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In 1989, not all major artists had their catalog available on CD, and one of the most notable absences was David Bowie. When the format was in its infancy, RCA had issued several of his classics, but those pressings were notoriously awful and were pulled from the market in 1985 when Bowie acquired the rights to the recordings. Sharp businessman that he is, he took the catalog to market, and after an intense bidding war, he chose to reissue his classic work through Rykodisc, an independent CD-only label that had earned acclaim for its work with Frank Zappa's catalog. Instead of dumping all the discs on the market at once, the titles were slowly rolled out, beginning with a series-encompassing Sound + Vision, a three-CD/one-CD-ROM box set released to great fanfare in the fall of 1989. At the time, box sets were all the rage, following the template of Bob Dylan's Biograph -- an exhaustive career overview that offered all the basics, peppered with some revealing rarities. Upon its release, Sound + Vision was reviewed as if it belonged to this tradition, when it really inverted the formula, offering a series, not career, overview by showcasing alternate versions and rarities, along with album tracks, with a few familiar hits tossed in here and there to provide context. This was a tantalizing way to begin a reissue campaign, and it did receive gushing reviews -- the CD-era publication Rock & Roll Disc breathlessly claimed "Suffice to say that the sound quality will give your ears an orgasm" -- but once the reissue series completed and once Ryko lost the rights to the catalog, Sound + Vision looked more like a curiosity, an artifact of its time, than a major statement.
Much of the problem stems from its design -- it was intended to show off the sound quality, which was a marked improvement over the RCA discs, and to show the depth and breadth of rarities within the vaults. It was not a career-capper; it was a teaser. It was enticing upon its release, and some of it remains so. There's a clutch of early rarities that lead off the set -- the original demo of "Space Oddity," alternate single versions of "The Wild-Eyed Boy From Freecloud" and "The Prettiest Star" -- that are quite good, alternate takes on "John I'm Only Dancing" and "Rebel Rebel" that manage to be notably different without changing the feel, excellent outtakes from Diamond Dogs (a medley of "1984/Dodo"), Station to Station (a glittery, lush cover of Springsteen's "It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City"), and Young Americans (the superb "After Today," a disco-rock song that should have been on the album and is hands down the best rarity here). These suggested the great unearthed treasures that lay ahead, and they remain necessary additions to any serious Bowie collection, particularly because they never showed up on another disc. If they were placed in a better forum, they would function like the rarities on either Biograph or Eric Clapton's Crossroads -- rarities that helped fill in the details of an artist's story -- but since they're in a set that's intended to showcase what the Ryko series would do, not what Bowie had done, they're the main attraction instead of feeding into the greater narrative. And that narrative, while certainly capturing the sometimes bewildering twists and turns in Bowie's career, is an alternate-universe narrative, lacking defining songs, from "Starman" to "Golden Years," and presenting many familiar songs in odd, not particularly interesting variations (a live 1974 version of "Suffragette City," a German version of "Heroes," presented in a 1989 remix). Though it succeeds in conveying Bowie's ever-changing moods, it lacks the substance and sense of a great box set, which this surely could have been. Instead, it's an interesting artifact of the early days of CDs, right down to its overly elaborate packaging, and only those who want to relive that time, or need those rarities, will need this in their collection.
