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Space Oddity

His second album, released as David Bowie and retitled for its 1972 reissue, built around the astronaut single.
David Bowie, 1969

Released
14 November 1969
Recorded
June to October 1969
Studio
Trident Studios, London
Label
Philips
Producer
Tony Visconti, Gus Dudgeon
Length
45:28

Visconti produced most of the record, while Gus Dudgeon produced the title song. RCA reissued it as Space Oddity on 10 November 1972, and that version reached number 17 in the UK. Bowie described it in 2000 as kind of iffy. It includes the ten-minute Cygnet Committee and Memory of a Free Festival.

Track listing

  1. Space Oddity5:13
  2. Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed6:09
  3. Don't Sit Down0:39
  4. Letter to Hermione2:30
  5. Cygnet Committee9:22
  6. Janine3:22
  7. An Occasional Dream2:54
  8. Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud4:46
  9. God Knows I'm Good3:17
  10. Memory of a Free Festival7:06

More from David Bowie

Hunky Dory (1971), The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), Aladdin Sane (1973), Diamond Dogs (1974), Young Americans (1975), Station to Station (1976), Low (1977), "Heroes" (1977), Lodger (1979), Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980), Let's Dance (1983), Heathen (2002), The Next Day (2013), Blackstar (2016)

Sources

  1. David Bowie (1969 album), Wikipedia
  2. David Bowie discography, Wikipedia