Don't You Wonder Sometimes: Bowie's "Sound and Vision" Gets Picture Disc In February

Don’t You Wonder Sometimes: Bowie’s “Sound and Vision” Gets Picture Disc In February

January 4, 2017 By Joe Marchese — No Comments

On February 10, Rhino Records and Parlophone will continue the long-running series of David Bowie 7″ vinyl picture disc singles with the release of “Sound and Vision” in time for the classic song’s 40th anniversary.

“Sound and Vision” was released almost forty years ago to the day of this reissue – February 11, 1977 – in the United Kingdom from Bowie’s Low, the first album in the artist’s storied Berlin Trilogy created in collaboration with co-producer Tony Visconti and Brian Eno, among other fine musicians. The title gained further notoriety as the title of his career-spanning Rykodisc box set and a 1990 tour; the song was also heard (in Bowie’s recording) in his 2015 stage musical Lazarus.

The A-side of the upcoming single features a newly-remastered version of the original track, while the B-side offers the 2013 remix of the song for the first time on vinyl. This remix, by Sonjay Prabhakar, was originally created for a Sony XPeria mobile phone advertisement. It strips the song down with the lead by Bowie and backing vocal by “Those Were the Days” singer Mary Hopkin (then Mrs. Tony Visconti), adding new piano accompaniment.

The picture disc edition of “Sound and Vision” is due from Rhino/Parlophone on February 10. Order links are not yet available, but watch this space!

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song and beyond, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with labels including Real Gone Music and Cherry Red Records, has released newly-curated collections produced and annotated by Joe from iconic artists such as Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Spinners, Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Meat Loaf, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Liza Minnelli, Darlene Love, Al Stewart, Michael Nesmith, and many others.

Joe has written liner notes, produced, or contributed to over 200 reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them America, JD Souther, Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, BJ Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, Petula Clark, Robert Goulet, and Andy Williams.

Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray.

Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.