David Bowie – The Platinum Collection – CD

International pressing of Bowie’s Platinum Collection. The compilation features the cream of the material the star recorded between 1969 and 1987. David Bowie remains impossible to pigeonhole – first there was Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, a White Soul Boy and a Thin White Duke. He went on to invent synth-pop with Tony Visconti and Brian Eno and then disappeared behind the make-up of Pierrot when the New Romantics mixed all of his eras together. And then, he became a truly global megastar in the 80s. This collection contains four UK No. 1s, 15 Top 10, six Top 20 and 14 Top 75 hits; 338 weeks of UK chart history. But David Bowie could never be contained by statistics alone: any collection that contains Starman, the Jean Genie, Fame, ‘Heroes’, Sound and Vision, Ashes to Ashes, Under Pressure and Let’s Dance spells it plainly – this is a collection of some of the greatest and best-known music of the 20th Century by one of it’s very finest performers. 57 tracks in total. EMI. 2005.

Disc: 1
1 The Jean Genie (1997 Remaster)
2 Space Oddity (1997 Remaster)
3 Starman (1997 Remaster)
4 Ziggy Stardust (1997 Remaster)
5 John, I’m Only Dancing (Sax Version) [1997 Remaster]
6 Rebel Rebel (1997 Remaster)
7 Let’s Spend the Night Together (1997 Remaster)
8 Suffragette City (1997 Remaster)
9 Oh! You Pretty Things (1997 Remaster)
10 Velvet Goldmine (1997 Remaster)
11 Drive-In Saturday (1997 Remaster)
12 Diamond Dogs (1997 Remaster)
13 Changes (1997 Remaster)
14 Sorrow (1997 Remaster)
15 The Prettiest Star (1997 Remaster)
16 Life on Mars? (1997 Remaster)
17 Aladdin Sane (1997 Remaster)
18 The Man Who Sold the World (1997 Remaster)
19 Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide (1997 Remaster)
20 All the Young Dudes (1997 Remaster)

Disc: 2
1 Sound and Vision (1998 Remaster)
2 Golden Years (1998 Remaster)
3 Fame (1998 Remaster)
4 Young Americans (1998 Remaster)
5 John, I’m Only Dancing (Again) [1998 Remaster]
6 Can You Hear Me (1998 Remaster)
7 Wild Is the Wind (1998 Remaster)
8 Knock on Wood (Live) [1998 Remaster]
9 TVC 15 (1998 Remaster)
10 1984 (1998 Remaster)
11 It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City
12 Look Back in Anger (1998 Remaster)
13 The Secret Life of Arabia (1998 Remaster)
14 D.J. (1998 Remaster)
15 Beauty and the Beast (1998 Remaster)
16 Breaking Glass (1998 Remaster)
17 Boys Keep Swinging (1998 Remaster)
18 Heroes (1998 Remaster)

Disc: 3
1 Let’s Dance (2002 Remaster)
2 Ashes to Ashes (2002 Remaster)
3 Under Pressure (1994 Remaster) – Queen & David Bowie
4 Fashion
5 Modern Love (2002 Remaster)
6 China Girl (2002 Remaster)
7 Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) [2002 Remaster]
8 Up the Hill Backwards (1999 Remaster)
9 Alabama Song (Aufstieg Und Fall Der Stadt Mahagonny) [2005 Remaster]
10 The Drowned Girl
11 Cat People (Putting Out Fire) [Single Version] [2002 Remaster]
12 This Is Not America (2002 Remaster) – David Bowie & The Pat Metheny Group
13 Loving the Alien (1999 Remaster)
14 Absolute Beginners (2002 Remaster)
15 When the Wind Blows (2002 Remaster)
16 Blue Jean (1999 Remaster)
17 Day-In Day-Out (2002 Remaster)
18 Time Will Crawl (1999 Remaster)
19 Underground (2002 Remaster)