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David Bowie, Producer, Lead Vocals, Writer, Synthesizer, MainArtist - John Hutchinson, Producer, Guitar, Backing Vocals
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Paul Buckmaster, Cello - Peter Mew, MasteringEngineer - Gus Dudgeon, Producer - David Bowie, Arranger, Guitar, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Barry Sheffield, Engineer
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Mick Ronson, Arranger, Guitar, Piano, Backing Vocals - MARC BOLAN, Guitar - David Bowie, Producer, Arranger, Guitar, Programmer, Saxophone, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Mike Moran, Engineer - Mike Garson, Piano - Tony Visconti, Producer, Bass Guitar - Ken Scott, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - John Cambridge, Drums - Ken Fordham, Flute, Saxophone - Trevor Bolder, Bass Guitar - Woody Woodmansey, Drums - Brian 'Bux' Wilshaw, Flute, Saxophone
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David Bowie, Guitar, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Tony Visconti, Producer - John Lodge, Bass - Tim Renwick, Guitar - Mick Wayne, Guitar - John Cambridge, Drums - Ralph Mace, Keyboards
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Mick Ronson, Guitar, Vocals - Peter Mew, Remastering Engineer - David Bowie, Guitar, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Tony Visconti, Producer, Piano, Remix, Electric Bass - Ken Scott, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Nigel Reeve, Remastering Engineer - Mick Woodmansey, Drums - Gerald Chevin, Engineer
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Mick Ronson, Guitar, Vocals - Peter Mew, Remastering Engineer - David Bowie, Guitar, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Tony Visconti, Producer, Remix, Electric Bass - Ken Scott, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Nigel Reeve, Remastering Engineer - Mick Woodmansey, Drums, Percussion - Ralph Mace, Synthesizer - Gerald Chevin, Engineer
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Mick Ronson, Guitar - Ted Jensen, MasteringEngineer - Peter Mew, Digital Remasterer Engineer - Rick Wakeman, Piano - David Bowie, Guitar, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Ken Scott, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Nigel Reeve, Assistant Mastering Engineer - The Actor, Engineer - Mick Woodmansey, Drums - Trevor Bolder, Bass Guitar
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Mick Ronson, String Arranger, Guitar - Peter Mew, Digital Remasterer Engineer - Rick Wakeman, Piano - David Bowie, Guitar, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Ken Scott, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Nigel Reeve, Assistant Mastering Engineer - The Actor, Assistant Production - Mick Woodmansey, Drums - Trevor Bolder, Bass Guitar
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Mick Ronson, Guitar - Chuck Berry, Composer - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist - Ken Scott, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Mick Woodmansey, Drums - Trevor Bolder, Bass
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Mick Ronson, Guitar, Piano, Vocals, Synthesizer, Mellotron - Peter Mew, Remastering Engineer - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Programmer, Saxophone, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Ken Scott, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Nigel Reeve, Remastering Engineer - Trevor Bolder, Bass - Woody Woodmansey, Drums, Percussion
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Mick Ronson, Guitar - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Saxophone, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Ken Scott, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Ken Fordham, Saxophone - Mick Woodmansey, Drums - Trevor Bolder, Bass
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Mick Ronson, Guitar, Piano, Vocals, MixingEngineer - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Programmer, Saxophone, Vocals, Writer, Moog, MainArtist - Mike Moran, Engineer - Mike Garson, Piano - Ken Scott, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Trevor Bolder, Bass Guitar - Woody Woodmansey, Drums
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Linda Lewis, Backing Vocals - Mick Ronson, Guitar, Backing Vocals, MixingEngineer - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Programmer, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Mike Moran, Engineer - Mike Garson, Piano - Ken Scott, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Trevor Bolder, Bass Guitar - Juanita 'Honey' Franklin, Backing Vocals - Woody Woodmansey, Drums - Geoff MacCormack, Percussion, Backing Vocals
