Fame and Fashion

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Fame and Fashion
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Compilation album by
David Bowie
ReleasedApril 1984
Recorded1969–1980
Genre Rock
Length54:15
Label RCA Victor
Producer Producer varies from track to track
David Bowie chronology
Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture
(1983)		Fame and Fashion
(1984)		 Love You till Tuesday
(1984)
David Bowie compilation chronology
Golden Years
(1982)		Fame and Fashion
(1984)		 Changesbowie
(1990)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Spin Alternative Record Guide 5/10 [3]

Fame and Fashion is a compilation album by English musician David Bowie, issued in 1984 by RCA Records featuring songs recorded from 1969's David Bowie through 1980's Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps). It was released on LP, cassette, and CD formats. The subtitle "David Bowie's All-Time Greatest Hits" appears along with the title on LP and cassette labels, as well as on the CD face and inserts.

Contents

After Bowie left RCA Records in the early 1980s, RCA, wishing to continue to capitalize on Bowie's immense popularity at the time, continued to release compilation albums without his permission or input. All the songs except "'Heroes'" were previously issued on the Changesonebowie and Changestwobowie compilation albums, and three, "Golden Years", "Fashion", and "Ashes to Ashes" appeared on the Golden Years compilation less than a year earlier. In addition, on both the LP's second side and the corresponding tracks on the CD, the original stereo channels are swapped. [4]

Soon after the release of this album and the reissue of his entire RCA album catalog on compact disc, Bowie reclaimed the rights to his recordings and his entire RCA catalogue went out of print. Beginning in 1989, Bowie struck a deal with Rykodisc to reissue his recordings. Bowie's RCA CD catalogue was in print only briefly and the original RCA discs are highly collectible today. As Golden Years and Fame and Fashion were issued without Bowie's authorization, neither album has been reissued in any form subsequent to their original RCA CD editions in 1985.

Track listing

All tracks written by David Bowie except where noted.

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Space Oddity" 5:15
2."Changes" 2:32
3."Starman" 4:10
4."1984" 3:24
5."Young Americans" 5:10
6."Fame"Bowie, Carlos Alomar, John Lennon 4:00
Side two
No.TitleLength
7."Golden Years"4:03
8."TVC 15"5:29
9."Heroes"6:07
10."D.J."3:59
11."Fashion"4:45
12."Ashes to Ashes"4:21

Chart performance

References

  1. ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Review: Fame & Fashion. Allmusic. Retrieved on 8 June 2013.
  2. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press.
  3. ↑ Sheffield 1995, p. 55.
  4. ↑ Pegg, Nicholas (2016). The Complete David Bowie (7th expanded ed.). Titan Books.
  5. 1 2 Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 . St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
  6. ↑ Racca, Guido (2019). M&D Borsa Album 1964–2019 (in Italian). ISBN   9781094705002.
  7. ↑ "David Bowie > Artists > Official Charts". UK Albums Chart . Retrieved 30 January 2017.
  8. ↑ "David Bowie Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved July 24, 2020.

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