This looks really cool, a must purchase for me.

From Bowienet:

An occasional dream of mine...

It is with much pleasure that we can exclusively reveal details of the upcoming 40th anniversary two disc edition of the Space Oddity album.

Disc one contains the full original album that first appeared as David Bowie on the Philips label in November 1969 and as Man Of Words, Man Of Music on Mercury in the US.

Disc two contains fifteen tracks including eight previously unreleased versions.

Here's the full breakdown...

[bigred]DAVID BOWIE - Space Oddity 40th Anniversary Edition[/bigred]



CD 1:
01 - Space Oddity (5.14)
02 - Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed (inc. Don't Sit Down) (6.51)
03 - Letter To Hermione (2.32)
04 - Cygnet Committee (9.31)
05 - Janine (3.21)
06 - An Occasional Dream (2.54)
07 - Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (4.46)
08 - God Knows I'm Good (3.17)
09 - Memory Of A Free Festival (7.09)

CD 2:
01 - Space Oddity (demo) (5.10) *
02 - An Occasional Dream (demo) (2.49) *
03 - Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (single B-side with spoken intro) (4.56)
04 - Brian Matthew interviews David/Let Me Sleep Beside You (BBC Radio session D.L.T. Show) (4.45)
05 - Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed (BBC Radio session D.L.T. Show) (3.54) *
06 - Janine (BBC Radio session: D.L.T. Show) (3.02)
07 - London Bye Ta-Ta (stereo version) (3.12)
08 - Prettiest Star (stereo version) (3.12)
09 - Conversation Piece (stereo version) (3.06) *
10 - Memory Of A Free Festival (Part 1) (single A-side) (4.01)
11 - Memory Of A Free Festival (Part 2) (single B-side) (3.30)
12 - Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (alternate album mix) (4.45) *
13 - Memory Of A Free Festival (alternate album mix) (9.22) *
14 - London Bye Ta-Ta (alternate stereo mix) (2.34) *
15 - Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola (full length stereo version) (5.14) *

* Previously unreleased

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Every effort was made to source from original tapes for this project, with close attention to the sound of an original vinyl first pressing for reference.

Don't Sit Down has been restored to its original place, at the end of Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed, and not listed as a separate track. Also original fade out/in lengths and gaps between tracks have been observed.

I will be going in to more detail regarding the tracks on the bonus disc shortly, suffice to say that all the tracks marked with an asterisk truly are previously unreleased.

This means these versions haven't even surfaced on bootleg, excepting the DLT show version of Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed...which now completes the official release of that particular BBC session.

The release will be accompanied by extensive sleeve notes with rare pictures and memorabilia pertaining to the original release.

The Space Oddity 40th Anniversary Edition is due for an October release.

Note: this has been pushed back to November 17th. — Linda

Wow, I can't wait for this. Thanks Geff for posting this.

Rick A.

Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (The acoustic version) is one of my all time fav songs.

This is a great looking CD to get !

Thank you Geff !

You're welcome. Pretty exciting stuff! I love the B-sides of both Free Cloud & Free Fest.

Oh, this is one of my favorite Bowie albums (this and Hunky Dory get more play than many of the others). Very cool news indeed!

I thought the Space Oddity (demo) was on the Sound and Vision box set?

Looking forward to this one! Thanks for the heads-up Geff.

"Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola" is an Italian-language version of "Space Oddity," released as a single in Italy in 1969. I believe this is its first appearance on a legit CD.

According to Bowie.net, a 4 disc Station to Station is on schedule for the first half of next year. Looks like this is a catalogue roll out. Fingers crossed for Hunky Dory to be next. One of these every 6 months or so would be perfect.

I'd buy multi-disc versions of anything up through Scary Monsters.

I'd be interested in Let's Dance as well - I imagine there would be some interesting outakes with Stevie

A FOUR DISC "Station To Station"??? Wow! I'd be all over that!

Sounds great!

Station to Station is my favorite Bowie album, not to mention one of my Top 10 albums of all time by anybody. I don't know how they'd stretch it to 4 CDs, unless it's a lot of live material from the "Thin White Duke" tour--but of course I'd buy one!

I've only seen it on an Italian RCA vinyl LP called "Rare".

I know they've been talking about releasing Nassau 1976 for the last couple years; it would likely be part of the package.

I know their are multiple early versions of Space Oddity; I'm pretty sure I have at least 3. They seem to be saying this is a new unseen demo.

Yes, it is the very first track -- and it is 5:10 exactly.

Good wiki on track 8 of disc 2:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prettiest_Star

An album I don't have.
It won't correspond with the rest of my Bowie's catalogue from the 70's of EMI's 1990 "Sound and Vision" reissues,but this looks very good with the bonus disc.
This too :

Bowie's another artist under-represented in my collection, most likely because of the confusing state of his catalog. All I have is the 2-disc "Ziggy Stardust" set from about seven years ago. I thought it was very well done, although many apparently disagree. But I'd probably buy more Bowie albums that were given the same treatment.

Wow...........