[arewhyehen]

Has it been discussed that maybe Bowie's death and Dougie Stardust were a complete coincidence and they pulled the album title as a result?

The title for the album was changed because of Bowie's death.

I held this album in my hands today at Rob's house. In my head I was imagining him telling me to keep it. Hahaha...probably one of the coolest and most rare albums I have ever seen in my life..

From what I was told, the new album was supposed to be light hearted and a bit of a parody. That is where the title Dougie Stardust came from, which most people connected to Bowie's Ziggy stardust. That is also where the mullet came from. The original front cover was the same as it is now with the kid and the mullet, but there were two arms catching him. The back cover was a parody of The Clash's London Calling. Same look and colours and design, but with the "Dougie Stardust" instead... With everything this year, Bowie passing, Gord getting sick and everything else, the album was renamed and the artwork was changed to be a bit more serious. When all of this went down, there were already some records in production and shipped out to different suppliers and stores, which probably explains it randomly showing up online all over. Companies would have been getting the update in their system. They all had to be tracked down and were destroyed My heart broke when I heard that. Rob has one of the only copies left in existence... It was something else...