KOOKS recorded by Bowie and guitarist Mick Ronson for the BBC’s Sounds Of The 70s presented by Bob Harris is available from 28th September (are you there yet?) as a download and streaming single. This is a 1st tease of the upcoming Divine Symmetry set. Stay tuned for more details
Hope it's a set more along the lines of Conversation Piece, rather than like Width Of A Circle...
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Posted: 27th Sep 2022, 3:55 pm
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There's plenty to choose from for this era (demos, radio sessions, outtakes, Dana Gillespie, Peter Noone, Arnold Corns) so it has the potential to be very good. We'll see.
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Posted: 27th Sep 2022, 7:49 pm
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*Finally* we're on to the good stuff!
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Gathering info from different sources plus some speculation on my part (has to be Aylesbury due to the setlist, mono and stereo BBC mixes were on PPL etc) I think this will be the tracklist:
Disc 1 01 Tired Of My Life (demo) 02 How Lucky You Are (aka Miss Peculiar) (demo) 03 Shadow Man (demo) 04 Looking For A Friend (demo) 05 Waiting For The Man (San Francisco hotel recording) 06 Quicksand (San Francisco hotel recording) 07 King Of The City (demo) 08 Song For Bob Dylan (demo) 09 Right On Mother (demo) 10 Quicksand (demo) 11 Queen Bitch (demo) 12 Kooks (demo) 13 Amsterdam (demo) 14 Life On Mars? (demo) - Bonus acetate dubs: 15 Changes (demo) 16 Bombers (demo)
Disc 2: - In Concert: John Peel (05-06-71) - Stereo Mix 01 Queen Bitch 02 Bombers 03 The Supermen 04 Looking For A Friend 05 Almost Grown 06 Kooks 07 Song For Bob Dylan 08 Andy Warhol 09 It Ain't Easy
- In Concert: John Peel (05-06-71) - Mono Mix 10 Queen Bitch 11 The Supermen 12 Looking For A Friend 13 Kooks 14 Song For Bob Dylan 15 Andy Warhol 16 It Ain't Easy
Disc 3: - Sounds Of The 70s: Bob Harris (21-09-71) 01 The Supermen 02 Oh! You Pretty Things 03 Eight Line Poem 04 Kooks 05 Fill Your Heart 06 Amsterdam 07 Andy Warhol
- Aylesbury 25-09-71 08 Introduction 09 Fill Your Heart 10 Buzz The Fuzz 11 Space Oddity 12 Amsterdam 13 The Supermen 14 Oh! You Pretty Things 15 Eight Line Poem 16 Changes 17 Song For Bob Dylan 18 Andy Warhol 19 Looking For A Friend 20 Round And Round 21 Waiting For The Man
Disc 4: - Bowpromo mixes 01 Oh! You Pretty Things 02 Eight Line Poem 03 Kooks 04 Queen Bitch 05 Quicksand 06 Bombers – Andy Warhol intro.
- Demo's and early mixes 07 Lightning Frightening (aka The Man) 08 Amsterdam (early mix) 09 Changes (mono single) 10 Andy Warhol (full length mono single) 11 Amsterdam (single b-side mix) 12 Life On Mars? (2016 mix)
- 2021 mixes 13 Changes (2021 alternative mix) 14 Life On Mars? (original ending version) 15 Quicksand (2021 mix – early version) 16 Fill Your Heart (2021 alternative mix) 17 Bombers (2021 alternative mix) 18 Song For Bob Dylan (2021 alternative mix) 19 The Bewlay Brothers (2021 alternative mix)
Disc 5 - BluRay audio: 01 Changes 02 Oh! You Pretty Things 03 Eight Line Poem 04 Life On Mars? 05 Kooks 06 Quicksand 07 Fill Your Heart 08 Andy Warhol 09 Song For Bob Dylan 10 Queen Bitch 11 The Bewlay Brothers 12 Changes (2021 alternative mix) 13 Oh! You Pretty Things (BOWPROMO mix) 14 Eight Line Poem (BOWPROMO mix) 15 Life On Mars? (original ending version) 16 Kooks (BOWPROMO mix) 17 Quicksand (2021 mix – early version) 18 Fill Your Heart (2021 alternative mix) 19 Bombers (2021 alternative mix) 20 Andy Warhol (original mix) 21 Song For Bob Dylan (2021 alternative mix) 22 Queen Bitch (BOWPROMO mix) 23 The Bewlay Brothers (2021 alternative mix)
- Bonus mix: 24 Life On Mars? (2016 mix)
- Sounds Of The 70s: Bob Harris (21-09-71) 25 The Supermen 26 Oh! You Pretty Things 27 Eight Line Poem 28 Kooks 29 Fill Your Heart 30 Amsterdam 31 Andy Warhol
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Looks like there's a 5.1 surround mix on the blu-ray!
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Posted: 28th Sep 2022, 1:02 pm
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Welp, that looks better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
A couple of curious omissions. No Nick King All Stars tracks by the looks of things, and wasn't there also an acetate demo of Oh You Pretty Things?
Intrigued by King of the City, had assumed that was an early Suffragette City and it looks like all the other demos of Ziggy songs are being held back.
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Not a bad collection at all! I don't really think the world needs new mixes from Ken Scott, especially as the original sounds so wonderful, but the rest of the material is very welcome indeed.
Has anything been cut from the Aylesbury show? I'm surprised this whole show fits on a cd with the BBC session, but I don't have access to my old audience copy atm. I'm assuming this will be an upgraded source too?
Shame about Rupert The Riley being missed off too, that's rather good fun.
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Posted: 28th Sep 2022, 1:46 pm
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I can't wait to buy this box set, it's worth every penny, the best so far. I was surprised by the absence of 4 songs that were on the 74108 list, King of the City demo 2, We Should be on by now, Rupert the Riley and Get it on, but even so this time it's a release worthy of pleasing all kinds of fans, including demanding guys like me. As for Glastonbury 71 I already knew it wouldn't be released, so it was no surprise, as for King of the City I believe it's an old version of Eight Line Poem
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maarten wrote:
Amazon.ca has the link up for a 4CD+ BluRay (nov release) and a 1LP (feb);
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Really pleased with the set, all we could hope for I think. The notebook looks great as well!
Some notes and answers to the questions above:
- It looks like Queen Bitch is missing from Aylesbury (due to time constraints maybe?) - No 5.1, with the exception of Life On Mars 2016 mix - I think the other PPL tracks (King Of The City Version 2, Get it On, We Should Be On By Now) could be held back for Ziggy / Aladdin boxes, as those seem to be early titles for Suffragette City, Hang On To Yourself and Time respectively) - Bowie disliked Rupert The Riley, so I guess that was blocked from release on his request. - I had hoped for a '71 version of Shadow Man (see here), but there's no * next to it, indicating it's previously released, so I guess not. - There were more tracks on the San Francisco hotel tape (Moonage Daydream instr, Oh You Pretty Things, Hole In The Ground, So Long Sixties). There could be all kinds of reasons they aren't featured of course - incomplete takes, bad quality etc.
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Posted: 28th Sep 2022, 4:43 pm
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I was remembering, on the ppl site there is also Oh You Pretty Things demo version, this one I didn't understand why it was left in the vault
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Posted: 28th Sep 2022, 7:51 pm
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I'd hoped for the Glastonbury set, even in its incomplete form...
