DAVID BOWIE – DIAMOND DOGS LP – Nr MINT A1/B1 UK ORIG 1974

David Bowie – Diamond Dogs
(RCA Records  1974  APL10576)
Matrix No’s: ARL1-0576A-1oly A4S/ARL1-0576-B-1oly A4L – UK Pressing

Gatefold Sleeve in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
– some rubbing at bottom of spine edge

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are a few 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.

Diamond Dogs is a concept album by David Bowie, originally released in 1974 on RCA Records, his eighth album.

Track listing

All songs written by David Bowie, except where noted.

Side one

1. “Future Legend” – 1:05
2. “Diamond Dogs” – 5:56
3. “Sweet Thing” – 3:39
4. “Candidate” – 2:40
5. “Sweet Thing (Reprise)” – 2:31
6. “Rebel Rebel” – 4:30

Side two

1. “Rock ‘n’ Roll with Me” (lyrics: Bowie; music: Bowie, Warren Peace) – 4:00
2. “We Are the Dead” – 4:58
3. “1984” – 3:27
4. “Big Brother” – 3:21
5. “Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family” – 2:00

Personnel

• David Bowie – vocals, guitars, saxes, Moog synthesizer, Mellotron, producer, mixing engineer
• Earl Slick – guitar on “Rock ‘n’ Roll with Me”
• Mike Garson – keyboards
• Herbie Flowers – bass guitar
• Tony Newman – drums
• Aynsley Dunbar – drums
• Alan Parker – guitar on “1984”
• Tony Visconti – strings, mixing engineer
• Keith Harwood – engineer, mixing engineer