DAVID BOWIE – LOW LP – Nr MINT- A1/B2 1983 BRIAN ENO IGGY POP

David Bowie – Low
(RCA Records  1983  INTS5065/NL83856)
Matrix No’s: A1/B2

Sleeve in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
– some slight wear to edges and small scratch near opening edge

Vinyl in Nr MINT- condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from some light crackles on side 2)

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.

Low is the eleventh studio album by British musician David Bowie, co-produced by Bowie and Tony Visconti.

Track listing

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

Side one

1. “Speed of Life” – 2:46
2. “Breaking Glass” (Bowie, Dennis Davis, George Murray) – 1:52
3. “What in the World” – 2:23
4. “Sound and Vision” – 3:05
5. “Always Crashing in the Same Car” – 3:33
6. “Be My Wife” – 2:58
7. “A New Career in a New Town” – 2:53

Side two

1. “Warszawa” (Bowie, Brian Eno) – 6:23
2. “Art Decade” – 3:46
3. “Weeping Wall” – 3:28
4. “Subterraneans” – 5:39

Personnel

• David Bowie – vocals, guitar, pump bass, saxophones, xylophones, vibraphones, harmonica, pre-arranged percussion, keyboards: ARP synthesiser, piano, Chamberlin (credited on the album sleeve notes as “tape strings”, “tape-cello” and “tape-horns”)
• Brian Eno – vocals, splinter Minimoog, report ARP, guitar treatments, piano, keyboards, synthetics, Chamberlin, other synthesisers
• Carlos Alomar – rhythm guitar
• Dennis Davis – percussion
• George Murray – bass
• Ricky Gardiner – guitar
• Roy Young – piano, Farfisa organ

Additional personnel

• Peter and Paul – piano, ARP synthesiser
• Mary Visconti – backing vocals on “Sound and Vision”
• Iggy Pop – backing vocals on “What in the World”
• Eduard Meyer – cellos