David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World (Picture Disc)This week sees the 50th anniversary of the original U. K. release of The Man Who Sold The World David Bowies landmark entry into the 1970s. The album not only began the collaboration with guitarist Mick Ronson that would continue with such Bowie classics as Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane, it kicked off a 10 year run of indispensable albums stretching through 1980s Scary Monsters.

it was a brilliantly spontaneous and productive time taking just over 3 days to come to fruition

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to cut a brand-new half-speed master and let the music speak for itself

giving the final product a bit of a ghostly feel

but above and below the guitar

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the only advice I gave him was that the weirder the better

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Billy Preston and Phil Spector

became a natural end chapter for the band