I Scream Like A Laser Baby

I finally got to hear the demo tapes of what eventually became the briefly released and cleaned up album ‘People from bad homes’. Essentially Ava Cherry was David Bowie’s backing singer circa Young Americans and briefly his girlfriend. Bowie promised many people that he’d write, produce and generally work on their careers but often these projects seldom saw the light of day. A remixed version of the demo tapes was released very briefly in 1995 by the remnants of Mainman, Bowie’s estranged management company in the 70’s but with Bowie’s voice removed. Here are sections of I am a laser from 1973 with Scream like a baby afterwards which Bowie listeners might recognise as eventually being recycled as Scream like a baby in 1980’s Scary Monsters And Super Creeps album. Here’s a brief comparison of the two.

Tape Archive: Bowie Interview Feb 1979 Part 3

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At last the final part of this interview from February 13th 1979. Bowie takes questions from phone in callers between music and an ongoing interview with Nicky Horne.

Part 1

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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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Tape Archive:Bowie Star Special 1979 Part 5

From 20th May 1979

Final part of this desert island disc-alike.

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Tape Archive:Bowie Star Special 1979 Part 4

From 20th May 1979

Bowie continues by stating that he doesn’t like what Springsteen was doing at that time and manages to crowbar in a couple of tracks from his then new Lodger album.

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