Bowie At The Beeb

The first official release of many of Bowie's earliest BBC radio performances on shows such as Top Gear, Sounds of the Seventies and In Concert.

Songs (Time)

UK Release

Disc One

Disc Two

Release details: Released by EMI Music, September 25 2000; Catalogue number TOCP-65497 (Japan); Catalogue number 07243 5286292 4 (Germany)
Track details: ¹ David Bowie and the Tony Visconti Orchestra, Top Gear, May 13 1968; ² David Bowie and Junior's Eyes, D.L.T. Show (Dave Less Travis Show), October 20, 1969; ³ David Bowie and the Tony Visconto Trio (aka The Hype), The Sunday Show introduced by John Peel, February 5, 1970; ⁴ David Bowie and The Hype, Sounds of the 70's, March 25, 1970; ⁵ David Bowie and friends, In Concert: John Peel, June 5 1971; ⁶ David Bowie with Mick Ronson, Sounds of the 70's: Bob Harris, September 21, 1971; ⁷ David Bowie and The Spiders From Mars, Sounds of the 70's, January 18, 1972; ⁸ David Bowie and The Spiders From Mars, Sound of the 70's: John Peel, May 16, 1972; ⁹ David Bowie and The Spiders From Mars, Johnnie Walker Lunchtime show, May 22, 1972; ¹⁰ David Bowie and The Spiders From Mars, Sounds of the 70's: Bob Harris, May 23, 1972

Japanese release

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The Japanese release includes a bonus track on Disc 2. According to this web page and Japanese readers, track #2 will be Oh! You Pretty Things, probably from the 1971 Bob Harris show.

Limited Edition

A limited edition the release bundles a third CD containing live tracks from Bowie's BBC Special performance at Broadcasting House, June 27, 2000.

Disc 3

Release details: Released by EMI Music, September 25 2000; Catalogue number 07243 5286292 3 (Germany); Recorded at BBC Broadcasting House, June 27, 2000

4LP Set

A limited edition four LP set was scheduled to be released including two tracks not on the CD version, but as of the end of 2000 it had not appeared..

Promotional 8-track sampler

A disc containing 8 tracks was distributed in late August for promotional purposes.

French Promo CDR

The eight track sampler was also put out in limited release in France. Contributed by ZigDust.

Three CD Promo

The complete promotional version with all tracks from all three discs was distributed by Virgin in the USA. (Scans contributed by Sean D.)

cover

Reviews

Trivia

The initial pressing (estimated at 250,000 copies) of Disc Two erroneously had the same exact recording for the two different Ziggy Stardust tracks. This led to a replacement disc with the single correct track being distributed to all owners of the mispressing (catalogue number BEEBREP2). If you received one of the originally mispressed Disc Twos, then you should send your full mailing address (including country) to EMI's Consumer Information representative Martin Nutley martin.nutley@emimusic.com (put "Bowie At The Beeb" as the subject line of your email). Alternatively you can snail-mail
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UK Consumer Information
EMI Records Group UK & Ireland
43 Brook Green
LONDON
W6 7EF
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Contributed by Einar S.
Digital music firm Music Match made the missing track available for digital download to anyone with an original mispressed copy of the album. Go to the Music Match website for more details.
A plea and comments from Dave Gibbs for more tracks
Oh! You Pretty Things one track French promo from the album
Promotional information direct from the BBC
Cover art is by Guy Peellaert, the Belgian artist who also provided the striking artwork for Diamond Dogs.
US Press Release

This document last updated Thursday, 05-Dec-2002 05:00:56 EST

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