Track Listing
1. Space Oddity
2. Changes
3. Starman
4. Ziggy Stardust
5. Suffragette City
6. John, I'm Only Dancing
7. Jean Genie, The
8. Drive-in Saturday
9. Life on Mars?
10. Sorrow
11. Rebel Rebel
12. Rock & Roll Suicide
13. Diamond Dogs
14. Knock on Wood
15. Young Americans
16. Fame
17. Golden Years
18. Tvc 15
19. Sound & Vision
20. Heroes
21. Beauty & The Beast
22. Boys Keep Swinging
23. D.J.
24. Alabama Song
25. Ashes to Ashes
26. Fashion
27. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
28. Under Pressure
29. Wild Is the Wind
30. Let's Dance
31. China Girl
32. Modern Love
33. Blue Jean
34. This Is Not America
35. Dancing in the Street
36. Absolute Beginners
37. Day-in Day-Out
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Adrian Belew, Bing Crosby, Brian Eno, John Lennon, Luther Vandross, Mick Jagger, Queen, Rick Wakeman, Stevie Ray Vaughan | | Distributor: | Phantom Import Distributi | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
The CD single of "Peace On Earth" and "Little Drummer Boy" with Bing Crosby is included in a limited edition version of BOWIE: THE SINGLES 1969-1993 which is no longer available.
Personnel includes: David Bowie (vocals, various instruments); Warren Peace, Mick Jagger, Bing Crosby (vocals); Robert Fripp, Mick Ronson, Carlos Alomar, Stevie Ray Vaughan (guitar); John Lennon (guitar, vocals); Adrian Belew (mandolin, guitar); Brian Eno (guitar, keyboards, synthesizer); Tony Visconti (mandolin, guitar, background vocals); Edward Myers (cello); David Sanborn (saxophone); Rick Wakeman, Michael Garson, Roy Bittan (piano); Roy Young (piano, organ); Andy Clark (synthesizer); Bernard Edwards, Willie Weeks, George Murray (bass); Aynsley Dunbar (drums); Dennis Davis (drums, percussion); Luther Vandross, Connie Petruk, Frank Simms, Dennis Collins (background vocals).
Queen: Freddie Mercury (vocals); Brian May (guitar); John Deacon (bass); Roger Taylor (drums).
Producers include: David Bowie, Gus Dudgeon, Ken Scott, Tony Visconti, Harry Maslin,
Engineers include: David Bowie, Keith Harwood, Harry Maslin, Colin Thurston, Bob Clearmountain.
Compilation producer: Jeff Rougvie.
Dutch edition.
Having tried on and discarded more musical personas than Shirley MacLaine has past lives, David Bowie's career has taken a number of fascinating twists and turns. THE SINGLES gives a quick but thorough overview of Bowie's path over the span of 24 years. Coinciding with the year man first walked on the moon, the melancholic "Space Oddity" was his opening salvo on the charts that would find Bowie bouncing around from being an alien ("Ziggy Stardust") to becoming the Thin White Duke ("The Jean Genie"), flirting with blue-eyed soul ("Young Americans") and stripping down his musical persona during a self-imposed exile in Berlin ("Heroes.")
By the time the late '70s were coming to a close, Bowie had written a sequel to "Space Oddity" ("Ashes To Ashes") and dabbled in punk/funk ("Fashion.") In 1983 Bowie teamed with Nile Rodgers on LETS DANCE, a poppy soul/dance package that proved to Bowie's most successful outing ever. Also included in this package is a bonus disc of the surreal duet between Bing Crosby and David Bowie of the Christmas classic "Little Drummer Boy."
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