Limited 11 CD set including 128-page hardcover book. Contains the albums Let's Dance (remastered), Serious Moonlight (Live '83/2CD), Tonight (remastered), Never Let Me Down (remastered), Never Let Me Down 2018 (previously unreleased), Glass Spider (Live Montreal '87/2CD), Dance, Re: Call 4 (non-album singles, edits, single versions, b-sides and soundtrack music/2CD). Also includes digital downloads of each album. David Bowie Loving The Alien (1983 - 1988) is the fourth in a series of box sets spanning his career from 1969. Among the studio and live albums from the period, the set contains an exclusive new production of the 1987 album Never Let Me Down, by Bowie producer/engineer Mario McNulty with new instrumentation by Bowie collaborators Reeves Gabrels, David Torn, Sterling Campbell and Tim Lefebvre. Never Let Me Down (2018) also boasts a string quartet with arrangements by Nico Muhly and a guest cameo by Laurie Anderson on ‘Shining Star (Makin’ My Love)’. The accompanying book features rarely seen and previously unpublished photos by photographers including Denis O’Regan, Greg Gorman, Herb Ritts and many others as well as historical press reviews and technical notes about the albums from producers/engineers Nile Rodgers, Hugh Padgham, Mario McNulty and Justin Shirley-Smith.
- First Released: 2018
- Label: Parlophone