Starman

 

1972 Japan PS1 Promo - A Side

1972 Japan PS1 Promo - B Side

1972 Japan PS1 Promo - A Side

1972 Japan PS1 Promo - B Side

1972 Japan Picture Sleeve 1

1972 Japan Picture Sleeve 1 (Back)

Like most Japanese sleeves this is a (printed sheet) insert as opposed to a sleeve

1972 Japan PS1 Issue - A Side

1972 Japan PS1 Issue - B Side

RCA Promos didn’t always come in the Red RCA inner bags, sometimes they just came in plain white sleeves


The Tri-Centre Promos have silver lettering on an off-white label

1976 Japan Picture Sleeve 2

1976 Japan Picture Sleeve 2 (Back)

1972 Japan PS1 Issue - A Side

1972 Japan PS1 Issue - B Side

1972 -1976 Japan PS1 Issue - A Side

1972 - 1976 Japan PS1 Issue - B Side

From 1976 Japan PS2 Issue - A Side

From 1976 Japan PS2 Issue - B Side

The Large Centre Promos have black lettering on a white label

1972 Japan PS1 Issue - Inner Bag (early issues)

1972 Japan PS1 Issue - Inner Bag (later issues)

1976 Japan PS2 Issue - Inner Bag (last issues - RVC)

Starman was David Bowie’s best selling single in Japan and was kept on catalogue into the early ’80’s

↑ Click for the UK releases

↑ Click for the North American releases

↑ Click for the French release

↑ Click for the German release

↑ Click for the Dutch release

↑ Click for the Spanish releases

↑ Click for the Italian releases

↑ Click for the Australian &

New Zealand releases

↑ Picture Sleeve 1

↑ Picture Sleeve 2 - RVC Pressing

Starman was pressed in 3 pressing plants

As there is a lot of pressings there is quite a lot of colour variation in the sleeves

All the above records are manufactured by ‘Victor Company of Japan Ltd, Yokohama’

This is a later pressing and was made by ‘Victor Musical Industries, Tokyo’

This even later pressing was manufactured by ‘RVC Corporation, Tokyo’

These copies have their own red RVC bag and the picture sleeves don’t have the ‘J.I.S.’ Logo on them

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Japanese Industrial Standards

Logo

This later sleeve does not have the J.I.S. Logo.

There are both textured matt and smooth glossy versions of this sleeve.

↑ Click for the Argentinian release

↑ Click for the Greek release

↑ Click for the Brazilian Promo

↑ Click for the South African release

↑ Click for the Portuguese & Angolan releases

↑ Click for the Yugoslavian release