David Bowie Clareville Grove Demos
- Format: 3x 7" singles
- Condition: New, in original packaging
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Label: parlophone
- Year of publication: 2019
- Special features: Box set
Three 7-inch vinyl singles with previously unreleased recordings by David Bowie in one box!
Following the four-singles box "Spying Through A Keyhole", which will be released in April, Parlophone will continue the series of unreleased David Bowie demos with the 3x7 inch singles box Clareville Grove Demos. For the 50th On the anniversary of his first big hit "Space Oddity", the box is released with a total of six home demos, four of which have remained unreleased. The box with the three singles documents another stage of Bowie's early journey to superstardom and shows his development as an artist and songwriter.
Recorded in January 1969 at David's flat in London's Clareville Grove, the straight-to-tape demo session features David in a duo with John "Hutch" Hutchinson, following the dissolution of the Feathers Trio, which had also included David's then-girlfriend Hermione Farthingale.
The photograph on the front of the box and the print inside the box are by David's then manager Ken Pitt and were taken in the flat in Clareville Grove that David shared with Hermione. David's short haircut was a result of his film role in "The Virgin Soldiers" and is reminiscent of his look during the "Berlin Era" ten years later.
As with the vinyl single box "Spying Through A Keyhole", every single here was designed the way David had sent his demos to record companies and publicists: with handwritten song titles on EMIDISC acetate labels. All singles are mono and played at 45 RPM.
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