David Bowie fans can expected a string of rare and unreleased tracks over the next six weeks under the title, Is It Any Wonder? Out now as a streaming-only digital single is a previously unreleased version of “The Man Who Sold The World,” released in celebration of both Bowie’s January 8th birthday and the 50th anniversary of the writing and recording of the tune. Five more songs will be released on a weekly basis from January 17th on.
The new version of “The Man Who Sold The World” is taken from the nine-track session ChangesNowBowie, recorded for radio and broadcast by the BBC on Bowie’s 50th birthday on January 8th, 1997.
The ChangesNowBowie album will be released in limited quantities on LP and CD for Record Store Day on April 18th, 2020. The cover art for the album will feature “a stunning black and white portrait of Bowie by renowned photographer Albert Watson, taken in New York in 1996.” More details about the album will be announced shortly.
David Bowie revealed that part of his process as an artist was to explore some of the darker corners of the human condition: “Thematically, I've always dealt with isolation, so it's something that triggers me off a bit, 'always makes me interested in a project if it has anything to do with alienation or isolation. I can quietly imagine how it must feel to be isolated, so I have often put myself in circumstances and positions where I am isolated, just so I can write about it.”