ZIGGY MoPi 50th - 2CD & BLU-RAY, 2CD, 2LP GOLD VINYL AND DIGITAL
“Waiting for the gift of sound and vision…”

DAVID BOWIE - ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS - THE MOTION PICTURE - 50th ANNIVERSARY
THE LEGENDARY LAST EVER ZIGGY STARDUST SHOW IS TO BE MADE AVAILABLE IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME DIGITALLY RESTORED WITH REMASTERED AUDIO
2CD & BLU-RAY, 2CD, 2LP LIMITED EDITION GOLD VINYL SET AND DIGITAL (STANDARD 44.1KHZ/16BIT AND 96KHZ/24BIT)
RELEASED 11TH AUGUST
AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW https://lnk.to/Ziggy50

“Of all the shows on this tour, this particular show will remain with us the longest, because not only is it the last show of the tour, but it's the last show that we'll ever do.” David Bowie, 1973

“A truly great star knows not only how to make a grand entrance, but a grand exit.”
Charles Shaar Murray 2023

3rd July, 1973 - David Bowie retired Ziggy Stardust, his most famous alter-ego, in front of 5000 stunned fans at London’s Hammersmith Odeon. Now, the fully restored film and soundtrack will be released for the first time for the 50th anniversary of the show. Renowned filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker (Monterey Pop, Bob Dylan - Don’t Look Back, Depeche Mode - 101) captured the momentous event by filming Bowie and The Spiders From Mars backstage and onstage. The digital restoration of the new version of the film has been overseen by his son, Frazer Pennebaker with remastered audio.

Although filmed 50 years ago, the film was not widely seen for over a decade. However, the film and its soundtrack have been newly remastered with the medley of ‘The Jean Genie/Love Me Do’ medley and ‘Round And Round’ featuring the late legendary Jeff Beck reinstated - the latter track making its very first appearance anywhere. Both performances were newly mixed by long-time Bowie collaborator Tony Visconti.

The show featured Bowie’s famous speech just before the final encore, ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide’, where he revealed that he was retiring the Ziggy Stardust persona. The shocking announcement came as a surprise to all in attendance – including members of his band and was the first proclamation of its kind in rock and roll.

DAVID BOWIE
ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS: THE MOTION PICTURE
50th ANNIVERSARY

Blu-Ray
Opening Credits/Introduction
Hang On To Yourself
Ziggy Stardust
Watch That Man
Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
All The Young Dudes
Oh! You Pretty Things
Moonage Daydream
Changes
Space Oddity
My Death
Cracked Actor
Time
The Width Of A Circle
Let's Spend the Night Together
Suffragette City
White Light/White Heat
Medley: The Jean Genie / Love Me Do / The Jean Genie (feat. Jeff Beck)
Round And Round (feat. Jeff Beck)
Farewell Speech
Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
End Credits
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 – 48kHz/24bit, PCM Stereo – 48kHz/24bit, Aspect Ratio – 4:3. All Regions. Exempt from classification.
5.1 Surround sound music mix by Tony Visconti, assisted by Rich Tozzoli/Gizmo Enterprises. Stereo mix by Tony Visconti.
‘The Jean Genie/Love Me Do’ medley and ‘Round And Round’ stereo: mixed and engineered by Tony Visconti, 5.1: mixed by Tony Visconti, engineered by Jannek Zechner

CD
Disc 1
Introduction Part 1
Hang On To Yourself
Ziggy Stardust
Watch That Man
Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
All The Young Dudes
Oh! You Pretty Things
Moonage Daydream
Changes
Space Oddity
My Death
Disc 2
Cracked Actor
Time
The Width Of A Circle
Let's Spend the Night Together
Suffragette City
White Light/White Heat
Medley: The Jean Genie / Love Me Do / The Jean Genie (feat. Jeff Beck)
Round And Round (feat. Jeff Beck)
Farewell Speech
Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

Vinyl
Side 1
Introduction
Hang On To Yourself
Ziggy Stardust
Watch That Man
Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
All The Young Dudes
Oh! You Pretty Things
Moonage Daydream
Side 2
Changes
Space Oddity
My Death
Cracked Actor
Time
Side 3
The Width Of A Circle
Let’s Spend The Night Together
Suffragette City
Side 4
White Light/White Heat
Medley: The Jean Genie / Love Me Do / The Jean Genie (feat. Jeff Beck)
Round And Round (feat. Jeff Beck)
Farewell Speech
Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide
Digital (standard 44.1kHz/16bit resolution and 96kHz/24bit resolution)
Hang On To Yourself
Ziggy Stardust
Watch That Man
Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
All The Young Dudes
Oh! You Pretty Things
Moonage Daydream
Changes
Space Oddity
My Death
Cracked Actor
Time
The Width Of A Circle
Let's Spend the Night Together
Suffragette City
White Light/White Heat
Medley: The Jean Genie / Love Me Do / The Jean Genie (feat. Jeff Beck)
Round And Round (feat. Jeff Beck)
Farewell Speech
Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

Mastering and remastering by John Webber at AIR Studios, London

Call me picky, but I don't like how they have changed the sleeve to gold yet just done a poor job cutting out the photo/flame image by, presumably, having a quick go on photoshop with an eraser tool. Someone must have really wanted to go home on time!

