{"id":15827,"date":"2018-07-29T21:35:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T02:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bostonsurvivalguide.net\/wordpress\/?p=15827"},"modified":"2018-08-02T22:18:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T03:18:41","slug":"david-bowies-never-let-me-down-album-is-reborn-as-part-of-the-upcoming-loving-the-alien-1983-1988-box-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bostonsurvivalguide.net\/wordpress\/2018\/07\/david-bowies-never-let-me-down-album-is-reborn-as-part-of-the-upcoming-loving-the-alien-1983-1988-box-set\/","title":{"rendered":"David Bowie’s Never Let Me Down album is reborn as part of the upcoming Loving The Alien (1983-1988) box set"},"content":{"rendered":"

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David Bowie’s Never Let Me Down<\/em> album, while frequently panned, then and now, by the musical elite (and by some fans) for not being his best work, holds a special place in my heart. It was at the time of this record’s release and subsequent world tour that I was most deeply immersed in my Bowie fandom. I had just begun publishing a David Bowie newsletter with legendary fan Rose Winters called ‘Bowie Bits’ (her name, not mine! It would soon be changed to ‘Sound & Vision’), and I followed the European and U.S. legs of that tour, reporting on the highly ambitious and wildly extravagant Glass Spider Tour shows. So now, 31 years later (egads!), the much-maligned Never Let Me Down<\/em> album has been not just re-recorded but remade<\/em> by former Bowie collaborators Reeves Gabrels<\/a><\/strong>, Mario McNulty<\/a><\/strong> and others, as part of an eye-popping 11-CD, 15-record box set called Loving The Alien<\/em> (Warner Music\/Parlophone), which will see its release on October 12.<\/p>\n

Before I launch into all the info., which is head-spinning, have a listen to “Zeroes,” the first single from the collection.<\/p>\n