ChangesOneBowie

Infobox Album
Name = ChangesOneBowie
Type = Compilation album
Artist = David Bowie


Released = start_date|1976|5|20
Recorded = 1969-1976
Genre = Rock
Length = 44:14
Label = RCA
Producer =
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:w69hs32ba3mg link]
*Robert Christgau (A) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=bowie link]
*"Rolling Stone" [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6626821/425_changesone link]
Last album = "Station to Station" (1976)
This album = "ChangesOneBowie" (1976)
Next album = "Low" (1977)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = David Bowie Compilation
Type = Compilation
Last album =
This album = "ChangesOneBowie" (1976)
Next album = "The Best of Bowie" (1980)

"ChangesOneBowie" was David Bowie's first widely-selling compilation album. It collected songs from the 1969-1976 period, including the first LP appearance of "John, I'm Only Dancing". A 'sax version' of this song, cut during the "Aladdin Sane" sessions in 1973, appeared on the first 1000 copies of the UK pressing (these can be identified by the lack of RCA logo in the upper-right corner of the cover). Later pressings of "ChangesOne" featured the original version of the single that had been recorded and released in 1972.

Two of the tracks, "Ziggy Stardust" and "Suffragette City", had never been released as singles when "ChangesOneBowie" was issued, though the former had been the B-side of "The Jean Genie" in November 1972 and the latter would be released as an A-side in July 1976 to help promote the compilation.

The cover shot was taken by Tom Kelley, who took the famous nude calendar photographs of Marilyn Monroe on red velvet in 1949.

RCA released "ChangesOneBowie" on CD in the 1980s, but as a Bowie compilation it was replaced by Rykodisc's "Changesbowie" in 1990, on which "Fame" was substituted by the "Fame 90" Gass Mix and "Heroes", "Ashes to Ashes," "Fashion," "Let's Dance," "China Girl," "Modern Love" and "Blue Jean" were added. A 2-LP edition released at the same time had, in addition, "Starman" (following "Space Oddity") "Life on Mars?" (following "The Jean Genie"), and "Sound and Vision" (following "Golden Years").

Track listing

All songs written by David Bowie unless otherwise noted.

ide one

# "Space Oddity" (from "Space Oddity," 1969) – 5:14
# "John, I’m Only Dancing" (from "John, I’m Only Dancing" single, 1972) – 2:43 (Sax Version - 2:41)
# "Changes" (from "Hunky Dory", 1971) – 3:33
# "Ziggy Stardust" (from "Ziggy Stardust", 1972) – 3:13
# "Suffragette City" (from "Ziggy Stardust", 1972) – 3:25
# "The Jean Genie" (from "Aladdin Sane", 1973) – 4:03

ide two

# "Diamond Dogs" (from "Diamond Dogs", 1974) – 5:56
# "Rebel Rebel" (from "Diamond Dogs", 1974) – 4:30
# "Young Americans" (from "Young Americans", 1975) – 5:10
# "Fame" (Bowie, Carlos Alomar, John Lennon) (from the single RCA 2579, 1975) – 3:30
# "Golden Years" (from "Station to Station", 1976) – 3:59

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References

*Roy Carr & Charles Shaar Murray (1981). "Bowie: An Illustrated Record"