I could do with the money…
A few of you have e-mailed regarding the latest Bowie item to go on
This one is an acetate for the Ziggy Stardust LP, dating from around February 1972, which still has the track Round And Round instead of Starman, which it would eventually be replaced by.
After a frenzied scramble (29 bids) the acetate eventually sold for a recession-ignoring US $4,772.00…unless rare records are the new fine wines for investors of course.
If the buyer is reading this, I would love to know if the later tracks to be recorded, Suffragette City and Rock ?n? Roll Suicide, are different mixes or exactly as the final album versions.
Anyway, the seller’s description of the acetate is wordy if nothing else, but it’s good to see that even a Bowie fan of my standing can still learn something from eBay…Here’s a tiny excerpt and apparently it’s “not some far-fetched theory”.
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Another theory, which makes even more sense, is that Bowie worked concurrently on a number of his future projects and albums and that the tracks recorded during the Ziggy Stardust sessions were split between this release (Ziggy Stardust) and his 1973 album (Pin-ups), with ?Round and ?Round originally planned for Pin-Ups, then for the Ziggy Stardust and then, ultimately, dropped from both.
This is not some far-fetched theory: mind you, we know for sure, that ?Sorrow?, Bowie?s 1973 single, was originally recorded during the Ziggy Stardust sessions and was initially planned for inclusion in the album, but ultimately ended up on his next release (Pin Ups), about a year later.
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Sorrow recorded during the Ziggy sessions eh? You learn something wrong every day.