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Originally Posted by radarmaker
His early Vocalion & Parlophone singles were released as Davy Jones, but everything from '66 onwards (including the first LP) carried the Bowie name: http://www.teenagewildlife.com/Albums/DB/Title.html
Judging by what I've heard, most of the 60's stuff is pretty disposable, but there's a couple of stray gems in there... |
Yes, the album was called "David Bowie", but many of the songs on it were single under his old name first.
If you think the '60s material is disposable based upon what you "heard" you are really missing out, as the songs on Space Oddity were all '60s songs and there is some true brilliance on there besides the hit title track ("Cygnet Committee", "Memory of a Free Festival", "Wild-eyed Boy from Freecloud"). Coupled with the fact that over half of the first record is at least notably good, I'd say he was well on his way to doing major work in the '60s though he still had the mod meets hippy-folk image and all. In a way there is something very alluring to this less calculated more innocent side of him.