DAVID BOWIE – LODGER LP – Nr MINT A1/B1 UK BOYS KEEP SWINGING

David Bowie – Lodger
(RCA Records  BOWLP1  Black RCA Labels)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1 – UK Pressing

Gatefold Sleeve in Nr MINT condition

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some light surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a figure in popular music for over five decades, regarded by critics and musicians as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, his music and stagecraft significantly influencing popular music. During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at 140 million worldwide, made him one of the world’s best-selling music artists. In the UK, he was awarded nine platinum album certifications, eleven gold and eight silver, releasing eleven number-one albums. In the US, he received five platinum and seven gold certifications. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.

Born in Brixton, South London, Bowie developed an interest in music as a child, eventually studying art, music and design before embarking on a professional career as a musician in 1963. “Space Oddity” became his first top-five entry on the UK Singles Chart after its release in July 1969. After a period of experimentation, he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with his flamboyant and androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust. The character was spearheaded by the success of his single “Starman” and album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, which won him widespread popularity. In 1975, Bowie’s style shifted radically towards a sound he characterised as “plastic soul”, initially alienating many of his UK devotees but garnering him his first major US crossover success with the number-one single “Fame” and the album Young Americans. In 1976, Bowie starred in the cult film The Man Who Fell to Earth and released Station to Station. The following year, he further confounded musical expectations with the electronic-inflected album Low (1977), the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno that would come to be known as the “Berlin Trilogy”. “Heroes” (1977) and Lodger (1979) followed; each album reached the UK top five and received lasting critical praise.

After uneven commercial success in the late 1970s, Bowie had UK number ones with the 1980 single “Ashes to Ashes”, its parent album Scary Monsters and Super Creeps, and “Under Pressure”, a 1981 collaboration with Queen. He then reached his commercial peak in 1983 with Let’s Dance, with its title track topping both UK and US charts. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Bowie continued to experiment with musical styles, including industrial and jungle. He also continued acting; his roles included Major Celliers in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), the Goblin King Jareth in Labyrinth (1986), Pontius Pilate in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Nikola Tesla in The Prestige (2006), among other film and television appearances and cameos. He stopped concert touring after 2004, and his last live performance was at a charity event in 2006. In 2013, Bowie returned from a decade-long recording hiatus with the release of The Next Day. He remained musically active until he died of liver cancer two days after the release of his final album, Blackstar (2016).

Lodger is the thirteenth studio album by English singer-songwriter David Bowie, released in 1979. The last of the ‘Berlin Trilogy’ recorded in collaboration with Brian Eno (though in fact produced in Switzerland and New York), it was more accessible than its immediate predecessors Low and “Heroes”, having no instrumentals and being somewhat lighter and more pop-oriented. However it was still an experimental record in many ways and was not, by Bowie’s standards, a major commercial success. Indifferently received by critics on its initial release, it is now widely considered one of Bowie’s most underrated albums.

Track listing

All lyrics written by David Bowie; all music composed by David Bowie and Brian Eno except where noted.

Side one

1. “Fantastic Voyage” – 2:55
2. “African Night Flight” – 2:54
3. “Move On” (Bowie) – 3:16
4. “Yassassin” (Bowie) – 4:10
5. “Red Sails” – 3:43

Side two

1. “D.J.” (Bowie, Eno, Carlos Alomar) – 3:59
2. “Look Back in Anger” – 3:08
3. “Boys Keep Swinging” – 3:17
4. “Repetition” (Bowie) – 2:59
5. “Red Money” (Bowie, Alomar) – 4:17

Personnel

• David Bowie – vocals, backing vocals, piano, guitar, synthesiser, Chamberlin, producer
• Carlos Alomar – guitar, drums
• Dennis Davis – percussion, bass
• George Murray – bass
• Sean Mayes – piano
• Simon House – violin, mandolin
• Adrian Belew – guitar, mandolin
• Tony Visconti – backing vocals, guitar, mandolin, bass, producer, recording engineer, mixing engineer
• Brian Eno – synthesisers, ambient drone, prepared piano, cricket menace, guitar treatments, horse trumpet, eroica horn, piano, backing vocals
• Roger Powell – synthesiser
• Stan – saxophone
• David Richards – recording engineer
• Rod O’Brien – mixing engineer