David Bowie

David Bowie - Bowie at Beeb: Best of BBC Radio 68-72 [LIVE] [BOX SET] - 2004 - Virgin Records Us

This compilation is a unique way to view the rapid succession of stylistic changes the mercurial David Bowie went through between the years 1968 and 1972. During that relatively brief span of time, Bowie went through more phases than most artists experience in their entire careers, and it's all catalogued on these live-in-the-studio recordings originally made for BBC broadcast. Things start off innocently enough, with a somewhat benign Bowie delivering '68-vintage baroque pop over orchestral backing. Quickly enough, the rock quotient increases, and Bowie begins delivering more barbed lyrical observations over a grittier sound. Bowie's ascendancy to superstardom is represented via cuts from the ZIGGY STARDUST era; here the listener is given a front-row seat for the virtual invention of glam-rock. There are many interesting tidbits throughout, including fascinating covers of Jacques Brel and the Velvet Underground, both key Bowie influences. © 1996 - 2007 CD Universe

DISC 1:

1. In The Heat Of The Morning
2. London Bye Ta Ta
3. Karma Man
4. Silly Boy Blue
5. Let Me Sleep Beside You
6. Janine
7. Amsterdam
8. God Knows I'm Good
9. Width Of A Circle, The
10. Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed
11. Cygnet Committee
12. Memory Of A Free Festival
13. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
14. Bombers
15. Looking For A Friend
16. Almost Grown
17. Kooks
18. It Ain't Easy

DISC 2:

1. Supermen, The
2. Eight Line Poem
3. Hang On To Yourself
4. Ziggy Stardust
5. Queen Bitch
6. Waiting For The Man
7. Five Years
8. White Light/White Heat
9. Moonage Daydream
10. Hang On To Yourself
11. Suffragette City
12. Ziggy Stardust
13. Starman
14. Space Oddity
15. Changes
16. Oh! You Pretty Things
17. Andy Warhol
18. Lady Stardust
19. Rock 'N' Roll Suicide

PERSONNEL

David Bowie - vocals, various instruments
John McLaughlin
John Lodge - bass
Mick Ronson - vocals, guitar, bass
Tim Renwick - guitar
Mike Garson - piano, keyboards
Herbie Flowers
Earl Slick - guitar
Trevor Bolder - bass, background vocals
Tony Visconti - background vocals
Sterling Campbell - drums
Dana Gillespie
Mark Plati - guitar, bass
Holly Palmer - percussion, background vocals
Gail Ann Dorsey - vocals, guitar, bass
John Cambridge - drums
Mick Wayne
Emm Gryner - keyboards, background vocals
George Underwood - vocals
Woody Woodmansey - drums
Alan Hawkshaw - keyboards