The compilation features the cream of the material the star recorded between 1969 and 1987. David Bowie remains impossible to pigeonhole - first there was Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, a White Soul Boy and a Thin White Duke. He went on to invent synth-pop with Tony Visconti and Brian Eno and then disappeared behind the make-up of Pierrot when the New Romantics mixed all of his eras together. And then, he became a truly global megastar in the 80s. This collection contains four UK No. 1s, 15 Top 10, six Top 20 and 14 Top 75 hits; 338 weeks of UK chart history. But David Bowie could never be contained by statistics alone: any collection that contains Starman, The Jean Genie, Fame, "Heroes", Sound and Vision, Ashes To Ashes, Under Pressure and Let's Dance spells it plainly - this is a collection of some of the greatest and best-known music of the 20th Century by one of its very finest performers. 57 tracks in total.

Diving into a new David Bowie collection is all about comfort. The listener should land somewhere between the reliable pool of radio staples like "Golden Years," "Suffragette City," and "Let's Dance" and the deep water of fan favorites like "TVC 15" and "Look Back in Anger." EMI's three-disc Platinum Collection does an awfully good job of placating fans of both reservoirs, focusing on the Thin White Duke's mercurial 1969-1987 offerings. Each disc covers an era - 1969-1974, 1974-1979, and 1980-1987 - allowing time for both classics ("Starman") and obscurities ("Velvet Goldmine"). The Platinum Collection gets high marks for the inclusion of oft-overlooked gems such as "All the Young Dudes" and "Wild Is the Wind," but it's the appearance of soundtrack nuggets like "When the Wind Blows," from the animated nuclear war fable of the same name, "Underground" from Labyrinth, and "Drowned Girl" from the play Baal that sets this anthology apart from others.

Track List CD1 - The Best Of David Bowie 1969-1974:

01. The Jean Genie [04:09]
02. Space Oddity [05:16]
03. Starman [04:19]
04. Ziggy Stardust [03:17]
05. John, I'm Only Dancing [02:43]
06. Rebel Rebel [04:31]
07. Let's Spend The Night Together [03:08]
08. Suffragette City [03:28]
09. Oh! You Pretty Things [03:15]
10. Velvet Goldmine [03:12]
11. Drive-In Saturday [04:30]
12. Diamond Dogs [06:06]
13. Changes [03:35]
14. Sorrow [02:56]
15. The Prettiest Star [03:15]
16. Life On Mars? [03:53]
17. Aladdin Sane [05:11]
18. The Man Who Sold The World [03:57]
19. Rock 'n' Roll Suicide [03:01]
20. All The Young Dudes [04:12]

Track List CD2 - The Best Of David Bowie 1974-1979:

01. Sound And Vision [03:06]
02. Golden Years (Single Edit) [03:30]
03. Fame [04:15]
04. Young Americans (Single Edit) [03:16]
05. John, I'm Only Dancing (Again) [07:01]
06. Can You Hear Me [05:08]
07. Wild Is The Wind [06:01]
08. Knock On Wood (Live) [03:01]
09. TVC 15 (Single Version) [03:35]
10. 1984 [03:30]
11. It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City [03:50]
12. Look Back In Anger [03:09]
13. The Secret Life Of Arabia [03:49]
14. DJ [04:03]
15. Beauty And The Beast [03:37]
16. Breaking Glass [01:54]
17. Boys Keep Swinging [03:21]
18. Heroes (Single Version) [03:34]

Track List CD3 - The Best Of David Bowie 1980-1987:

01. Let's Dance [04:08]
02. Ashes to Ashes [03:37]
03. Under Pressure [04:06]
04. Fashion [03:26]
05. Modern Love [03:59]
06. China Girl [04:17]
07. Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) [03:33]
08. Up the Hill Backwards [03:16]
09. Alabama Song [03:53]
10. Drowned Girl (Vom Ertrunkenen Madchen) [02:27]
11. Cat People (Putting Out Fire) [04:13]
12. This Is Not America [03:52]
13. Loving the Alien [07:09]
14. Absolute Beginners [05:38]
15. When the Wind Blows [03:35]
16. Blue Jean [03:12]
17. Day.In Day.Out [04:12]
18. Time Will Crawl [04:19]
19. Underground [04:27]