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David Bowie - The Legendary Lost Tapes (1972)

Track listing:
  1. All The Young Dudes (Long Version) David Bowie With Mott the Hoople
  2. It's Alright David Bowie With Mott the Hoople
  3. Henry & The H Bomb (Demo) David Bowie With Mott the Hoople
  4. Sweet Jane David Bowie With Mott the Hoople and Lou Reed
  5. Shakin' all Over David Bowie With Mott the Hoople 2:57
  6. Please Don't Touch David Bowie With Mott the Hoople 2:05
  7. So Sad David Bowie With Mott the Hoople
  8. Han onto Yourself 2:46
  9. Ziggy Stardust 2:56
  10. Changes
  11. Supermen
  12. Five Years
  13. Life On Mars
  14. John I'm Only Dancing 2:25
  15. Moonage Daydream 4:37
  16. Suffragette City
  17. Width Of A Circle
  18. Rock'n' Roll Suicide

Notes

David Bowie with Mott the Hoople, Trident studio sessions in May 1972 1

David Bowie with Mott the Hoople, featruring Lou Reed on guide vocals, Trident studio sessions in May 1972 2

Lou Reed with Mott the Hoople, Trident studio sessions in May 1972 3

Davis Bowie & the Spiders from Mars, Green's Playhouse, Glasgow, UK on 5 January 1973 4
Wow! Amazing stuff! A rumour has been circulating that Lou and David joined Mott at at least one session during the recording of the "All The Young Dudes" album, while they were recording Lou's "Transformer" album. Here is the proof. Bowie sings ALL THE YOUNG DUDES and Lou sings SWEET JANE. They also participate on most of the other songs, playing guitar, sax or singing back up vocals. I had a tape of this session before, and I can't understand why the running order has been changed? The sound quality is excellent, but a little bit distorted (just as on the original tape!). The Glasgow show is remastered, and the sound quality is actually very good! The boring thing is that it isn't complete, and according to the cover the cuts between the songs comes from the the original tape. That isn't true! I have the tape and it doesn't feature any other cuts than the cut between side A and B. I also doubt that ROCK'N'ROLL SUICIDE is from the Glasgow show? I have never heard of any tape that lasts longer than SUFFRAGETTE CITY. Even the songs are roughly cut on the CD, not only the space of time between them! There are two missing songs, and they are LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER / THE JEAN GENIE / THE WIDTH OF A CIRCLE should have come after FIVE YEARS. Anyway, because of the Mott session this is a great disc.