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A lost tape of David Bowie at the BBC playing live tracks and talking about his musical heritage at has been unearthed and broadcast. Listen below.
Talking to the BBC about the discovery, Bowie's manager Nigel Reeve says it was a "jaw-dropping moment" when he first listened to the rare and historically significant recordings.
Bowie was in the BBC studio to promote his covers album Pin-Ups. He plays five of the covers that he'd been working on, including The Who's I Can't Explain. Introducing the songs, he talks of the feeling in London that "They were our band, the Who."
In other snippets between songs he talks about his formative years going to see bands in the sixties at classic venues such as The Marquee. He talks fondly of going to see Martha and The Vandellas and a spate of other now seminal artists. In his familiar South London drawl, less refined than it is now, he speaks charmingly of going to see "The Floyd with dear old Syd"
Finds like this are rare, but we can only hope that with the moving of the BBC studios more gems like this will be discovered. Reeve explains how fortunate they were to find it, explaining “It was in an old tape vault on 1/4-inch tape with simply the words 'Radio Show' written on it. This is such a rare find."
Below: The many guises of David Bowie
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