Recorded 1969-1979 Release date 15 December 1980 | Length 58:17 | |
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Released 15 December 1980 (1980-12-15) Similar David Bowie albums, Rock music albums | ||
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The Best of Bowie is a David Bowie compilation album released in 1980. The cover was based on the 12-inch single sleeve design of Bowie's "Fashion". It made No. 3 in the UK Albums Chart.
Contents
In addition to including the rare 7" edits of "Fame" and "Golden Years", the compilation contains unique edits of "Life on Mars?" and "Diamond Dogs", ostensibly to allow all 16 tracks to fit on one LP. Early copies of the LP had a sticker on the back cover showing the track listing. If the sticker was removed, the original track listing could be seen, showing "Drive-In Saturday" (from Aladdin Sane, 1973) as track 7 in place of the live version of "Breaking Glass", which explains the latter's appearance out of chronological sequence here.
Track listing
All songs written by David Bowie, except where noted.
- "Space Oddity" – 5:07
- "Life on Mars?" (K-tel edit) – 3:34
- "Starman" – 4:07
- "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" – 2:56
- "John, I'm Only Dancing" (Sax version) – 2:37
- "The Jean Genie" – 4:03
- "Breaking Glass" (Live from Stage) (Bowie, Dennis Davis, George Murray) – 3:27
- "Sorrow" (Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein, Richard Gottehrer) – 2:51
- "Diamond Dogs" (K-tel edit) – 4:36
- "Young Americans" – 5:05
- "Fame" (Edit) (Bowie, John Lennon, Carlos Alomar) – 3:25
- "Golden Years" (Edit) – 3:20
- "TVC 15" (Edit) – 3:28
- "Sound and Vision" – 3:00
- ""Heroes"" (Edit) (Bowie, Brian Eno) – 3:26
- "Boys Keep Swinging" (Bowie, Eno) – 3:15
Songs
1Space Oddity
2Life on Mars
3Starman