Bowie, David: David Bowie (Space Oddity) (Vinyl LP) Sly & The Family Stone Highlights include the super-poppy 'To

Highlights include the super-poppy 'To Whom it May Concern'

Just before recordings began for his second album which was to be called My Sweetheart The Drunk

in particular

where he lives in a hidden palace in the woods

Bowie, David: David Bowie (Space Oddity) (Vinyl LP) Sly & The Family Stone Highlights include the super-poppy 'ToSpace Oddity was the first record on which David Bowie looked and sounded like the Bowie whom the world has come to know. One glance at the spooky, androgynous face that adorns the record was enough to signal that the Anthony Newley influenced, light pop singer who sang the novelty number 'The Laughing Gnome' a few years earlier was a thing of the past. Leaving behind the mannered, English music hall isms of his initial recordings, Bowie roughened up