En 1970 David Bowie tenía listo el lanzamiento de su tercer disco de estudio, sin embargo, Mercury Records cambió el nombre del disco en el último minuto sin buscar primero la aprobación del artista.
Así el disco quedó con el nombre "The Man Who Sold The World", y fue lanzado con ese nombre, y en el Reino Unido contó con la foto de David Bowie con el pelo largo que es la portada que desde entonces se usa para el disco.
Sin embargo el lanzamiento que David Bowie tenía planeado era distinto, utilizando una caricatura tipo cómic en estilo pop art y con el nombre "Metrobolist" en homenaje a la película de 1927 de ese nombre.
Ahora para su 50 aniversario, el disco será lanzado con el nombre y arte que Bowie quería para su tercer elepé. Parlophone Records añadirá además nuevas ilustraciones e imágenes inéditas de una sesión de Keith MacMillan en Haddon Hall.
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El disco se lanzará en formato de vinilo negro de 180 gramos, así como en vinilo blanco y dorado numerado de edición limitada, que se distribuirán de forma aleatoria.
Este relanzamiento fue remasterizado por Tony Visconti, productor e histórico colaborador de David Bowie, y la lista de canciones será la siguiente.
- ‘The Width Of A Circle’
- ‘All The Madmen’
- ‘Black Country Rock’
- ‘After All’
- ‘Running Gun Blues’
- ‘Saviour Machine’
- ‘She Shook Me Cold’
- ‘The Man Who Sold The World’
- ‘The Supermen’
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METROBOLIST (AKA TMWSTW) 50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION “Oh no, not me, I never lost control...” DAVID BOWIE - 'METROBOLIST’ 50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION RELEASED 6th NOVEMBER ON LIMITED VINYL AND CD FORMATS, ALSO FOR STREAMING AND DOWNLOAD AT STANDARD AND HIGH RESOLUTION DOWNLOAD (96kHz/24bit) This November sees the 50th Anniversary of the release of David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold The World in North America. The rest of the world would have to wait until April 1971 to witness Bowie’s landmark entry into the 1970s. Originally titled Metrobolist, the album’s name was changed at the last minute to The Man Who Sold The World. The 2020 re-release of the album has been remixed by original producer Tony Visconti, with the exception of the track ‘After All’ which Tony considered perfect as is, and is featured in its 2015 remaster incarnation. The Metrobolist 50th anniversary artwork has been created by Mike Weller who was behind the originally intended album artwork which Mercury refused to release. The gatefold sleeve also features images from the Keith MacMillan Mr Fish ‘dress’ shoot at Haddon Hall which would cause so much controversy when one of the shots was used on the cover of the The Man Who Sold The World album in the rest of the world later. As with the Space Oddity 50th anniversary vinyl, as well as a 180g black vinyl edition, it will come in 2020 limited edition handwritten numbered copies on gold vinyl (# 1971 - 2020) and on white vinyl (# 1 - 1970) all randomly distributed. David personally delivered the Metrobolist concept and his gatefold plan to the record company for production and now with this release, it can finally be seen much closer to its original concept. Bowie speaking in 2000 said of the sleeve imagery "Mick Weller devised this kind of very subversive looking cartoon and put in some quite personalised things. The building in the background on the cartoon in fact was the hospital where my half-brother had committed himself to. So for me, it had lots of personal resonance about it.” Read the full press release here: https://smarturl.it/BNetMetrobolistPR #Bowie1970 #BowieMetrobolist #BowieTMWSTW
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