Pin Ups [Remaster]

Performer: David Bowie
Artist: Mick Ronson; Mike Garson
Engineer: Denis Blackeye
Producer: Ken Scott; David Bowie; Ken Scott; David Bowie
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: PIN UPS is an album of songs originally performed by the Pretty Things, Them, the Yardbirds, Pink Floyd, the Mojos, the Who, the Easybeats, the Merseybeats and the Kinks. This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Personnel: David Bowie (vocals, guitar, harmonica, saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, keyboards, Moog synthesizer, background vocals); David Bowie; Mac Cormack (vocals); Ron Wood (guitar); Trevor Bolder (bass instrument); Mick Ronson (vocals, guitar, piano, background vocals); Mike Garson (harp, piano, electric piano, harpsichord, organ, keyboards); Ken Fordham (saxophone, baritone saxophone); Aynsley Dunbar (drums); G A MacCormack (background vocals). Audio Remasterers: Nigel Reeve; Peter Mew. Liner Note Author: David Bowie. Recording information: Ch�teau D'Herouville, Paris, France (1973). Photographers: Mick Rock ; Justin DeVilleneuve; Sukita. Unknown Contributor Roles: Pierre LaRoche; Kuni Takeuchi. Arrangers: David Bowie; Mick Ronson. PIN UPS served as a sort of "how to" guide to David Bowie's career. This all-covers album shed light on his ability to adopt personas and emulate musical genres with amazing speed and diversity. It also showed that Bowie was anticipating a different musical climate for the rest of the decade, signifying a change from what was admired during the 1960s. The psychedelic overtones of Pink Floyd's "See Emily Play" and the garage rock cynicism of the Easybeats' "Friday On My Mind" perfectly display Bowie's ear for melody and eye for pop-culture posturing. He even tips a hat to his more established influences. The Kinks' "Where Have All The Good Times Gone" sparks his interest as a memory-soaked ballad (a Ray Davies specialty), and with The Who's "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" Bowie admits to not having invented the rock 'n' roll ego. PIN UPS served another suitable purpose for the chameleonic performer, down-playing his other-worldly image by betraying his influences. By presenting Bowie as an actual fan--and not just an image/style manipulator--the album portrayed the singer in a different light, allowing him to loosen up his approach to performing and to step outside the multiple characters he had created for himself.

The mercurial David Bowie is the original pop chameleon. He's been everything from inoffensive pop singer to glam icon to white soul man to art-rocker and more in the course of his long, prolific career. Although Bowie's first hit was 1969's "Space Oddity," he didn't arrive as a full-formed pop sensation until he unveiled his Ziggy Stardust persona in 1972. After retiring Ziggy in 1974, Bowie moved from dystopian rock to Philly soul to cutting-edge experimental pop, all within the span of three years. In the following decades, Bowie has regularly released albums and starred in movies. Perhaps the most startling thing is that he's been at the forefront of so many musical movements, inspiring a slew of genres spearheaded by countless Bowie disciples.

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