starmandb wrote:Pat Rice in Short Shorts wrote:starmandb wrote:Some unreleased Bowie material coming out tomorrow
Baby universal ( an earthling out take)
I can't read (an earthling out take)
Fun( a drum and base take on fame)
Stay 97
Nuts( more drum and bass from the earthling sessions)
The man who sold the world( recorded November 96 and played on the BBC on his 50th birthday in 1997
Very cool.
I am quite surprised that more from the Ziggy/Aladdin Sane era has not come out. Not sure who owns the rights now. What albums did Bowie bonds cover? I was thinking it was from Outside onwards?
The only songs I am aware of from the ziggy/ Aladdin sane era not to have seen the light of day are its gonna rain again( apparently he performed this at Glastonbury in 1971) only one paper left and something happens, most of the other outakes like velvet goldmine , sweet head round and round etc have turned up on other things. But who knows? Would be great if more surfaced. I believe the Bowie estate now own his catalogue, the bonds covered the albums hours, heathen and reality but my understanding is that it covered his back catalogue during that 10 year period as well with an income for him and a definite percentage for the buyer. The timing was good for Bowie but it seemed not so good for the buyer as it came at a time when record sales plummeted.
Thanks.
I recall when he was first playing clubs with the Spiders he covered quite a few songs. My GF saw him in Croydon and he did some T Rex stuff and some other songs from Jacques Brel, Lou Reed and the like. I doubt he recorded many of those sadly, and no bootlegs from that time that I know of.
Yup, I had a client from NYC who worked on that bond sale and he thought it did not pan out that well for investors. Apparently Bowie was relatively broke at the time.