To celebrate its Golden Jubilee, David Bowie's Pin Ups will be issued as a limited edition 50th anniversary half-speed mastered LP.
Recorded at Château d’Hérouville in France, a studio to which Bowie would later return to record Low, Pin Ups was a collection of cover songs paying tribute to bands and artists that had inspired Bowie and that he had seen at various clubs in London in the mid to late 60s. Artists he covered for the album included The Yardbirds, The Kinks, Pink Floyd, The Who, The Pretty Things, The Easybeats and more.
Originally released on 19th October 1973, Pin Ups was Bowie’s seventh studio album and went to number 1 in the UK album chart and featured the top 3 single Sorrow.