David Bowie - Conversation Piece contains twelve
previously unreleased tracks/demos from the period as well as a brand
new mix of the Space Oddity (aka David Bowie) album by long-time Bowie
producer/collaborator Tony Visconti. The new mix of the album now
features the title track of the boxset Conversation Piece restored to
the tracklisting in its initially intended position, before it was
originally dropped due to time constraints of vinyl. Of the 2019 Space
Oddity album mix Visconti says It was so much fun to find hidden gems of
musicianship with more time to mix the second time around, a guitar
twiddle here, a trombone blast there, Marc Bolans voice in a group choir
and more detail in general that we overlooked all those years ago when
the label gave us a week at the most to mix this album. And in the
details you will find 22 year old David Bowie, who would soon take the
world by storm." The 120 page hardback book accompanying the box
features exclusive memorabilia from the personal collection of Davids
former manager, the late Ken Pitt, as well as from the David Bowie
Archive, and includes photos by Ray Stevenson, Vernon Dewhurst, David
Bebbington, Ken Pitt, Alec Byrne, Tony Visconti and Jojanneke Claasen.
The sleeve notes have been written for the release by Bowie experts Mark
Adams, Tris Penna and Kevin Cann along with contributions from Davids
lifelong friend George Underwood, Tony Visconti, Vernon Dewhurst, Dana
Gillespie and John Hutch Hutchinson. The 2019 mix of the Space Oddity
album will also be released separately and individually on CD, standard
digital, 96/24 digital and vinyl. The various vinyl configurations will
be randomly distributed worldwide with a mixture of hand-numbered
labels; numbers 1 to 1969 on silver vinyl numbers and 1970 to 2019 on
gold vinyl, with the remainder being black vinyl.
Disc 1: Home Demos
01. April’s Tooth Of Gold
02. The Reverend Raymond Brown (Attends The Garden Fete On Thatchwick Green)
03. When I’m Five
04. Mother Grey
05. In The Heat Of The Morning
06. Goodbye 3d (Threepenny) Joe
07. Love All Around
08. London Bye, Ta-Ta
09. Angel Angel Grubby Face (Version 1)
10. Angel Angel Grubby Face (Version 2)
11. Animal Farm
12. Space Oddity (Solo Demo Fragment)
13. Space Oddity (Version 1 with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson)
14. Space Oddity (Version 2 with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson)
15. Space Oddity (Version 3 with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson)
16. Lover To The Dawn (with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson)
17. Ching-A-Ling (with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson)
18. An Occasional Dream (with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson)
19. Let Me Sleep Beside You (with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson)
20. Life Is A Circus (with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson)
21. Conversation Piece
22. Jerusalem
23. Hole In The Ground (with George Underwood)
Disc 2: The ‘Mercury’ Demos
01. Space Oddity
02. Janine
03. An Occasional Dream
04. Conversation Piece
05. Ching-A-Ling
06. I’m Not Quite (aka Letter To Hermione)
07. Lover To The Dawn
08. Love Song
09. When I’m Five
10. Life Is A Circus
Disc 3: Conversation Pieces
01. In The Heat Of The Morning (Decca Mono Version)
02. London Bye, Ta-Ta (Decca Alternative Version)
BBC Top Gear Radio Session
with The Tony Visconti Orchestra, Recorded 13th May, 1968
03. In The Heat Of The Morning
04. London Bye, Ta-Ta
05. Karma Man
06. When I’m Five
07. Silly Boy Blue
08. Ching-A-Ling
09. Space Oddity (Morgan Studios Version / AlternativeTake with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson)
10. Space Oddity (U.K. Single Edit)
11. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (Single B-Side / Mono Mix)
12. Janine (Mono Mix)
13. Conversation Piece
BBC Dave Lee Travis Show Radio Session,
Recorded 20th October, 1969
14. Let Me Sleep Beside You
15. Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed
16. Janine
Disc 4: The David Bowie (aka Space Oddity) Album
01. Space Oddity
02. Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed (inc. Don’t Sit Down)
03. Letter To Hermione
04. Cygnet Committee
05. Janine
06. An Occasional Dream
07. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
08. God Knows I’m Good
09. Memory Of A Free Festival
The Extras:
10. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (Single B-Side Stereo Mix)
11. Letter To Hermione (Early Mix)
12. Janine (Early Mix)
13. An Occasional Dream (Early Mix)
14. Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola (Full Length Version)
Disc 5: The Space Oddity Album
01. Space Oddity
02. Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed
03. Letter To Hermione
04. Cygnet Committee
05. Janine
06. An Occasional Dream
07. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
08. God Knows I’m Good
09. Memory Of A Free Festival
The Extras:
10. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (Single Version)
11. Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola