A brand new fiftieth anniversary vinyl reissue of David Bowie‘s ninth album ‘Younger People’ has been introduced. Discover all the small print under.
The particular version of the file is because of arrive by way of Parlophone on March 7 – the identical day the unique assortment was launched again in 1975. It’ll be accessible on a half-speed mastered LP and an image disc LP with a poster, pressed from the identical grasp.
Bowie’s new urgent of ‘Younger People’ was lower on a customized late Neumann VMS 80 lathe with totally recapped electronics from 192kHz restored masters of the unique grasp tapes, with no extra processing on switch. The half-speed model was lower by John Webber at AIR Studios in London.
Per a press launch, the follow-up to 1974’s ‘Diamond Canines’ noticed Bowie “broaden his musical horizons as soon as extra, embracing what he referred to as ‘Plastic Soul’”. The now-classic single ‘Fame’ (co-written by John Lennon and Bowie’s then-guitarist, Carlos Alomar) would give the late icon his first Quantity One within the US.
YOUNG AMERICANS 50TH ANNIVERSARY VINYL DUE IN MARCH
“Younger American, younger American, you need the younger American…”
DAVID BOWIE YOUNG AMERICANS
fiftieth ANNIVERSARY HALF SPEED MASTERED LP
fiftieth ANNIVERSARY PICTURE DISC LP WITH POSTER
LIMITED EDITION RELEASES
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— David Bowie Official (@DavidBowieReal) January 16, 2025
The ‘Younger People’ album – that includes the lead single of the identical title – was recorded at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a band that featured Mike Garson (keys), the late Luther Vandross (vocals) and David Sanborn (saxophone). Periods additionally occurred at New York Metropolis’s Electrical Girl and the File Plant.
Produced by Bowie’s longtime collaborator Tony Visconti, the full-length undertaking had been partly impressed by the ‘Philly Sound’.
You possibly can pre-order the reissue right here, and see a preview picture and video above.
The tracklist for the David Bowie’s fiftieth anniversary version of ‘Younger People’ is:
SIDE ONE
‘Younger People’
‘Win’
‘Fascination’
‘Proper’
SIDE TWO
‘Any individual Up There Likes Me’
‘Throughout The Universe’
‘Can You Hear Me’
‘Fame’
A fiftieth anniversary version of ‘Diamond Canines’ arrived final yr, following on from a particular half-century reissue of ‘Aladdin Sane’ in 2023. There have additionally been new variations of ‘Ziggy Stardust’ and ‘Hunky Dory’ lately, amongst different releases.
In different information, Tony Visconti and Woody Woodmansey have introduced a 2025 UK tour dubbed ‘A Celebration Of David Bowie’.
