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Pin Ups




  Type LP
  Artist David Bowie
  Cover PinUpsjpg
  Background Plum
  Released October 1973
  Recorded
  Genre Glam Rock
  Length 40:30
  Label RCA
  Producer Ken Scott and David Bowie
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  Last Album Aladdin Sane <br />(1973)
  This Album Pin Ups<br />(1973)
  Next Album Diamond Dogs <br />(1974)


''Pin Ups'' is a 1973 covers album by David Bowie .

The woman on the cover with Bowie is 60's supermodel Twiggy .

It entered the UK chart September 3rd, 1973, stayed there for 21 weeks, peaking at #1. It re-entered the chart on April 30th, 1983, this time for 15 weeks, peaking at #57. In July 1990 it again entered the chart for one week at #52.


TRACK LISTING


# " Rosalyn " ( Jimmy Duncan / Bill Farley ) - (2:27)
# " Here Comes The Night " ( Bert Berns ) - (3:09)
# " I Wish You Would " ( Billy Arnold ) - (2:40)
# " See Emily Play " ( Syd Barrett ) - (4:03)
# " Everything's Alright " (Crouch/Konrad/Stavely/James/Karlson) - (2:26)
# " I Can't Explain " ( Pete Townshend ) - (2:07)
# " Friday On My Mind " (Young/Vanda) - (3:18)
# " Sorrow " (Feldman/Goldstein/Gottehrer) - (2:48)
# " Don't Bring Me Down " ( Johnnie Dee ) - (2:01)
# " Shapes Of Things " (Samwell-Smith/McCarty/Relf) - (2:47)
# " Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere " ( Pete Townshend / Roger Daltrey ) - (3:04)
# " Where Have All The Good Times Gone " ( Ray Davies ) - (2:35)


Reissue bonus tracks

Rykodisc / EMI reissued Pin Ups on CD with bonus track in 1990. In common with the rest of Bowie's back catalogue it was remastered in 96 kHz/24bit in the late nineties and a new version, without bonus material, was released in 1999.

# " Growin' Up " ( Bruce Springsteen ) (Previously unreleased track from the Pin Ups sessions)
# " Amsterdam " ( Jacques Brel / Mort Shuman ) (B-side of the "Sorrow" single)

A version of " White Light/White Heat " was recorded during the sessions and Bowie donated the backing track to Mick Ronson's ''Play Don't Worry'' album.


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