Maybe just having an all new sleeve would have made more sense, seeing as this design was never anything to shout about in the first place.

This will be an unpopular opinion maybe, but this is one of my favourite Bowie albums.
Maybe it's a time and place thing, but this was foundational for me.
At the time it was (I think) the only way you could see a decent amount of archive Bowie on screen.
I also bought the Love You Til Tuesday vhs at around the same time which again is a building block in my love of Bowie.

So I didn't know or care it was overdubbed and edited, I loved and still love the cover art, and just remember how significant holding the album in my hands was. It seemed to have a really high level of quality to 14 year old me, it felt expensive and classy, and that has not faded.

It's 40 years ago so the chronology isn't perfectly clear, but I read "Bowie is Ziggy, Ziggy is God" scrawled in a school hymn book, saw clips of this on tv and bought the album. That for me was probably the Eureka moment.

Without this record, some great 1983 pop songs might just have been followed by some less great 1984 pop songs. But this was when in my mind it became obvious that Bowie was not a singer, he was something way more significant.

Soon after I shoplifted budget cassette copies of Ziggy and Hunky Dory and then then also swiped the cassette bootleg of His Master's Voice which was the Motion Picture on speed. And I also picked up a copy of 1982's Rare, still my favourite Bowie compilation. At some point in the 80s I saw it on the big screen in 35mm, this was at the Wimbledon cinema in London.

So I honestly wonder if the timing of this album and film (and the LYTT film) running in parallel to the commercial peak and rapid decline, is in part what kept him relevant. I can't really think what other pop star was running this archive mining in parallel at that time.

Clearly it wasn't Bowie's plan, i'm not sure what control he had over those two releases. But with the cd reissues in 1984, there were two Bowies on the shelf, and (again to me) it felt like timelines were confused and Bowie was all these things at once, and they were all new.

So those are my personal reasons for this album being one i'd keep over any studio album released after, and honestly several from before. It's also why I can't stand the new cover and don't really care that it now has the Jeff Beck songs.

Excellent read. Thank you.

For me it was David Live, a live album that is frequently maligned. I clearly remember the time and place when I decided to buy it. Changed my life in number of ways.

i do hope this echo effect is a surround > stereo downmix error and not how this has been mixed in 2023...

https://www.youtube.com/w ... gmPrP93TRA

WPZR-30970/2 for the Japanese edition, same release date. as usual amazon is offering a bonus "mega jacket" in case one copy of that horrible cover isn't enough.

I’m pretty sure it is, this video sounds much better:
https://www.youtube.com/w ... oXYgqo5_8g

It looks like the introduction to part 2 of the concert is not there.

Either its tagged onto the start of Cracked Actor or its dropped for reason of running times (particularly on vinyl which may have been better stretched to a side 5 due to length) and now only available, officially, on the 30th Anniversary.

The detailed track listing for the 2 CD version (on Warner Music Canada) states that CD 1 Track 1 is Intro (including Ode to Joy), that CD 2 Track 1 is Intro (including William Tell Overture), CD 2 Track 2 is Cracked Actor, and the otherwise unannounced CD 2 Track 11 is Rock'n'Roll Suicide including Pomp and Circumstance.

And the price is not unreasonable (CAD 27 + CAD 6 P&P + tax)!

Very nice. Except... They've gone straight from Hunky Dory to this for the deluxe reissue treatment. I'm sure there were a couple of albums between 1971 and '73 that might... maybe... lend themselves to some kind of extensive archive release?

For this release, I'm afraid parlophone did scan from original film or not.
What does "restored 4k" mean?
It means upscale from previous release?

i think it has to be a new scan because it includes the previously unseen footage. however the original source material is not high quality so there is a limit to how much better it can look. it will have been scanned in 4k and there may be a 4k release in the future, but for now it's blu-ray. it's the same principle as remastering audio at 24/96 and issuing on CD at 16/44.

From the clips in Moonage Daydream to the original Ziggy Stardust motion picture I expect it has been re cut with different camera angles showing another prospective to what we have seen before..The sound will of course be amazing...

Would have been nice had they also included Mike Garson (the parson) pre show gig support piano medley, thus stretching the album to 5 sides (and if missing, include the 2nd half intro) If they're going to do a job they may as well do it properly, said no one at Parlophone ever.

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Parlophone are probably holding that back for the 60th anniversary...