Unreleased version of DAVID BOWIE’s 'The Man Who Sold the World'

09 January 2020

On what would have been David Bowie’s 73rd birthday, Parlophone Records has delivered fans the gift of new music. The label has shared a previously unreleased version of “The Man Who Sold the World” off a forthcoming digital EP and Record Store Day LP.

The largely acoustic rendition of the title track from Bowie’s 1970 album comes from the BBC’s ChangesNowBowie sessions.

Recorded in November of 1996 at New York’s Looking Glass Studios, Bowie was joined in studio by Gail Ann Dorsey, Reeves Gabrels, and Mark Plati.

The radio broadcast aired a few months later on the iconic artist’s 50th birthday (January 8th, 1997).