David Bowie announces first in a series of box sets

Five Years 1969-1973 will contain everything Bowie released in that phase of his career

David Bowie has announced the first in a series of career-spanning box sets. Five Years 1969-1963 will contain all the music officially released by Bowie during those years, and will be available on 12 CDs or 13 vinyl records.

For Bowie obsessives, the most exciting element of the boxes will be Re:Call 1, a two-disc compilation of non-album singles, single versions and B-sides. It will contain a previously unreleased single version of All the Madmen, which had been planned for US release before being pulled, as well as the original version of Holy Holy, which was released on single in 1971 but has been unavailable since.

The 2003 stereo remix of of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars will also be part of the collection. It has previously only been released on DVD with the 40th anniversary edition of the album. Five Years 1969-1973 will be released on 25 September.

The box set will feature the albums:
David Bowie (AKA Space Oddity)
The Man Who Sold the World
Hunky Dory
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Aladdin Sane
PinUps
Live Santa Monica ’72
Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture Soundtrack
Re:Call 1 – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (2003 mix)
Re:Call 2

The tracklisting for Re:Call 2 is:
CD1
Space Oddity (original UK mono single edit)
Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud (original UK mono single version)
Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola
The Prettiest Star (original mono single version)
Conversation Piece
Memory of a Free Festival (Part 1)
Memory of a Free Festival (Part 2)
All the Madmen (mono single edit)
Janine
Holy Holy (original mono single version)
Moonage Daydream (the Arnold Corns single version)
Hang on to Yourself (the Arnold Corns single version)

CD 2
Changes (mono single version)
Andy Warhol (mono single version)
Starman (original single mix)
John, I’m Only Dancing (original single version)
The Jean Genie (original single mix)
Drive-in Saturday (German single edit)
Round and Round
John, I’m Only Dancing (sax version)
Time (US single edit)
Amsterdam
Holy Holy (Spiders version)
Velvet Goldmine

Thanks to Guardian Music

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