Pin Ups (also referred to as
Pinups and
Pin-Ups) is the seventh studio album by English musician
David Bowie, released on 19 October 1973 by
RCA Records. Devised as a "stop-gap" album to appease his record label, it is a
covers album, featuring songs by British bands from the 1960s that were influential to Bowie as a teenager, including the
Pretty Things,
the Who,
the Yardbirds and
Pink Floyd. The tracks mostly stay true to their original counterparts, albeit performed in
glam rock and
proto-punk styles.