Talk:David Bowie discography

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Added the link to the Illustrated db Discography. This should do the trick - very obsessed people will find what they're looking for, I'm 100% sure. XAVeRY 22:38, 25 Sep 2005 (CEST)

I guess this page should probably not be a completely "complete" discography, as it would take up too much space, but maybe we could link to one, online...

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[edit] Just a few queries...

Is "Love You Till Tuesday" really a studio album? It wasn't issued until 1984, and is more a compilation/soundtrack album, just with some unreleased material...

I've got a similar reservation about listing Labyrinth there as well... half of the album is by Trevor Jones for a start... Considering the amount of soundtracks Bowie's completed unique material for (When the Wind Blows, Absolute Beginners etc) wouldn't it make more sense to have a seperate soundtracks section?

Just a thought :)

Tom Prankerd 17:26, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Video

it seem the video section was very underdeveloped so I added some info i found here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_d/102-2723601-7514516?url=search-alias%3Dvhs&field-keywords=David+Bowie&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go --AlexOvShaolin 04:51, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Man Who Sold the World live album?

What exactly is The Man Who Sold the World live album? I have never of a live album sharing the title The Man Who Sold the World, in 1983 Mercury records did not own the rights to any of Bowie's material anymore, and neither the Illustrated DB Discography nor Bassman's David Bowie page mention a live album with this name, so this sounds dubious at best. -- Kjet 15:10, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, it seemed to be a mix-up with the Ziggy Stardust - The Motion Picture album (release date & chart performance matched with ZS-TMP), so I replaced TMWSTW with ZS-TMP on the list. -- Kjet 15:23, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Additional External Link

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  • http://tsort.info/music/vb4agf.htm and http://tsort.info/music/g7fv30.htm - Songs and Albums by David Bowie in music charts around the world.

I believe that this is a directly relevant link to a unique resource. The target pages have content that complements the current elements of this page and cannot easily be inserted into the existing article.

However as I am the maintainer of the external website I understand that my opinion may be biased and hence I am (rightly) prevented from making the change myself by Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest rules. I ask that you consider adding this link and comment here.

Steve.hawtin (talk) 17:38, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi. If I remember correctly, this website was inserted once before into the article David Bowie (8 December 2007), and reverted. External links are of secondary importance to an article ("Wikipedia is not a repository of links"), the primary reason for using URLs of sites outside Wikipedia is to reference or source the information contained within the article. Whilst your website may well be useful as a resource, it is not the purpose or duty of an encyclopedic article to supply links to such tools. If your website were to be used to reference or source information in the article, in the form of inline citations, then that would be a whole new issue. But as far as your request above, and in the related main article, goes, I am not in favour. Thanks. Ref (chew)(do) 14:16, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
I agree with User:Refsworldlee that adding the link is inappropriate, and I cleared the edit request above. But thanks to User:Steve.hawtin for going through the right channels to ask about this! EdJohnston (talk) 04:44, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] No US Certification

Can someone add the US Certifications for the studio albums? Right now there are only UK and Canada Certifications up, unless one is actually the US.Cosprings (talk) 22:11, 28 March 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Missing single

He did a single with Placebo called Without you i'm nothing released in 1999 but i dont know how to edit the page to include this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.129.40.214 (talk) 19:57, 4 June 2008 (UTC)