Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
David Bowie
The World Of David Bowie
(Decca, 1970)
Going cheap, a vintage grab bag of the pre-stardom Dame.
Yes, most of the songs are on the first real Bowie LP, and they're all on its deluxe edition released earlier this year. But it's still worth revisiting this budget comp of his Deram-era songs, recorded when manager Ken Pitt thought he was grooming the new Tommy Steele. Decca's The World Of... series, remember, also included such special interest comps as The World Of Kenneth Williams, The World Of Reginald Dixon and The World Of World War One (in 1995, World Of Morrissey paid homage) - and into this starched, unswingingly British milieu come similarly-minded songs like Rubber Band and Little Bombardier, tunes with oboes, tubas and references to 1912, some enunciated Anthony Newley-style and whimsy'd up in maudlin sad-clown-with-Lord-Kitchener-muzzie fashion. Elsewhere there are easier signposts to the later Bowie; music hall jape She's Got Medals depicts a male impersonator deserting from the army, while The London Boys is a queasy rumination on the mid-'60s mod underbelly (remarkably, he was only 19 when he wrote it). The singer re-recorded the song plus this collection's louche cabaret folk tune Let Me Sleep Beside You, the Buddhism-crazed Silly Boy Blue and the impassioned In The Heat Of The Morning for inclusion on the unreleased Toy LP in 2001. Proof that these songs were always more than ways to kill time before the regular hits started piling on in the '70s.
Clive Prior
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 12:03 PM GMT 06/05/2010
Further Listening
David Bowie – Space Oddity (Philips, 1969)
Anthony Newley – The Decca Years (Decca, 2000)
Alan Klein - Well At Least It’s British (Decca, 1964)
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