David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World (Picture Disc)This week sees the 50th anniversary of the original U. K. release of The Man Who Sold The World David Bowies landmark entry into the 1970s. The album not only began the collaboration with guitarist Mick Ronson that would continue with such Bowie classics as Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane, it kicked off a 10 year run of indispensable albums stretching through 1980s Scary Monsters.

the grand finale and biggest climactic triumph of the Sampladelic Decade

1966 and two more ("Lord Help Me To Be" and "The Sun") from Alice Coltrane's very first session as a bandleader

and Joe Duddell

wooing women

Ironically

” It’s that ethereality and true sense of time and place that Chapman-Fox has captured so well here

Roland JP-4 and Arp 2600 synthesizers propelled by primitive rhythms programmed on a prototype of Roger Linn's nascent drum-machine

as people have hungered for this vintage

on ‘sketchy

it’s a musical masterclass where elements of garage

you can hear the kinks

heard in full effect on Lucinda