An EP of unreleased and rare tracks from David Bowie, entitled ‘David Bowie Is It Any Wonder?’ and the ‘ChangesNowBowie’ sessions are on the way, as confirmed by Parlophone Records. Firstly, is the EP. It features an acoustic version of ‘The Man Who Sold The World’, released today to mark what would have been Bowie’s 73rd birthday, (January 8).
Furthermore, the song was written and recorded five years to the day.
The acoustic version for ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ will feature on both the EP and the ‘ChangesNowBowie’ sessions. You can hear it through Spotify below:
From January 17, the remaining five songs from the ‘David Bowie Is It Any Wonder?’ EP, (the tracklist unconfirmed), will be released weekly.
Now onto the second release from the late icon. The ‘ChangesNowBowie’ sessions were a nine-track acoustic project recorded in 1996. The music was produced in New York during the rehearsals for David’s 50th birthday event at Madison Square Garden.
The sessions will see a limited release on EP and CD for Record Store Day on April 18, 2020. A tracklist, similarly to the EP, has not been confirmed, but it was bootlegged with the tracklist seen below:
1. ‘The Man Who Sold The World’
2. ‘The Supermen’
3. ‘Andy Warhol’
4. ‘Repetition’
5. ‘Lady Stardust’
6. ‘White Light/White Heat’
7. ‘Shopping For Girls’
8. ‘Quicksand’
9. ‘Aladdin Sane’
David Bowie will be honored with a live show at the National Space Centre. Its title is a combination of his classic, and most famous hits, ‘Bowie: Oddity To Mars’. Hosted within the centre’s Sir Patrick Moore Planetarium, the immersive 360 show will feature music from the icon through the years 1969 to 1972. The music will be performed by DAVID LIVE, the UK based five-piece tribute group of Bowie.
The dates for the event are scheduled for this Friday and Saturday (January 10-11). Doors open at 7 pm.
For more information, check out the link here.