (OCC) in the UK.
Despite being a BBC Radio1 Single Of The Week, Changes didn’t enter the UK singles chart at all on its original release in January 1972, so thanks to all of you for reversing that situation 43 years later.
This may be a good time to point out that on April 1st 2014, we posted an April Fools’ Day hoax about a late addition for RSD 2014. One year later that hoax has become a very successful reality.
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Read more about both releases via the links below.
Changes / Eight Line Poem (GEM promo version)
Kingdom Come by David Bowie (1980) / Kingdom Come by Tom Verlaine (1979)