David Bowie - BBC Sessions

Title: BBC Sessions Artist: David Bowie Release Date: 11/28/2000 Label: EMI Album Type(s): Greatest Hits, lyrics/libretto, Contains explicit content UPCs: 4988006785212, 4988006786080, 766486351325 Genre: Rock Styles: Singer/Songwriter, Hard Rock, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Glam Rock, Pop/Rock, Proto-Punk, Blue-Eyed Soul, Experimental Rock, Album Rock, Dance-Rock Moods: Brooding, Clinical, Eccentric, Eerie, Stylish, Bravado, Cerebral, Complex, Detached, Dramatic, Elegant, Enigmatic, Exciting, Literate, Lush, Nocturnal, Playful, Provocative, Quirky, Rebellious, Sophisticated, Swaggering, Tense/Anxious, Theatrical, Urgent, Wry, Campy, Hypnotic, Intense, Ironic, Sexy, Yearning, Outrageous, Austere, Elaborate, Refined/Mannered Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 4 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 3

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. The Width of a Circle [Demo Version][Version]
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

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

1. Wild Is the Wind
2. Ashes to Ashes
3. Seven
4. This Is Not America
5. Absolute Beginners
6. Always Crashing in the Same Car
7. Survive
8. Little Wonder
9. The Man Who Sold the World
10. Fame
11. Stay
12. Hallo Spaceboy
13. Cracked Actor
14. I'm Afraid of Americans
15. Let's Dance

Year Type Label Catalog # 2000 CD EMI 5212

No other editions were found for this album.

After a couple of false starts earlier in the decade, a full-scale roundup of David Bowie's late-'60s/early-'70s sessions for the BBC finally emerged, to both thrill and disappoint the army of collectors who'd been waiting impatiently for its arrival. The thrill was delivered by the one-stop ability to pick up material that had hitherto been available only spread across a plethora of bootlegs and unauthorized releases, laboring beneath a host of misdirected sleeve notes and attributions. Radically more exciting takes of most of the Ziggy Stardust album are included here, together with swathes of the albums that came before it, and a pair of Velvet Underground covers that have never seen release in any other forum: "Waiting for the Man" and "White Light/White Heat." For those reasons alone, BBC Sessions ranks among the most important and enjoyable Bowie archival releases ever. The disappointment, meanwhile, lies in the fact that the sessions are spread across just two of the collection's three discs, meaning that a host of further performances are sacrificed. Several of these simply repeat songs performed elsewhere, of course, but there are a number of unique renditions that, again, the bootleg world long ago got its hands on. In their stead, listeners receive a bonus disc recounting what was then Bowie's most recent BBC performance, an hourlong excerpt from a June 2000 concert that brought the story up to date with some of his most impassioned performances since, indeed, the golden age spread across the first pair of discs. One point for completist collectors: early pressings of the U.K. disc inadvertently included two identical performances of "Ziggy Stardust," from January 1972, instead of an additional version taped in May. Rushing to correct the error, a one-song CD of the missing song was produced for any purchaser who asked for one; subsequent pressings restored the intended track. ~ Dave Thompson, All Music Guide

Name Credits Alan Harris Producer Alan Hawkshaw Keyboards Barry Morgan Drums Bernie Andrews Producer Chris Lycett Assistant, Sound Balancer Dana Gillespie Vocals David Bowie Main Performer, Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards Earl Slick Guitar Emm Gryner Keyboards, Vocals (Background) Gail Ann Dorsey Guitar, Bass, Vocals Geoffrey Alexander Vocals George Underwood Vocals Herbie Flowers Bass Holly Palmer Vocals (Background), Percussion Jeff Griffin Producer John Cambridge Drums John Etchells Assistant John Lodge Bass John McLaughlin Guitar Mark Plati Mixing, Guitar, Musical Director, Bass Mick "Woody" Woodmansey Drums Mick Ronson Bass, Vocals, Guitar Mick Wayne Guitar Mike Garson Keyboards, Piano Nick Gomm Producer, Engineer Pete Ritzema Engineer, Producer Rex Ray Design Roger Pusey Producer Sterling Campbell Drums The Hype Performer The Tony Visconti Trio Performer Tim Renwick Guitar (Rhythm) Tony Visconti Bass, Musician, Vocals (Background) Trevor Bolder Bass