Counterfeit Guide
David Bowie — Diamond Dogs
RCA APL1 0576
Last updated June 4, 2026
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The 1974 UK Diamond Dogs on RCA APL1 0576 is famous for the Guy Peellaert gatefold painting of Bowie as a half-dog. The earliest, withdrawn state shows the dog's visible genitalia, which RCA quickly airbrushed out, making the uncensored gatefold extremely valuable. The label is the orange RCA Victor design with 'Made in England' rim text, and first pressings carry hand-etched APL1 0576 matrices.
Matrix / Runout
UK firsts carry RCA APL1 0576 A/B matrices hand-etched with mastering suffixes. The uncensored gatefold is the key value driver; fakes show typeset runouts and the censored artwork.
3 Tells That Reveal a Fake
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The gatefold is the censored (airbrushed) version being sold as the rare uncensored first — check the dog's hindquarters; genuine withdrawn copies show the unretouched detail.
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The Peellaert artwork colours are dull or pixelated rather than the rich painterly litho reproduction of the original.
- 3
The label is the wrong RCA era or the runout is machine-typeset instead of the hand-etched APL1 0576 matrix.
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