The Best of Bowie

Infobox Album
Name = The Best of Bowie
Artist = David Bowie


Type = compilation
Released = start date|1980|12|15
Recorded = 1969-1979
Genre = Rock
Length = 58:17
Label = K-tel
Producer = David Bowie, Gus Dudgeon, Ken Scott, Tony Visconti, Harry Maslin
Reviews =
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = David Bowie Compilation
Type = Compilation
Last album = "ChangesOneBowie" (1976)
This album = "The Best of Bowie" (1980)
Next album = "ChangesTwoBowie" (1981)

"The Best of Bowie" is a David Bowie compilation album released in 1980. In addition to including the rare 7" edits of "Fame" and "Golden Years", the compilation contains unique edits of "Life on Mars?" and "Diamond Dogs", ostensibly to allow all 16 tracks to fit on one LP. The cover was based on the 12-inch single sleeve design of Bowie's "Fashion". [Roy Carr & Charles Shaar Murray (1981). "Bowie: An Illustrated Record": pp.114-115] It made #3 in the UK Albums Chart.

Track listing

All songs written by David Bowie, except where noted.

ide 1

#"Space Oddity" – 5:07
#"Life on Mars?" (K-tel edit) – 3:34
#"Starman" – 4:07
#"Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" – 2:56
#"John, I'm Only Dancing" (Sax version) – 2:37
#"The Jean Genie" – 4:03
#"Breaking Glass" (Live from "Stage") (Bowie, Dennis Davis, George Murray) – 3:27
#"Sorrow" (Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein, Richard Gottehrer) – 2:51

ide 2

#"Diamond Dogs' (K-tel edit) – 4:36
#"Young Americans" – 5:05
#"Fame" (Edit) (Bowie, John Lennon, Carlos Alomar) – 3:25
#"Golden Years" (Edit) – 3:20
#"TVC 15" (Edit) – 3:28
#"Sound and Vision"– 3:00
#"Heroes" (Edit) (Bowie, Brian Eno) – 3:26
#"Boys Keep Swinging" (Bowie, Eno) – 3:15

Charts

Album

Notes