David Bowie – Never Let Me Down (CD)
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Relix's audience skews Grateful Dead and jam band, but Bowie's catalog deserves honest treatment. Let me write something accurate. "Never Let Me Down" came out in 1987 and has long been considered one of Bowie's weaker efforts, overshadowed by the Glass Spider Tour spectacle that surrounded it. This release from Rhino/Parlophone appears to be a 2026 reissue, but I don't have confirmed details about what makes this edition distinct, whether it's remixed, remastered, or expanded. Given the rules about only including information I'm 100% confident in, let me write carefully: --- Bowie himself later ranked "Never Let Me Down" among his least favorite works, making any serious reexamination of it genuinely interesting territory. The album arrived at a strange moment in his career, sandwiched between the Let's Dance commercial peak and the raw reinvention that would come with Tin Machine, capturing an artist publicly wrestling with who he wanted to be.
'Never Let Me Down' is the 17th studio album by David Bowie. Bowie conceived the album as the foundation for a theatrical world tour, writing and recording most of the songs in Switzerland. He considered the record a return to rock and roll music. Three singles were released from the album, 'Day-In-Day-Out', 'Time Will Crawl' and 'Never Let Me Down', which all reached the UK Top 40.
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UPC: 5021732853417
Label: Rhino / Parlophone
Release Date: 1.9.26
Format: CD