Conversation Piece

CD1 HOME DEMOS

1. April’s Tooth Of Gold
2. The Reverend Raymond Brown (Attends the Garden Fête on Thatchwick Green)
3. When I’m Five
4. Mother Grey 
5. In The Heat Of The Morning
6. Goodbye 3d (Threepenny) Joe
7. Love All Around
8. London Bye, Ta-Ta
9. Angel Angel Grubby Face (version 1)
10. Angel Angel Grubby Face (version 2)
11. Animal Farm
12. Space Oddity (solo demo fragment)
13. Space Oddity (version 1) with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson
14. Space Oddity (version 2) with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson
15. Space Oddity (version 3) with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson
16. Lover To The Dawn with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson
17. Ching-a-Ling with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson
18. An Occasional Dream with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson
19. Let Me Sleep Beside You with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson
20. Life Is A Circus with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson
21. Conversation Piece
22. Jerusalem
23. Hole In The Ground with George Underwood

CD2 THE MERCURY DEMOS (WITH JOHN HUTCH HUTCHINSON) 

1. Space Oddity
2. Janine
3. An Occasional Dream
4. Conversation Piece
5. Ching-a-Ling
6. I’m Not Quite (aka Letter To Hermione)
7. Lover To The Dawn
8. Love Song
9. When I’m Five
10. Life Is A Circus

CD3 CONVERSATION PIECES (MONO)

1. In The Heat Of The Morning (Decca mono version)
2. London Bye, Ta-Ta (Decca alternative version)
3. In The Heat Of The Morning
4. London Bye, Ta-Ta
5. Karma Man
6. When I’m Five
7. Silly Boy Blue
8. Ching-a-Ling
9. Space Oddity (Morgan Studios version – alternative take) with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson 
10. Space Oddity (U.K. single edit)
11. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (single B-side – mono mix)
12. Janine (mono mix)
13. Conversation Piece
14.  Let Me Sleep Beside You
15. Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed
16. Janine

CD4 1969 STEREO MIXES 

1. Space Oddity
2. Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed (inc. Don’t Sit Down)
3. Letter To Hermione
4. Cygnet Committee
5. Janine
6. An Occasional Dream
7. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
8. God Knows I'm Good
9. Memory Of A Free Festival
10. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (single B-side stereo mix)
11. Letter To Hermione (early mix)
12. Janine (early mix)
13. An Occasional Dream (early mix)
14. Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola (full length version)

CD5 2019 MIXES

1. Space Oddity
2. Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed
3. Letter To Hermione
4. Cygnet Committee
5. Janine
6. An Occasional Dream
7. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
8. Conversation Piece
9. God Knows I'm Good
10. Memory Of A Free Festival
11. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (single version)
12. Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola

Parlophone Records is proud to announce DAVID BOWIE CONVERSATION PIECE, a five CD box set and digital equivalent tracking David’s early development throughout 1968 and 1969, via his home demos, BBC radio sessions, studio recordings with guitarist John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson and the experimental music and mime group, Feathers. The collection also celebrates the 50th anniversaries of the release of the ‘Space Oddity’ single and David’s second album, David Bowie (aka Space Oddity).

DAVID BOWIE CONVERSATION PIECE contains twelve previously unreleased tracks/demos from the period as well as a brand new mix of the Space Oddity (aka David Bowie) album by longtime Bowie producer/collaborator Tony Visconti. 

The new mix of the album now features the title track of the boxset ‘Conversation Piece’ restored to the tracklisting in its initially intended position before it was originally dropped due to time constraints of vinyl.