Bowie Career

Parlophone has unveiled the most anticipated installment of their definitive David Bowie reissue campaign with the release of "A New Career in a New Town". What makes this particular box set so special is that the collection’s focal point is the late, great Duke’s Berlin period, an era considered by many fans to be his most creative span in a career defined by constant change. Working in tandem with longtime producer Tony Visconti and friend Brian Eno (himself immersed in Germany’s experimental electronic movement of the '70s through his collaborative efforts with Cluster), Bowie ushered himself into the punk and new wave era by going against the grain of the time, looking to the works of such Krautrock heroes as Can, Kraftwerk and Neu! to inspire the conception of the three LPs constructed between 1977 and 1979: Low, “Heroes” and Lodger, known by most as the singer’s Berlin Trilogy.

There was nothing predictable about David Bowie. Everything was designed to intrigue, to challenge, to defy all expectations. But perhaps no period in David Bowie's extraordinary career raised more fascination, more surprise, and more questions than the last five years. This is an intimate portrait of one of the defining artists of the twentieth and early twenty first centuries, told by the people who knew him best - his friends and artistic collaborators.

One of the greatest stars of the rock & roll era, David Bowie evaded easy categorization throughout his career, operating as the artiest rocker within the mainstream and the most accessible musician on the fringe. Bowie may have trafficked in ideas cultivated in the underground, but he was never quite an outsider as far as rock & roll was concerned. From the outset of his career in the 1960s, he attempted to break into the Top 40, playing British blues, mod rock & roll, and ornate pop before finally hitting paydirt as a hippie singer/songwriter.

David Bowie One of the greatest stars of the rock & roll era, David Bowie evaded easy categorization throughout his career, operating as the artiest rocker within the mainstream and the most accessible musician on the fringe. Bowie may have trafficked in ideas cultivated in the underground, but he was never quite an outsider as far as rock & roll was concerned. From the outset of his career in the 1960s, he attempted to break into the Top 40, playing British blues, mod rock & roll, and ornate pop before finally hitting paydirt as a hippie singer/songwriter. "Space Oddity" gave Bowie his breakthrough in the U.K., reaching the Top Ten in the summer of 1969 – the summer of Apollo 11 – and it belatedly performed a similar feat in America, giving him his first Top 20 hit early in 1973. By that point, Bowie had traded his folkie persona for the glam-rock alien Ziggy Stardust, one of the many shifts of sound and image that came to define his career.

"The Next Day" is the highly anticipated album by rock legend, David Bowie. The influential musician surprised fans with a haunting video for a new song entitled "Where Are We Now?" and buzz soon began. Produced by long-time collaborator Tony Visconti, "The Next Day" is Bowie's first album in ten years. This rich artistic statement has already received praise from The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, Rolling Stone, Billboard, and many others. Bowie's impressive track record includes album sales exceeding 130 million and countless sold-out shows. His vocals and bold songwriting are as strong as ever.

"The Next Day: Extra" is the collector's edition of David Bowie's critically acclaimed 2013 album "The Next Day". The package includes 24 audio tracks. There is the original 14 track album, as well as the three tracks from the original deluxe edition of "The Next Day", plus four new studio tracks, a bonus track ("God Bless The Girl"), and two new remixes. One of the remixes is done by famed musician/producer/DJ James Murphy, who reworked "Love Is Lost" into a 10-plus minute epic.

This is the final show of the Reality Tour in Japan.The quality is very good indeed, and the taper must have had a great location as there is very little audience bleed.