Always one of my favourite Bowie albums released on this day, 46 years ago, whats not to love David rocking out playing some of his favourite tracks by other artists
The 4 tracks I have selected are 2015 Remasters from the Deluxe Boxset Five years 1969-73
Pinups (also referred to as Pin Ups and Pin-Ups) is the seventh studio album by David, containing cover versions of songs, released in 1973 on RCA Records.
Pinups entered the UK chart on 3 November 1973 (coincidentally the same day as Bryan Ferry's covers album These Foolish Things) and stayed there for 21 weeks, peaking at No. 1. It re-entered the chart on 30 April 1983, this time for fifteen weeks, peaking at No. 57. In July 1990, it again entered the chart, for one week, at No. 52.
A version of the Velvet Underground's \"White Light/White Heat\" was recorded during the sessions. It was never released; Bowie donated the backing track to Mick Ronson for his 1975 album Play Don't Worry.
An insert included with the original LP includes the text \"This album is called Pinups\" and the title is written as one word, without a hyphen, on the LP cover and spine, although the disc label spells the title with a hyphen.
According to co-producer Ken Scott, the LP was originally conceived as \"a complete opposite of [Bowie's] other albums\", consisting of all cover songs except one original composition, and mainly turned towards the US market since \"he wanted to do songs that weren't known as well in the States as they were in England\", yet eventually the plan was dropped. Pinups was the first of two \"1960s nostalgia\" albums that Bowie had planned to release. The second, which was planned to be called \"Bowie-ing Out,\" would have contained Bowie covering his favourite American artists, but was never recorded. Bowie also apparently considered making a Pinups sequel: he had compiled a list of songs he wanted to cover, some of which showed up on his later releases of Heathen (2002) and Reality (2003).
In the album booklet, Bowie, writing in his own hand, describes Pinups as:
These songs are among my favourites from the '64–67' period of London. / Most of the groups were playing the Ricky-Tick (was it a 'y' or an 'i'?) -Scene club circuit (Marquee, eel pie island la-la). / Some are still with us. / Pretty Things, Them, Yardbirds, Syd's Pink Floyd, Mojos, Who, Easybeats, Merseys, The Kinks. / Love-on ya!
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Rock Against Racism was a groundbreaking movement which staged marches, festivals and concerts from 1976-81 with the aim of fighting racism through music
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