In July 1973 David Bowie announces he will retire, meaning retire the character Ziggy Stardust but purposely not making that distinction clear. Records one more album with The Spiders of Mars, a collection of covers and then fires everybody, so to redirect his career towards the next thing. His intention was to make an album and tour based on George Orwell’s book 1984 but could not get the rights from his widow. The album Diamond Dogs was what remains from those plans. Bowie fires his manager once he discovers that he was financially ruined. Hires a new manager; a woman, something rare and unheard of among the big names of rock n roll. Bowie then proceeds to tour the US wearing a suit and short hair, a very sober contrast from the outrageousness of Ziggy Stardust just a year before. Musically, Bowie is slowly pending towards blue eyed soul, tendency rewarded with the fairly successful album Young Americans. In the process, he creates his next alter-ego character. Partially based on the alien from another planet stuck on Earth, a character that he played in the film ‘The Man Who Fell To Earth’, his new persona, The Thin White Duke is an alien citizen stuck in America but dreaming of returning one day to his homeland in England.
By 1977, Bowie recognizes that his cocaine addiction has taken over his life and after two known overdoses, has visibly jeopardized his health. As a means to resolve this issue, he leaves Los Angeles moving first to Switzerland and then to West Berlin, Germany. Along the way he reconnects with Iggy Pop who himself is recovering from his past addiction problems and begin working together. Bowie will also hook up with Brian Eno who would produce his next few albums; considered by most as his most experimental work.
Bowie tours America in 1977 unassumingly as the keyboard player in Iggy Pops band and then in 1978 focuses once again on his own career touring with his new hired band. Staying very active, in between recording albums and touring, he finds time to appear in two films, ‘Just A Gigolo’ as an actor; and ‘Christiane F. ā We Children From Bahnhof Zoo’ making a cameo as himself on stage. He also appears singing on a special for BBC called ‘Bertolt Brecht’s Baal’, which RCA later would release as an excellent EP with Bowie’s recordings; narrates Prokofiev’s ‘Peter and the Wolf’ for a children’s record; and appears on American Television for a Christmas special singing duet with Bing Crosby. By the end of 1982 his contract with RCA is over and he signs with EMI, embarking thus in a whole new phase in his career.
Disk Title: The David Bowie Compilation ā Volume 2
CD1
101 – Speed Of Life (1977)
102 – Sweet Thing – Candidate – Sweet Thing Reprise (1974)
103 – Rebel Rebel (1974)
104 – Station To Station (1976)
105 – It’s No Game (part 2) (1980)
106 – Yassassin (1979)
107 – Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me (1974)
108 – TVC15 (1976)
109 – Heroes (1977)
110 – Word On A Wing (1976)
111 – Fame (1975)
112 – 1984 (1974)
113 – Warszawa (1977)
114 – Young Americans (1975)
115 – Red Sails (1979)
Total Time: 01:19:32
CD2
201 – It’s No Game (Part 1) (1980)
202 – Look Back In Anger (1979)
203 – Stay (1976)
204 – Because You’re Young (1980)
205 – Sound And Vision (1977)
206 – Golden Years (1976)
207 – Boys Keep Swinging (1979)
208 – Breaking Glass (1977)
209 – Ashes To Ashes (1980)
210 – Move On (1979)
211 – Be My Wife (1977)
212 – D.J. (1979)
213 – Fashion (1980)
214 – Win (1975)
215 – Fantastic Voyage (1979)
216 – Up The Hill Backwards (1980)
217 – African Night Flight (1979)
218 – The Dirty Song (1982)
219 – Always Crashing In The Same Car (1977)
220 – Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (1980)
221 – Wild Is The Wind (1976)
Total Time: 01:19:36
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