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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Space Oddity
2. Changes
3. Oh, You Pretty Things
4. Life on Mars?
5. Ziggy Stardust
6. Starman
7. John, I'm Only Dancing
8. Suffragette City
9. Jean Genie, The
10. Sorrow
11. Drive-in Saturday
12. Diamond Dogs
13. Rebel Rebel
14. Young Americans
15. Fame - (with John Lennon)
16. Golden Years
17. Tvc 15
18. Be My Wife
19. Sound & Vision
20. Beauty & The Beast
DISC 2:
1. Heroes
2. Boys Keep Swinging
3. DJ
4. Look Back in Anger
5. Ashes to Ashes
6. Fashion
7. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
8. Under Pressure - (with Queen)
9. Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
10. Let's Dance
11. China Girl
12. Modern Love
13. Blue Jean
14. Loving the Alien
15. Dancing in the Street - (with Mick Jagger)
16. Absolute Beginners
17. Day-in Day-Out
18. Never Let Me Down
19. Jump They Say
20. Peace on Earth - (with Bing Crosby)
21. Little Drummer Boy - (with Bing Crosby)
Album Notes
The CD single of "Peace On Earth" and "Little Drummer Boy" with Bing Crosby is included in a limited edition version of BOWIE: THE SINGLES 1969-1993 which is no longer available.
Personnel includes: David Bowie (vocals, various instruments); Warren Peace, Mick Jagger, Bing Crosby (vocals); Robert Fripp, Mick Ronson, Carlos Alomar, Stevie Ray Vaughan (guitar); John Lennon (guitar, vocals); Adrian Belew (mandolin, guitar); Brian Eno (guitar, keyboards, synthesizer); Tony Visconti (mandolin, guitar, background vocals); Edward Myers (cello); David Sanborn (saxophone); Rick Wakeman, Michael Garson, Roy Bittan (piano); Roy Young (piano, organ); Andy Clark (synthesizer); Bernard Edwards, Willie Weeks, George Murray (bass); Aynsley Dunbar (drums); Dennis Davis (drums, percussion); Luther Vandross, Connie Petruk, Frank Simms, Dennis Collins (background vocals).
Queen: Freddie Mercury (vocals); Brian May (guitar); John Deacon (bass); Roger Taylor (drums).
Producers include: David Bowie, Gus Dudgeon, Ken Scott, Tony Visconti, Harry Maslin,
Engineers include: David Bowie, Keith Harwood, Harry Maslin, Colin Thurston, Bob Clearmountain.
Compilation producer: Jeff Rougvie.
Having tried on and discarded more musical personas than Shirley MacLaine has past lives, David Bowie's career has taken a number of fascinating twists and turns. THE SINGLES gives a quick but thorough overview of Bowie's path over the span of 24 years. Coinciding with the year man first walked on the moon, the melancholic "Space Oddity" was his opening salvo on the charts that would find Bowie bouncing around from being an alien ("Ziggy Stardust") to becoming the Thin White Duke ("The Jean Genie"), flirting with blue-eyed soul ("Young Americans") and stripping down his musical persona during a self-imposed exile in Berlin ("Heroes.")
By the time the late '70s were coming to a close, Bowie had written a sequel to "Space Oddity" ("Ashes To Ashes") and dabbled in punk/funk ("Fashion.") In 1983 Bowie teamed with Nile Rodgers on LETS DANCE, a poppy soul/dance package that proved to Bowie's most successful outing ever. Also included in this package is a bonus disc of the surreal duet between Bing Crosby and David Bowie of the Christmas classic "Little Drummer Boy."
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