David Bowie - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: 1972

This continues my series of BBC recordings for David Bowie. This album deals with 1972, which was his big breakthrough "Ziggy Stardust" year.

This is a very straight forward album. For all the other albums in this series, I've had a mixture of songs from the official release "Bowie at the Beeb" and other sources. But this one is all from "Bowie at the Beeb." He played so many songs for the BBC in 1972 that a bunch of them will go into the next album in this series. That one only has three songs from "Bowie at the Beeb," and continues his BBC performances into 1973.

There's not much else to say here except this is prime Bowie. The songs were all recorded in various BBC studios, so there's no crowd noise, and the sound is excellent. There also aren't any instances of annoying BBC DJs talking over the starts and ends of songs.

This album is 46 minutes long.

01 Hang on to Yourself (David Bowie)
02 Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie)
03 Queen Bitch (David Bowie)
04 I'm Waiting for the Man (David Bowie)
05 Five Years (David Bowie)
06 White Light-White Heat (David Bowie)
07 Moonage Daydream (David Bowie)
08 Suffragette City (David Bowie)
09 Starman (David Bowie)
10 Space Oddity (David Bowie)
11 Changes (David Bowie)
12 Oh, You Pretty Things (David Bowie)

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The photo for the cover art comes from a concert in Santa Monica in October 1972. I like how the lightning makes Bowie look like he's glowing red.