1.Starman
2.Changes
3.The Man Who Sold The World
4.The Jean Genie
5.Oh! You Pretty Things
6.Walk On The Wild Side – Lou Reed
7.Soul Love
8.Moonage Daydream
9.Fame
10.Golden Years
11.Lady Stardust
12.Life On Mars?
13.Time
14.All The Young Dudes – Mott The Hoople
15.Ziggy Stardust
16.Quicksand
17.Space Oddity
18.All The Madmen
19.The Bewlay Brothers
20.Satellite Of Love – Lou Reed
21.Cracked Actor
22.Star
23.The Prettiest Star
24.Diamond Dogs
25.Suffragette City
26.Queen Bitch
27.Panic In Detroit
28.Sorrow
29.Lady Grinning Soul
30.Perfect Day – Lou Reed
31.Five Years
32.The Width Of A Circle
33.Sweet Thing
34.Candidate
35.Sweet Thing (Reprise)
36.Where Have All The Good Times Gone
37.Young Americans
38.Hang On To Yourself
39.John I’m Only Dancing
40.Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?)
41.Rebel Rebel
42.Vicious – Lou Reed
43.Drive-In Saturday
44.Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide
45.Memory Of A Free Festival
46.My Death (Live Santa Monica ‘72)
This is a 3 hour 3 minute 53 second podcast featuring 40 tracks that I became intimate with during the 1972-1975 period – the first of which was the ‘Starman’ single in July 1972, the last being ‘Golden Years’ in November 1975, just weeks before I started working as a club DJ. There are, you’ll find, tracks also included from the period 1969-1971, but with the exception of ‘Space Oddity’, these were all first heard in retrospect, Bowie’s earlier albums re-issued in 1972 on the back of the success of ‘The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars’ and ‘Hunky Dory’ that year. I selected 40 tracks by Bowie (41 is you want to add the ‘Sweet Thing (Reprise)’ as separate), but also added 4 from Lou Reed’s ‘Transformer’ album, which Bowie and Mick Ronson produced directly after recording ‘Ziggy Stardust’, and Mott The Hoople’s huge hit from 1972, ‘All The Young Dudes’, written and produced by Bowie. Like his post-’75 releases, his pre-‘69 output doesn’t feature here – as with the title of the final track in terms of release, this podcast, for me, truly represents Bowie’s golden years – the era in which he made the majority of his greatest recordings, whilst being at his most vital as a trailblazing artist.
All tracks written by David Bowie except
6, 20, 30, 42. Lou Reed
9. David Bowie, Carlos Alomar & John Lennon
28. Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein & Richard Gottehrer
36. Ray Davies
46. Jacques Brel (English translation by Mort Shuman)
Compiled by Greg Wilson – January 2016
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