Singles
None of the songs were released to the public as singles at the time, though a promo version of "All the Madmen" was issued in the U.S. in 1971 (see note below). The same song appeared in Eastern Europe in 1973, as did "The Width of a Circle". "Black Country Rock" was released as the B-side of "Holy Holy" in the UK in January 1971, shortly before the album. The title track appeared as the B-side of both the U.S. single release of "Space Oddity" in 1972 and the U.K. release of "Life on Mars?" in 1973; it also provided an unlikely hit for Scottish pop singer Lulu (produced by Bowie and Ronson) and would be covered by many artists over the years, including Richard Barone in 1987, and Nirvana in 1993, who performed a cover of "The Man Who Sold the World" in their famous Unplugged in New York.
(Note:) Although stock copies have apparently never turned up, according to Michel Ruppli & Ed Novitsky's "The Mercury Labels" Greenwood Press, 1993, "Janine" from the previous album was intended as the B side of the edited "All The Madmen" single (Mercury 73173).
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