Parlophone Records will release its latest special limited David Bowie 7-inch picture disc on Feb. 10, a 40th anniversary edition of “Sound and Vision.”
Originally released in the U.K. on February 11, 1977, “Sound and Vision” was taken from Bowie’s album Low, the first of the so-called “Berlin Trilogy” of albums. The song gave its name to Bowie’s anthology boxed set and its accompanying greatest hits tour in 1990 and is the only track actually performed by him in his stage play Lazurus.
The A-side of the picture disc features a brand new remaster of the track and the flip side sees the first physical release of the 2013 remix of the song. The stripped-back remix by Sonjay Prabhakar, according to a press release, was originally done for a Sony Xperia advertisement and utilizes the original lead vocals and Mary Hopkin’s backing vocal with a new piano part.
According to an article on the song in Wikipedia, “Co-producer Tony Visconti and Bowie originally recorded the track as an instrumental, bar the backing vocal (performed by Visconti’s wife, Mary Hopkin). Bowie then recorded his vocal after the rest of the band had left the studio, before trimming verses off the lyric, and leaving a relatively lengthy instrumental intro on the finished song.”
Bowie first performed the song live in June 1978 and then added it to his regular rotation in 1990 during his Sound + Vision tour, which supported a boxed set of the same name released the previous year.
“Sound and Vision” has been covered at concerts by Beck, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and others.
David Bowie Sound and Vision Limited Edition 40th Anniversary 7″ Picture Disc
A-Side: Sound And Vision (2016 Remaster)
(David Bowie)
Produced by David Bowie & Tony Visconti
B-Side: Sound And Vision (Sony Xperia Mix)
(David Bowie)
Produced by David Bowie & Tony Visconti
Remixed by Sonjay Prabhakar
Watch David Bowie perform “Sound and Vision”
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