David Bowie – Low
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David Bowie – Low

 RCA – PL 12030, RCA Victor – PL 12030

Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: UK
Released: Jan 14, 1977
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Art Rock, Ambient, Experimental

A1 Speed Of Life
A2 Breaking Glass
A3 What In The World
A4 Sound And Vision
A5 Always Crashing In The Same Car
A6 Be My Wife
A7 A New Career In A New Town
B1 Warszawa
B2 Art Decade
B3 Weeping Wall
B4 Subterraneans

    Arranged By – Brian Eno (tracks: B1), David Bowie
    Design [Uncredited] – George Underwood
    Producer – David Bowie, Tony Visconti

Issued with a 12" paper insert with credits; most copies with an orange sticker with the track list on rear cover.

Recorded at The Chateau and Hansa By The Wall.
Mixed at Hansa By The Wall.
Cover photo from 'The Man Who Fell to Earth', a Cinema 5 release.

RCA on sleeve, RCA Victor on labels. (CPL1 2030) appears as reference on labels only.

Initial copies included a small black and white pamphlet advertising the official David Bowie Fan Club and back catalogue.
Generic white die-cut inner sleeve of the Variant 1 shows printer run date 12/76. Copies also exist with printer run date of 11-76 upon initial release.
Variant 19, 27 and 32 has an inner sleeve date 2-77.

NB. The sticker shown in the photos here "Featuring the hit single Sound and Vision", would not have appeared on initial copies and not until at least later in February when the single was released and charted in the UK.

The two different fonts used for catalogue numbers on the fan club leaflet is due to RCA England using a US original leaflet as the basis - UK catalogue numbers which differ from the US numbers are shown in a different font to those where the US and UK catalogue numbers are the same (see the leaflet image of Low).

Less noticeable is the rescan (of the US cover) in the very top RH corner - the area where the US catalogue number appeared has been "shaded in". There is the faint outline of a rectangular section where this has been performed.
    argument Mar 27, 2026
    This is the version to have! Ouch, I absolutely love my copy!

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    Powerg Sep 4, 2022

    Bowie was the Beatles of the 1970s, constantly reinventing himself, always one step ahead of the competition and fastening onto emergent trends with such alacrity he appeared to have invented them. From 1972 onwards Bowie was a major pop star but one fuelled by the marginal and esoteric strands of music and culture. He was major league pop star as cult artist, drawing arcane ideas from the periphery to the centre, and making them mainstream. The Beatles had performed a similar role in the mid to late ‘60s, but they never made an album as radical as Low.

    Low was Bowie's first collaboration with Eno and, supposedly, the first part of the Berlin Trilogy. I say supposedly because 'Berlin Trilogy' seems to be something of a misnomer or journalistic construct. Bowie was living in Berlin during this period but only "Heroes" was completely recorded in Berlin (Lodger was recorded in Montreux and New York and most of Low was recorded at the Chateau d'Herouville in France and then completed in Berlin). And while I'm in the mood for tedious nit-picking here's a bit more: Low does not consist of a songs side and an instrumental side (despite the fact we've been told it does countless times). There are two instrumentals on side one, the album starts with one of them, and three of the four tracks on side two feature vocals.

    Bowie had been fascinated by Eno's solo albums, including Another Green World, which with its mixture of punchy songs and atmospheric instrumentals, shares a good deal in common with Low. Eno arrived at the Honky Chateau with his trusty portable synthesiser in a briefcase. What else did he bring? A profound knowledge of avant-garde artistic traditions, a love of deconstructing conventional song structures, a non-musician's conceptual approach to music making, an irresistible itch to do things differently for the sheer mischief of seeing what happened. And his pack of cards, naturally: Oblique Strategies, 55 instructional cards - a sort of I Ching set up designed to aid creativity and even constructively disrupt it. Bowie and Eno played card games a great deal while making Low. He may only get one songwriting co-credit on the record (for Warszawa, an Eno tune to which Bowie added vocals), and according to Tony Visconti, who co-produced the album with Bowie, about half of the record was recorded before he even turned up, but Eno's maverick sensibility is nonetheless stamped right through Low like