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Mick Ronson, Guitar, Vocals - Peter Mew, MasteringEngineer - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Programmer, Saxophone, Vocals, Writer, Harmonica, MainArtist - Mike Garson, Organ, Piano, Mellotron - Tony Visconti, Mixer - Ken Scott, RecordingEngineer - Nigel Reeve, MasteringEngineer - Paul Furedi, Editor - Ken Fordham, Flute, Saxophone - Mick Woodmansey, Drums - Trevor Bolder, Bass - John Hutchinson, Guitar - Ground Control, Audio - Brian Wilshaw, Flute, Saxophone - Geoffrey MacCormack, Percussion, Backing Vocals
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Mick Ronson, Guitar, Vocals - Lou Reed, Writer - Peter Mew, MasteringEngineer - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Programmer, Saxophone, Vocals, Harmonica, MainArtist - Mike Garson, Organ, Piano, Mellotron - Tony Visconti, Mixer - Ken Scott, RecordingEngineer - Nigel Reeve, MasteringEngineer - Paul Furedi, Editor - Ken Fordham, Flute, Saxophone - Mick Woodmansey, Drums - Trevor Bolder, Bass - John Hutchinson, Guitar - Ground Control, Audio - Brian Wilshaw, Flute, Saxophone - Geoffrey MacCormack, Percussion, Backing Vocals
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Mick Ronson, Guitar - David Bowie, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Mike Garson, Keyboards - Paul Furedi, Editor - Ken Fordham, Saxophone - Brian Whilshaw, Saxophone - Mick Woodmansey, Drums - Trevor Bolder, Bass Guitar - John Hutchinson, Guitar - Geoffrey MacCormack, Background Vocals
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Mick Ronson, Guitar, Backing Vocals - Peter Mew, Remastering Engineer - Pete Townshend, Writer - Roger Daltrey, Writer - Aynsley Dunbar, Drums - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Programmer, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Lead Vocals, MainArtist - Mike Garson, Electric Piano - Ken Scott, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Nigel Reeve, Remastering Engineer - Trevor Bolder, Bass Guitar - Mac Cormack, Backing Vocals - Denis Blackeye, Engineer
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Richard Gottehrer, Writer - JERRY GOLDSTEIN, Writer - BOB FELDMAN, Writer - Mick Ronson, Guitar, Piano, Backing Vocals - Peter Mew, Remastering Engineer - Aynsley Dunbar, Drums - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Programmer, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Lead Vocals, MainArtist - Mike Garson, Electric Piano - Ken Scott, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Nigel Reeve, Remastering Engineer - Ken Fordham, Baritone Saxophone - Trevor Bolder, Bass Guitar - Mac Cormack, Backing Vocals - Denis Blackeye, Engineer
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Mick Ronson, Guitar, Backing Vocals - Peter Mew, Remastering Engineer - Aynsley Dunbar, Drums - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Programmer, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Lead Vocals, Harmonica, MainArtist - Mike Garson, Piano, Electric Piano - Ken Scott, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Nigel Reeve, Remastering Engineer - Ken Fordham, Baritone Saxophone - Trevor Bolder, Bass Guitar - Mac Cormack, Backing Vocals - Denis Blackeye, Engineer - Johnnie Dee, Writer
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DISC 2
Mick Ronson, Guitar, Strings - Aynsley Dunbar, Drums - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Mike Garson, Piano - Tony Visconti, Strings - Ken Scott, Producer, MixingEngineer
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Herbie Flowers, Bass Guitar - Peter Mew, Remastering Engineer - Aynsley Dunbar, Drums - Tony Newman, Drums - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Keyboards, Saxophone, Vocals, Writer, Mellotron, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Mike Garson, Harpsichord, Keyboards, Piano, Moog, Mellotron - Tony Visconti, MixingEngineer - ALAN PARKER, Guitar - Nigel Reeve, Remastering Engineer - Keith Harwood, Engineer
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David Bowie, Producer, Drums, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist
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Earl Slick, Guitar - Herbie Flowers, Bass - David Sanborn, Saxophone - Tony Newman, Drums - David Bowie, Producer, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Michael Kamen, Director, Oboe, Piano - Mike Garson, Keyboards - Tony Visconti, Producer, Mixer - Richard Grando, Saxophone - Keith Harwood, Recording - Warren Peace, Backing Vocals - Gui Andrisano, Backing Vocals - Pablo Rosario, Percussion - Edwin H Kramer, Mixer
