David Bowie's 'Be My Wife' to be released on Limited Edition 7"
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16th June 2017 sees the release of the latest in the series of special limited David Bowie 7" picture discs, the 40th-anniversary edition of ‘Be My Wife’ on Parlophone.
Originally released in the UK in June 1977 ‘Be My Wife’ was the 2nd and last single to be taken from the groundbreaking album LOW, the first of the so-called ‘Berlin Trilogy’ of albums. The video for the track, which was Bowie’s first since 1973’s ‘Life On Mars?’, was directed by Stanley Dorfman the original producer & director of the BBC’s Top of The Pops.
The AA side of the 7” picture disc is a previously unreleased live version of the instrumental LOW track ‘Art Decade’ recorded in Perth, Australia in 1978 during the ISOLAR II tour.
The images used on the A and B sides of the picture disc are by Christian Simonpietri and were taken in Paris in June 1977.