“Moi, Je serai un roi, Et toi, Tu seras ma reine”
The headline hints at the story below. Two new vinyl Bowie collectables for those lucky, lucky French types.
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DAVID BOWIE “HEROES” LIMITED EDITION BLUE VINYL 7″ / “iSELECT” LIMITED EDITION RED VINYL LP
To commemorate the opening of the ‘David Bowie Is’ exhibition at the Philharmonie de Paris, Tuesday March 3rd 2015 sees the release of two very special limited pieces of DAVID BOWIE vinyl.
The first is a blue vinyl 7″, the French language version of “Heroes”. The single will be limited to 2000 copies and will only be available in France from the exhibition shop and selected FNAC stores. However, fans may want to stay tuned to davidbowie.com for the chance to win copies of this instant Bowie collectable.
“Heroes” was originally released in France in September 1977 and was backed by the “Heroes” album track ‘V-2 Schneider’. The 2015 edition has the AA-side of “Heroes” (Live) which was recorded on the Serious Moonlight Tour at the Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada on the 12th of September 1983 and it makes its audio debut here.
Also as part of the opening of ‘David Bowie Is’, the compilation ‘iSELECT’ is getting its debut vinyl release as a very limited red pressing. Originally released on CD in 2008 few of the selections are well known to the general record buying public but are songs which Bowie says he ‘never seems to tire of’. The sleevenotes feature a track by track annotation written by Bowie himself. All of the versions of the tracks on ‘iSELECT’ other than ‘Life On Mars?’ are currently unavailable on vinyl.
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DAVID BOWIE IS – PHILHARMONIE DE PARIS – 3rd MARCH – 31st MAY 2015
‘David Bowie Is’ was originally presented in 2013 at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and is now touring internationally, the exhibition has been met with resounding critical success around the globe as well as breaking attendance records in the UK and the US. ‘David Bowie Is’ will be presented in a slightly modified form in Paris for the opening of the Philharmonie de Paris Exhibition space at the Philharmonie de Paris from 3rd March to 31st May 2015. Ticket details and more information is available here: http://smarturl.it/DBisInParis
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DAVID BOWIE – “HEROES” LIMITED EDITION 7″ BLUE VINYL
A-Side “Héros” (French single version)
(David Bowie/Brian Eno)
Produced by David Bowie and Tony Visconti
Recorded at Hansa By The Wall, Berlin
AA-Side “Heroes” (Live)
(David Bowie/Brian Eno)
Recorded live at Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, September 12 1983
The “Heroes” sleeve (pictured) is an updated version of the original French 7″ single release.
French language version of “Heroes” YouTube link: http://youtu.be/zcFIj56KL6g
French language version of “Heroes” Spotify link: http://smarturl.it/FrenchHEROES
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DAVID BOWIE – “iSELECT” LIMITED EDITION RED VINYL ALBUM
Life On Mars? (taken from the album Hunky Dory)
Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (taken from the album Diamond Dogs)
The Bewlay Brothers (taken from the album Hunky Dory)
Lady Grinning Soul (taken from the album Aladdin Sane)
Win (taken from the album Young Americans)
Some Are (currently exclusive to this compilation)
Teenage Wildlife (taken from the album Scary Monsters)
Repetition (taken from the album Lodger)
Fantastic Voyage (taken from the album Lodger)
Loving The Alien (taken from the album Tonight)
Time Will Crawl (MM Remix) (new remix by David Bowie)
Hang On To Yourself (live) (taken from the album Live Santa Monica ’72)
Scroll images to view the the “iSELECT” sleeve.
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We’ll leave you with David’s sleeve notes for Time Will Crawl (MM Remix) and his explanation of the song’s harrowing inspiration.
Time Will Crawl (MM Remix)
Produced by David Bowie.
Recorded & mixed by Mario J McNulty.
String arrangements by Gregor Kitziz.
String Quartet: Martha Mooke/Krista Bennion Feeney/Robert
Chausow/Matthew Goeke.
Drums: Sterling Campbell.
“There are a host of songs that I’ve recorded over the years that for one reason or another (clenched teeth) I’ve often wanted to re-record some time in the future. This track from ‘Never Let Me Down’ is one of those. I’ve replaced the drum machine with true drums and added some crickety strings and remixed. I’m very fond of this new version with its Neil Young of Shortlands accents. Oh, to redo the rest of that album.
One Saturday afternoon in April 1986, along with some other musicians I was taking a break from recording at Montreux studios in Switzerland. It was a beautiful day and we were outside on a small piece of lawn facing the Alps and the lake. Our engineer, who had been listening to the radio, shot out of the studio door and shouted, “There’s a whole lot of shit going on in Russia.” The Swiss news had picked up a Norwegian radio station that was screaming for anyone who would listen that huge billowing clouds were moving over from the Motherland and they weren’t rain clouds. This was the first news in Europe of the satanic Chernobyl.
I phoned a writer friend of mine in London but he hadn’t heard anything about it. It wasn’t for many more hours that the story started trickling out as major news. For those first few moments it felt sort of claustrophobic to know that you are one of only a few witnesses to something of this magnitude. Over the next couple of months a complicated crucible of impressions collected in my head prompted by this insanity any one of which could have become a song. I stuck them all in ‘Time Will Crawl’. That last sentence rhymes.” – David Bowie 2008
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French language version of “Heroes”