David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold the World  was released as an LP album in the UK by Mercury Records (catalog number 6338 041) on April 8, 1971. Initially named Metrobolist, as a nod to the 1927 film Metropolis, the title was altered at the last moment by Mercury without consulting Bowie. The album was launched with distinct cover designs in the US and the UK. In the US (November 4, 1970), the cover featured a cartoon-style illustration by Michael J. Weller depicting a cowboy i

A portrait of Bowie before the breakthrough — theatrical, tender, and searching — The World of David Bowie captures the moment just before everything changed.