Clareville Grove Demos Explained

Clareville Grove Demos
Type:Box set
Artist:David Bowie
Border:yes
Recorded:January 1969
Studio:Bowie's Apartment, Clareville Grove, Kensington, London
Label:Parlophone
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Clareville Grove Demos is a box set EP by English musician David Bowie, released posthumously in May 2019. The set includes three 7" vinyl records containing six songs performed by Bowie with his friend John Hutchinson in early 1969. All songs in the collection are presented in mono, demo form. In November, all songs were released on CD on the Conversation Piece box set.

Background

Like Spying Through a Keyhole, the box set was released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Bowie's 1969 album David Bowie. Two of the six demos, "Space Oddity" and "An Occasional Dream", had already been released in 2009 on the 40th anniversary reissue of that album.[1]

The material was recorded in January 1969 to promote Bowie & Hutch to potential record labels, as David had just been dropped by Deram.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Clareville Grove Demos box due . davidbowie.com . 27 July 2019 . 12 February 2019.
  2. [David Bowie]