In the last couple of years, quite a number of errors appeared on David Bowie reissues. I personally think that the 2004 2CD reissue of 1. Outside (Columbia COL 511934 9) is the worst contender in this respect. Maybe it's interesting to summarize all known mispressings, misprints and typos in this topic! Let's restrict this to official releases because I don't think there's a single Russian pirate CD that has the track listing completely right

I'll start off with the recent Japanese Sony Heathen paper sleeve reissue (Sony MHCP 1346-7). Early pressings credited the album on the spine to David BOY rather than Bowie. Apparently Sony tried to withdraw these misprints but I don't know to what extent they succeeded. I don't have a scanner at hand and the print is too small to capture with my camera.

That would be this one:


On the other hand, I don't know if they changed it for the US/EU release.

Not that anyone here will understand it, this is copy of Sony's letter recalling the Heathen "David Boy" misprint. It was sent to all identified purchasers with a replacement sleeve and pre-paid envelope to return the original.

Ha! That is very nice to know, and exactly the type of information I would love to find in a forum like this .
Very nice that they replaced it as well. There are a few more examples where that might have been a good idea.

This isn't a misprint, but I'll be very surprised if EMI UK authorised the artwork. Instead of track timings, this Brazilian S+V Ziggy appears to quote EMI's internal catalogue or tape reference numbers for each track.

Interesting stuff Alan, keep things like that coming!

OK, the next one isn't a misprint either. I had not noticed myself, but someone kindly sent me a scan of a piece of text is printed on the BTWN DVD. This was copied verbatim from the IdbD. The funny thing is they forgot to remove the reference to "bottom" after the catalogue number of the VideoCD!

LOL - Well at least your work is appreciated .....

And not even a credit for the IdbD!

It is amazing how these errors can give us an insight into how releases are put together. I'm sure that everyone already knows about the European (not UK) Limited Edition David Live tracklist misprint. Somehow, track 11, disc 1 was moved to the top of the tracklist for disc 2. A simple layout error or something else? We may never know for certain, but the US Press Release (below) does suggest that disc 2 originally opened with "Watch That Man". Which may also mean that somebody, somewhere has an in-house CD promo that opens with "Watch That Man". Something I'd love to get my hands on so that I can stream the CD mix from my home server without the fades between the discs.

I have the same edition cdr set that opens with Knock on wood. I too was wondering why my set had watch that man as track One on cd 2 even on the promo insert WTM is track one.

Not very exciting, but I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else. A UK lodger with the 'Heroes' UK catalogue number, CDEMD 1025. It should be CDEMD 1026.

I have a Buddha of Suburbia cd (the 1993 UK version) that plays cd1 of something called 'Pop Show 93' - one of those terrible Top40 collections

Now I think about it, it should be possible to rip the audio from the DVD-A, which is 1 disc. I don't have that disc (yet), when I get it I'll have a go at it - I was planning on buying it in the near future anyway.

BMG Australia couldn't decide which catalogue number to allocate to this one.

Not really a misprint, mispressing or typo, but along these lines anyway... In my copy of the 1999 reissue of Tin Machine, half of the pages in the lyric booklet are actually for Lodger (first two sheets of paper, i.e. pages 1-4 and 13-16 are the correct ones, the two middle sheets, pages 5-12, are from Lodger). I've been told that there are copies of Lodger out there with the center pages from Tin Machine instead. No idea how common these are, or how they managed to make the mistake for that matter.