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Earl Slick, Guitar - Herbie Flowers, Bass - David Sanborn, Flute, Saxophone - Tony Newman, Drums - David Bowie, Producer, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Michael Kamen, Director, Oboe, Piano, Moog - Mike Garson, Keyboards, Piano, Mellotron - Tony Visconti, Producer, Mixer - Richard Grando, Flute, Saxophone - Keith Harwood, Supervisor - Warren Peace, Backing Vocals - Dr. Toby Mountain, Engineer, Digital Masterer - Jonathan Wyner, Engineer, Remixer, Digital Masterer - Showco, Engineer - Gui Andrisano, Backing Vocals - Pablo Rosario, Percussion - Edwin H Kramer, Mixer
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Earl Slick, Guitar - Herbie Flowers, Bass Guitar - David Sanborn, Flute, Alto Saxophone - Tony Newman, Drums - David Bowie, Producer, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Michael Kamen, Oboe, Piano, Moog, MusicDirector - Mike Garson, Keyboards, Piano, Mellotron - Tony Visconti, Producer, MixingEngineer - Richard Grando, Flute, Saxophone - Keith Harwood, Supervisor - Warren Peace, Background Vocals - Dr. Toby Mountain, Remixer, Digital Mastering Engineer - Jonathan Wyner, Engineer, Remixer, Digital Masterer - Showco, Engineer - Gui Andrisano, Background Vocals - Pablo Rosario, Percussion - Edwin H Kramer, MixingEngineer
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Andy Newmark, Drums - Carlos Alomar, Guitar - Luther Vandross, Backing Vocals - Willie Weeks, Bass - Peter Mew, Remastering Engineer - David Sanborn, Saxophone - David Bowie, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Mike Garson, Piano - Tony Visconti, Producer, Mixer - Robin Clark, Backing Vocals - Diane Sumler, Backing Vocals - Larry Washington, Congas - Nigel Reeve, Remastering Engineer - Warren Peace, Backing Vocals - Pablo Rosario, Percussion - Ava Cherry, Backing Vocals - Carl Parulow, Engineer
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Ralph MacDonald, Percussion - Andy Newmark, Drums - Carlos Alomar, Guitar - Luther Vandross, Backing Vocals, Writer - Willie Weeks, Bass - Peter Mew, Remastering Engineer - David Sanborn, Saxophone - David Bowie, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Backing Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Mike Garson, Piano - Harry Maslin, Producer, Mixer - Tony Visconti, Producer, Mixer - Robin Clark, Backing Vocals - Diane Sumler, Backing Vocals - Larry Washington, Congas - Nigel Reeve, Remastering Engineer - Warren Peace, Backing Vocals - Anthony Hinton, Backing Vocals - Ava Cherry, Backing Vocals - Carl Parulow, Engineer
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Andy Newmark, Drums - Carlos Alomar, Guitar - Luther Vandross, Backing Vocals - Willie Weeks, Bass - David Sanborn, Saxophone - David Bowie, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Mike Garson, Piano - Tony Visconti, Producer - Robin Clark, Backing Vocals - Diane Sumler, Backing Vocals - Larry Washington, Congas - Warren Peace, Backing Vocals - Pablo Rosario, Percussion - Anthony Hinton, Backing Vocals - Ava Cherry, Backing Vocals
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Earl Slick, Guitar - Carlos Alomar, Guitar - George Murray, Bass - Dennis Davis, Drums - David Bowie, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Saxophone, Vocals, MainArtist - Harry Maslin, Producer - ROY BITTAN, Piano - David Richards, Mixer - Bruce Springsteen, Writer - Warren Peace, Backing Vocals
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Earl Slick, Guitar - Carlos Alomar, Guitar - George Murray, Bass Guitar - Dennis Davis, Drums - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Programmer, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Vocals, Writer, Moog, Mellotron, MainArtist - Harry Maslin, Producer - ROY BITTAN, Piano - Warren Peace, Backing Vocals
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Earl Slick, Guitar - Carlos Alomar, Guitar - George Murray, Bass Guitar - Dennis Davis, Drums - Dimitri Tiomkin, Writer - Ned Washington, Writer - Peter Mew, Remastering Engineer - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Programmer, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Vocals, Moog, Mellotron, MainArtist - Harry Maslin, Producer - ROY BITTAN, Piano - Nigel Reeve, Remastering Engineer - Warren Peace, Backing Vocals
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Carlos Alomar, Rhythm Guitar - George Murray, Bass Guitar - Dennis Davis, Percussion - Peter Mew, Remastering Engineer - Brian Eno, Guitar, Backing Vocals, Synthesizer - David Bowie, Producer, Saxophone, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Tony Visconti, Producer, MixingEngineer - Roy Young, Piano - Nigel Reeve, Remastering Engineer - Mary Visconti, Backing Vocals - Ricky Gardener, Guitar
