Such is the stuff, from where dreams are woven…
The February 2011 edition of Record Collector (
The ten-page article, written by Thomas Jerome Seabrook, is entitled White Shirt Black Noise and it’s a detailed look back at the recording history of the recording of Station To Station and the attendant world tour.
The whole thing is punctuated with lots of cool, if already familiar, period pictures, though I’ve not read the actual content yet so I’ve no idea how accurate any of it is.
However, I can tell you the feature also has a price guide for Station To Station-related releases, with the 7″ section being overseen by lanky BowieNetter, Chas “Anybody got a spare US Rebel Rebel with NY Remix label?” Pearson, creator of the excellent, if not slightly mental,
It seems the album section has been slightly neglected though, with no mention at all of the withdrawn Station To Station US colour proof.
The withdrawn UK colour proof is listed at the same old £500 that the magazine has had it priced at for years, even though I think it’s even scarcer than the RCA Diamond Dogs ‘Cock’ sleeve.
If a mint condition untrimmed UK colour Station To Station sleeve was to turn up on eBay, surely it would fetch at least four to five times that amount by my reckoning.
Thanks to BowieNetter Paul Woods for content confirmation of this issue.