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Friday, January 24, 2025

David Bowie - BBC Sessions, In Concert, Maida Vale Studios, London, UK 2002 | ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST

David Bowie - BBC Sessions, Volume 14: In Concert, Maida Vale Studios, London, Britain, 9-18-2002

Paul he say : "Here's yet another David Bowie BBC album. And even now, I'm still not done, with one more to go.

This album is about an hour long, and there are many cases when the BBC takes a longer concert and edits it down to fit an hour-long time slot. But this isn't such a case. I found a review of this concert that confirms this is the entire show. From that article, I also found out that the concert was done mainly for the BBC radio broadcast, with only about 100 people in the audience.

The concert took place three months after the release of Bowie's album "Heathen," so naturally he played some songs from it. But he also played a couple of rarities, along with the usual classic hits. Most interestingly, he performed "The Bewley Brothers." This song first appeared on his 1971 album "Hunky Dory." But apparently, he'd never performed it in concert before, due to lots of hard to remember lyrics. He did it here with a lyric sheet in hand. According to setlist.fm, this was the first time he'd played it in concert, and he only played it four more times after this. 

I believe everything here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent."

This album is 59 minutes long. 

01 talk by Jonathan Ross
02 Sunday 
03 talk
04 Look Back in Anger
05 talk
06 Cactus
07 talk
08 Survive
09 talk 
10 5.15 The Angels Have Gone 
11 talk
12 Alabama Song [Whisky Bar] 
13 talk
14 Everyone Says 'Hi' 
15 talk 
16 Rebel Rebel 
17 talk
18 The Bewlay Brothers
19 talk 
20 Heathen [The Rays]
21 talk 

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