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Carlos Alomar, Guitar - George Murray, Bass Guitar - Dennis Davis, Percussion - Ricky Gardiner, Guitar - Peter Mew, Remastering Engineer - Brian Eno, Chamberlain Strings, Piano, Backing Vocals, Moog - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Tony Visconti, Producer, MixingEngineer - Roy Young, Piano - Nigel Reeve, Remastering Engineer - Mary Visconti, Backing Vocals
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Carlos Alomar, Rhythm Guitar - George Murray, Bass Guitar - Dennis Davis, Percussion - Peter Mew, Engineer - Brian Eno, Chamberlain Strings, Piano, Backing Vocals, Moog - David Bowie, Producer, Vocals, Writer, Synthesizer, MainArtist - Tony Visconti, Producer, MixingEngineer - Roy Young, Piano - Nigel Reeve, Engineer
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Robert Fripp, Lead Guitar - Carlos Alomar, Rhythm Guitar - George Murray, Bass - Dennis Davis, Percussion - Brian Eno, Guitar, Keyboards, Writer, Synthesizer - David Bowie, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Keyboards, Saxophone, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Tony Visconti, Producer - David Richards, Mixer
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Robert Fripp, Lead Guitar - Carlos Alomar, Rhythm Guitar - George Murray, Bass Guitar - Dennis Davis, Drums, Percussion - Peter Mew, Remastering Engineer - Brian Eno, Guitar, Keyboards, Synthesizer - Colin Thurston, Engineer - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Keyboards, Saxophone, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Tony Visconti, Producer, Engineer, Background Vocals - David Richards, AssistantEngineer - Nigel Reeve, Remastering Engineer - Antonia Maass, Background Vocals - Eugene Chaplin, AssistantEngineer
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Robert Fripp, Lead Guitar - Carlos Alomar, Rhythm Guitar - George Murray, Bass Guitar - Dennis Davis, Drums, Percussion - Peter Mew, Remastering Engineer - Brian Eno, Keyboards, Synthesizer, Treatment Guitar - Colin Thurston, Engineer - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Keyboards, Saxophone, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, Miscellaneous - Tony Visconti, Producer, Engineer, Background Vocals - David Richards, AssistantEngineer - Nigel Reeve, Remastering Engineer - Antonia Maass, Background Vocals - Eugene Chaplin, AssistantEngineer
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DISC 3
Roger Powell, Synthesizer - Carlos Alomar, Rhythm Guitar - George Murray, Bass - Dennis Davis, Drums - Adrian Belew, Lead Guitar - David Bowie, Producer, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Tony Visconti, Producer, Mixer, Recorder, Audio Recording Engineer - Simon House, Electric Violin - Buford Jones, Engineer - Sean Mayes, Piano, Strings
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Roger Powell, Synthesizer - Carlos Alomar, Rhythm Guitar - George Murray, Bass - Dennis Davis, Drums - Brian Eno, Writer - Adrian Belew, Lead Guitar - David Bowie, Producer, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Tony Visconti, Producer, Mixer, Recorder - Simon House, Electric Violin - Buford Jones, Engineer - Sean Mayes, Piano, Strings
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Roger Powell, Synthesizer - Carlos Alomar, Rhythm Guitar - George Murray, Bass Guitar, Writer - Dennis Davis, Drums, Writer - Adrian Belew, Lead Guitar - David Bowie, Producer, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Tony Visconti, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Simon House, Electric Violin - Buford Jones, Engineer - Sean Mayes, Piano, Strings
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Carlos Alomar, Guitar - George Murray, Bass - Dennis Davis, Drums - Rod O'Brien, MixingEngineer - Peter Mew, Remastering Engineer - Brian Eno, Guitar, Writer, Synthesizer - Adrian Belew, Guitar - David Bowie, Producer, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Stan Harrison, Saxophone - Tony Visconti, Producer, Audio Recording Engineer, MixingEngineer - Nigel Reeve, Remastering Engineer - Simon House, Violin - Sean Mayes, Piano - Eugene Chaplin, AssistantEngineer - Greg Caruso, Assistant Mixing Engineer
