{"id":480609,"date":"2019-01-08T15:25:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T22:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=776201"},"modified":"2019-01-08T15:25:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T22:25:14","slug":"new-david-bowie-box-set-includes-nine-unreleased-recordings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/new-david-bowie-box-set-includes-nine-unreleased-recordings\/","title":{"rendered":"New David Bowie Box Set Includes Nine Unreleased Recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new box set of seven-inch singles features nine previously-unreleased David Bowie<\/a> demos. The set, called\u00a0Spying Through a Keyhole<\/em> arrives via Parlophone Records this spring to mark the 50th anniversary of Bowie\u2019s 1969 self-titled album, which was later reissued under the name of its famous title-track, Space Oddity<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The nine \u201cnew\u201d demos were recorded during the Space Oddity<\/em> era, and though they were briefly released on streaming services last December, this is the first time they will be available in a physical format.<\/p>\n

The track list for Spying Through a Keyhole<\/em>\u00a0also includes early versions of Bowie tracks like \u201cIn the Heat of the Morning\u201d and \u201cLondon Bye, Ta-Ta,\u201d as well as rarer offerings like \u201cMother Grey\u201d and \u201cLove All Around\u201d (the latter features the lyric from which the new collection gets its title: \u201cI see a pop tune spying through a keyhole from the other room\u201d). Spying Through a Keyhole<\/em>\u00a0also boasts what\u2019s believed to be the first ever recorded demo of \u201cSpace Oddity,\u201d as well as another early version of the song made with Bowie\u2019s early collaborator, John Hutchinson.<\/p>\n

A statement about the release on Bowie\u2019s website<\/a> noted that the audio quality of some of the early demos will not reach studio levels: \u201cThis is partly due to David\u2019s enthusiastic strumming hitting the red on a couple of the tracks, along with the limitations of the original recording equipment and tape degradation. However, the historical importance of these songs and the fact that the selections are from an archive of tracks cleared for release by Bowie, overrides this shortcoming.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spying Through a Keyhole<\/em> marks the latest posthumous Bowie release. Last year, Parlophone teamed with BBC Studios and Glastonbury Festivals to issue the musician\u2019s legendary headlining set<\/a> at Glastonbury 2000. The label also released the box set, Loving the Alien (1983 \u2013 1988)<\/em><\/a>, which followed three other era-specific compilations, Five Years (1969\u20131973)<\/em>, Who Can I Be Now? (1974\u20131976)<\/em><\/a>, and A New Career in a New Town (1977\u20131982)<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Spying Through a Keyhole<\/em> Track List<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. \u201cMother Grey\u201d (demo)
2. \u201cIn The Heat Of The Morning\u201d (demo)
3. \u201cGoodbye 3d (Threepenny) Joe\u201d (demo)
4. \u201cLove All Around\u201d (demo)
5. \u201cLondon Bye, Ta-Ta\u201d (demo)
6. \u201cAngel, Angel, Grubby Face\u201d (demo version 1)
7. \u201cAngel, Angel, Grubby Face\u201d (demo version 2)
8. \u201cSpace Oddity\u201d (demo excerpt)
9. \u201cSpace Oddity\u201d (demo \u2013 alternative lyrics, with John Hutchinson)<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new box set of seven-inch singles features nine previously-unreleased David Bowie demos. The set, called\u00a0Spying Through a Keyhole arrives via Parlophone Records this spring to mark the 50th anniversary of Bowie\u2019s 1969 self-titled album, which was later reissued under the name of its famous title-track, Space Oddity. The nine \u201cnew\u201d demos were recorded during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-480609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 09:34:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}