Bowie Heard Them Here First

The latest release in Ace's Heard Them Here First series traces the career of David Bowie via songs he recorded by other writers. Presented in the (approximate) sequence he recorded his interpretations, the collection kicks off with Paul Revere & the Raiders original version of Louie - Go Home , as covered by the 17 year-old Bowie as leader of Davie Jones & the King Bees in 1964, and concludes with I Took A Trip (On A Gemini Spaceship) by maverick Texan outsider musician the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, a song Bowie included on his 2002 album Heathen . While promoting Heathen, Bowie recalled that he had been introduced to the Stardust Cowboy's work when they were with the same record company: [They] gave me a stack of singles by this guy and I thought they were unbelievably atrocious, but in that wonderful way that you couldn t stop listening to them, they were so awful. There are no prizes for guessing from whom Ziggy's surname was borrowed

1 Louie - Go Home - Paul Revere & The Raiders - Paul Revere & The Raiders
2 I Pity The Fool - Bobby Bland - Bobby Bland
3 Fill Your Heart - Biff Rose - Biff Rose
4 It Ain't Easy - Ron Davies - Ron Davies
5 White Light/White Heat - The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
6 Everything's Alright - The Mojos - The Mojos
7 Friday On My Mind - The Easybeats - The Easybeats
8 Rosalyn - The Pretty Things - The Pretty Things
9 Sorrow - The Merseys - The Merseys
10 Where Have All The Good Times Gone - The Kinks - The Kinks
11 Around And Around - Chuck Berry - Chuck Berry
12 Knock On Wood - Eddie Floyd - Eddie Floyd
13 Amsterdam - Jacques Brel - Jacques Brel
14 Wild Is The Wind - Johnny Mathis - Johnny Mathis
15 Alabama Song - Lotte Lenya & The Three Admirals - Lotte Lenya & The Three Admirals
16 Kingdom Come - Tom Verlaine - Tom Verlaine
17 Criminal World - Metro - Metro
18 Don't Look Down - Iggy Pop - Iggy Pop
19 Dancing In The Street - Martha & The Vandellas - Martha & The Vandellas
20 If There Is Something - Roxy Music - Roxy Music
21 Nite Flights - The Walker Brothers - The Walker Brothers
22 Cactus - Pixies - Pixies
23 Pablo Picasso - The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
24 I Took A Trip (On A Gemini Spaceship) - The Legendary Stardust Cowboy - The Legendary Stardust Cowboy