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Carlos Alomar, Guitar - George Murray, Bass Guitar - Dennis Davis, Percussion - Rod O'Brien, MixingEngineer - Peter Mew, Remastering Engineer - Brian Eno, Writer, Synthesizer, Eroica Horn, Horse Trumpet - David Bowie, Producer, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Tony Visconti, Producer, Backing Vocals, Audio Recording Engineer, MixingEngineer - David Richards, Audio Recording Engineer - Nigel Reeve, Remastering Engineer - Sean Mayes, Piano - Eugene Chaplin, AssistantEngineer - Greg Caruso, Assistant Mixing Engineer
© 2007 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Carlos Alomar, Drums - Dennis Davis, Bass - Rod O'Brien, MixingEngineer - Peter Mew, Remastering Engineer - Brian Eno, Piano, Writer - Adrian Belew, Guitar - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Tony Visconti, Producer, Backing Vocals, Bass - David Richards, Audio Recording Engineer - Nigel Reeve, Remastering Engineer - Simon House, Violin - Eugene Chaplin, AssistantEngineer - Greg Caruso, Assistant Mixing Engineer
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Robert Fripp, Guitar - Carlos Alomar, Guitar - Chris Porter, Backing Vocals - George Murray, Bass Guitar - Dennis Davis, Percussion - JEFF HENDRICKSON, Assistant - Peter Mew, Engineer - Larry Alexander, Assistant - David Bowie, Producer, Keyboards, Vocals, Backing Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, RecordingEngineer - Tony Visconti, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Backing Vocals, RecordingEngineer - ROY BITTAN, Piano - Nigel Reeve, Engineer - Lynn Maitland, Backing Vocals
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TOM VERLAINE, Writer - Robert Fripp, Guitar - Carlos Alomar, Guitar - Chris Porter, Backing Vocals - George Murray, Bass Guitar - Dennis Davis, Percussion - JEFF HENDRICKSON, Assistant - Peter Mew, Engineer - Larry Alexander, Assistant - David Bowie, Producer, Keyboards, Vocals, Backing Vocals, MainArtist, RecordingEngineer - Tony Visconti, Producer, Backing Vocals, RecordingEngineer - Nigel Reeve, Engineer - Lynn Maitland, Backing Vocals
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Robert Fripp, Guitar - Carlos Alomar, Guitar - Chris Porter, Backing Vocals - George Murray, Bass Guitar - Dennis Davis, Percussion - JEFF HENDRICKSON, Assistant - Peter Mew, Engineer - Larry Alexander, Assistant - David Bowie, Producer, Keyboards, Vocals, Backing Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, RecordingEngineer - Tony Visconti, Producer, Backing Vocals, RecordingEngineer - ROY BITTAN, Piano - Nigel Reeve, Engineer - Lynn Maitland, Backing Vocals - Chuck Hammer, Guitar - Andy Clark, Synthesizer
© 2007 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Bertolt Brecht, Writer - David Bowie, Producer, Vocals, MainArtist - Tony Visconti, Producer, Bass - Dominic Muldowney, Writer
© 2007 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1982 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Kurt Weill, Composer - Bertolt Brecht, Composer - David Bowie, Producer, Vocals, MainArtist - Tony Visconti, Producer, Bass - Dominic Muldowney, Arranger - Thomas Hoffmann, Drums - Michael Bucher, Tuba - Ingo Cramer, Guitar - Axel-Glenn Müller, Tenor Saxophone - Erwin Milzkott, Flute - Bernd Machus, Bandoneon - David Kreitner, Alto Saxophone - Eckehard Scholl, Piano - Joachim Welz, Clarinet - Ralf Armbruster, Trombone - René Waintz, Trumpet - Ulrich Berggold, Contrabass Bass - Uwe Weniger, Viola - Jans-Joachim Glas, Concertmaster - Rolf Brecker, Cello
© 2007 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1982 David Bowie under licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Stevie Ray Vaughan, Guitar - Sammy Figueroa, Percussion - Iggy Pop, Writer - BOB CLEARMOUNTAIN, Mixer, Engineer - NILE RODGERS, Producer, Guitar, Assistant Mixer - OMAR HAKIM, Drums - Tony Thompson, Drums - David Spinner, Backing Vocals - Frank Simms, Backing Vocals - Rob Sabino, Keyboards - Peter Mew, Remastering Engineer - Mac Gollehon, Trumpet - Steve Elson, Flute, Baritone Saxophone - David Bowie, Producer, Mixer, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Stan Harrison, Flute, Tenor Saxophone - Dave Greenberg, AssistantEngineer - CARMINE ROJAS, Bass - George Simms, Backing Vocals - Nigel Reeve, Remastering Engineer - Robert Arron, Flute, Tenor Saxophone
© 2007 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Stevie Ray Vaughan, Guitar - Sammy Figueroa, Percussion - BOB CLEARMOUNTAIN, Mixer, Engineer - NILE RODGERS, Producer, Guitar, Assistant Mixer - OMAR HAKIM, Drums - Tony Thompson, Drums - David Spinner, Backing Vocals - Frank Simms, Backing Vocals - Rob Sabino, Keyboards - Peter Mew, Engineer - Mac Gollehon, Trumpet - Steve Elson, Flute, Baritone Saxophone - David Bowie, Producer, Vocals, Writer, Horns Arranger, Assistant Mixer, MainArtist - Stan Harrison, Flute, Tenor Saxophone - Dave Greenberg, AssistantEngineer - CARMINE ROJAS, Bass - George Simms, Backing Vocals - Nigel Reeve, Engineer - Robert Arron, Flute, Tenor Saxophone
