Bowie Heard Them Here First / Various Bowie Heard Them Here First / Various CD

2014 collection that 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 2. I Pity the Fool - Bobby Bland 3. Fill Your Heart - Biff Rose 4. It Ain't Easy - Ron Davies 5. White Light/White Heat - the Velvet Underground 6. Everything's Alright - the Mojos 7. Friday on My Mind - the Easybeats 8. Rosalyn - the Pretty Things 9. Sorrow - the Merseys 10. Where Have All the Good Times Gone - the Kinks 11. Around and Around - Chuck Berry 12. Knock on Wood - Eddie Floyd 13. Amsterdam - Jacques Brel 14. Wild Is the Wind - Johnny Mathis 15. Alabama Song - Lotte Lenya ; the Three Admirals 16. Kingdom Come - Tom Verlaine 17. Criminal World - Metro 18. Don't Look Down - Iggy Pop 19. Dancing in the Street - Martha ; the Vandellas 20. If There Is Something - Roxy Music 21. Nite Flights - the Walker Brothers 22. Cactus - Pixies 23. Pablo Picasso - the Modern Lovers 24. I Took a Trip (On a Gemini Spaceship) - the Legendary Stardust Cowboy