''Bowie – The Video Collection'' is a video album by

David Bowie David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie ( ), was an English singer-songwriter and actor. A leading figure in the music industry, he is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the ...

, released in 1993. It included most official music videos made by Bowie between 1972 and 1990.

Release and reception

This video collection was released as a tie-in to the audio release of Bowie's '' The Singles Collection'', released at the same time and with similar packaging. The release was hailed by '' Q'' magazine at the time as "the greatest video collection ever seen" and contained most, but not all of, Bowie's official videos released between 1972 and 1990. It did not include any videos from Bowie's time with

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, nor did it include any of the videos from his album ''

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'' video collection, which had been released only a few months prior. Notable video inclusions on this release were the videos for " As the World Falls Down" and "

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", which until this compilation, had not previously been officially released.

Track listing

All tracks were written by

, except where noted, and include the year the video was originally made. # "Space Oddity" (''

'', December 1972) # "John I'm Only Dancing" (non-album single, September 1972) # "The Jean Genie" ('' Aladdin Sane'', November 1972) # "Life on Mars?" (''

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'', June 1973) # "Be My Wife" ('' Low'', June 1977) # ""Heroes"" (Bowie, Brian Eno) ('' "Heroes"'', September 1977) # "Boys Keep Swinging" (Bowie, Eno) ('' Lodger'', April 1979) # "Look Back in Anger" (Bowie, Eno) (''Lodger'', August 1979) # "D.J." (Bowie, Eno,

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) (''Lodger'', June 1979) # "Ashes to Ashes" ('' Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)'', August 1980) # "Fashion" (''Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)'', October 1980) # "Wild Is the Wind" (Washington, Tiomkin) (''

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'', November 1981) # "Let's Dance" ('' Let's Dance'', March 1983) # "China Girl" (Bowie, Iggy Pop) (censored version) (''Let's Dance'', May 1983) # "Modern Love" (''Let's Dance'', September 1983) # "Blue Jean" (short version) (''

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'', September 1984) # "Loving the Alien" (censored version) (''Tonight'', May 1985) # "Dancing in the Street" (Hunter, Stevenson, Gaye) (non-album single, August 1985) # "Absolute Beginners" ('' Absolute Beginners'', March 1986) # "Underground" (''

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'', June 1986) # "As the World Falls Down" (previously unreleased until this compilation) (''Labyrinth'', December 1986) # " Day-In Day-Out" (censored version) (''

'', March 1987) # " Time Will Crawl" (''Never Let Me Down'', June 1987) # "Never Let Me Down" (Bowie, Alomar) (previously unreleased until this compilation) (''Never Let Me Down'', August 1987) # "Fame '90" (Bowie,

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, Alomar) (''

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'', March 1990)

References

* 1993 video albums David Bowie video albums Music video compilation albums 1993 compilation albums {{1990s-rock-album-stub