© 2007 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Albumbeschreibung
In 1989, not all major artists had their catalog available on CD, and one of the most notable absences was David Bowie. When the format was in its infancy, RCA had issued several of his classics, but those pressings were notoriously awful and were pulled from the market in 1985 when Bowie acquired the rights to the recordings. Sharp businessman that he is, he took the catalog to market, and after an intense bidding war, he chose to reissue his classic work through Rykodisc, an independent CD-only label that had earned acclaim for its work with Frank Zappa's catalog. Instead of dumping all the discs on the market at once, the titles were slowly rolled out, beginning with a series-encompassing Sound + Vision, a three-CD/one-CD-ROM box set released to great fanfare in the fall of 1989. At the time, box sets were all the rage, following the template of Bob Dylan's Biograph -- an exhaustive career overview that offered all the basics, peppered with some revealing rarities. Upon its release, Sound + Vision was reviewed as if it belonged to this tradition, when it really inverted the formula, offering a series, not career, overview by showcasing alternate versions and rarities, along with album tracks, with a few familiar hits tossed in here and there to provide context. This was a tantalizing way to begin a reissue campaign, and it did receive gushing reviews -- the CD-era publication Rock & Roll Disc breathlessly claimed "Suffice to say that the sound quality will give your ears an orgasm" -- but once the reissue series completed and once Ryko lost the rights to the catalog, Sound + Vision looked more like a curiosity, an artifact of its time, than a major statement.
Much of the problem stems from its design -- it was intended to show off the sound quality, which was a marked improvement over the RCA discs, and to show the depth and breadth of rarities within the vaults. It was not a career-capper; it was a teaser. It was enticing upon its release, and some of it remains so. There's a clutch of early rarities that lead off the set -- the original demo of "Space Oddity," alternate single versions of "The Wild-Eyed Boy From Freecloud" and "The Prettiest Star" -- that are quite good, alternate takes on "John I'm Only Dancing" and "Rebel Rebel" that manage to be notably different without changing the feel, excellent outtakes from Diamond Dogs (a medley of "1984/Dodo"), Station to Station (a glittery, lush cover of Springsteen's "It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City"), and Young Americans (the superb "After Today," a disco-rock song that should have been on the album and is hands down the best rarity here). These suggested the great unearthed treasures that lay ahead, and they remain necessary additions to any serious Bowie collection, particularly because they never showed up on another disc. If they were placed in a better forum, they would function like the rarities on either Biograph or Eric Clapton's Crossroads -- rarities that helped fill in the details of an artist's story -- but since they're in a set that's intended to showcase what the Ryko series would do, not what Bowie had done, they're the main attraction instead of feeding into the greater narrative. And that narrative, while certainly capturing the sometimes bewildering twists and turns in Bowie's career, is an alternate-universe narrative, lacking defining songs, from "Starman" to "Golden Years," and presenting many familiar songs in odd, not particularly interesting variations (a live 1974 version of "Suffragette City," a German version of "Heroes," presented in a 1989 remix). Though it succeeds in conveying Bowie's ever-changing moods, it lacks the substance and sense of a great box set, which this surely could have been. Instead, it's an interesting artifact of the early days of CDs, right down to its overly elaborate packaging, and only those who want to relive that time, or need those rarities, will need this in their collection.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 4 disc(s) - 69 track(s)
- Total length: 04:50:50
- Main artists: David Bowie
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Parlophone UK
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 2007 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2007 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
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