Buscando vídeos del primer Bowie, he topado por pura casualidad en ese chorreo constante que es Youtube, con esta extrañísima versión de “Take My Tip” de los Manish Boys, uno de los primeros grupos de David. Una de sus canciones más jazz, en curiosa relectura “jazz-surf” (¡¡!!) de Kenny Miller. Nótese en la galleta la acreditación como compositor de Bowie (Davie Jones) y la de los “productores” Shel y Talmy (sic)…

Este es el original:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdQr_-bpuiE

Y aquí “Good Morning Girl”, otro de los primitivos cortes jazzy de David, en este caso de abril de 1966 con The Buzz acompañándole, aunque el single sólo está acreditado a David Bowie. Fue la cara B de “Do Anything You Say”: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf1jyXJ7X7E

                                                                                             J.V.

Another early track from the 60s. While he was in The Lower Third. Recently re-released and remastered for Nothing Has Changed in 2014. But there’s nothing better than the original bootleg of this song.

Another single from his time with The Lower Third. Produced authentically in 1965. This one’s a funny one. Months later a musician in France, Michael Polnareff, released a song with particularly familiar riffs called ‘La poupée qui fait non’ and it became a hit. I do wonder..

“Bowie [then ‘Davy Jones’] with the Pretty Things. He is waiting for the ferry to the Isle of Wight, where he supported one of his favourite bands. From left: Graham Rivens (Lower Third bassist), Bowie, Pretty Things’ Phil May and Brian Pendleton, unknown and Phil Lancaster (Lower Third drummer), August 1965.”

© Denis Taylor.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2011/mar/09/david-bowie-in-pictures

Original publicity sticker art for “Davie Jones and the Lower Third”, 1965

Happy birthday to Les Mighall, Lower Third drummer! 10th March 1943.

For Bowie’s second single with The Lower Third, the band lay down three recordings in late November 1965, giving them a few options as what to include, and what could be the lead track. The band had just signed to the Pye label, and were to work with Tony Hatch who was writing for and producing hit acts like Petula Clark and Sandie Shaw.  In the end, the record company rejected Now You’ve Met The London Boys, perhaps because of the drug references, and/or – as Hatch later commented – because the song took ‘too long to get going’ (Rebel Rebel). Accordingly, it was abandoned when the band returned to the studio to finish the recordings on 10 December 1965. As with the Silly Boy Blue demo a few months before, Now You’ve Met The London Boys would fascinate Bowie, and went on to be reworked (as well as slightly retitled) during the music-hall period of his first album (becoming the B-side of the first single to promote David Bowie [1967]). The Lower Third version is sadly considered lost.

Written by David Bowie. Recorded 25 November 1965. Unreleased. Lost.

David Bowie & The Lower Third, circa 1965.

David Bowie (then known as Davy Jones) performing with The Lower Third at the Marquee in September, 1965.

Miei disegni a penna 2020

I drew these David Bowie’s portraits.

Cindy and me 

Cindy 2014

Cindy 04/06/2019

‘Sounds Like Bowie’ 

Vinyl Picture disc

Artist: unknown