Tape Archive: Up The Hill Backwards
Long time no tape archive material so I had a quick delve & remembered a cassette I was given long ago featuring rough demo versions of songs that would eventually become David Bowie’s Scary Monsters album. So here’s an early version of the song that I partly named this blog after, Up the hill backwards.![]()
If you’re familiar with the album version you’ll notice the different lyrics here, particularly the section with to “Skylab is falling”.
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