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Recording: Five Years, It’s Gonna Rain Again, Shadow Man

Joe — Mon, 15 Nov 1971 12:00:59 +0000

The fifth recording session for David Bowie’s The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars took place at London’s Trident Studios on Monday 15 November 1971. Bowie and the Spiders From Mars recorded ‘Five Years’, ‘It’s Gonna Rain Again’, and ‘Shadow Man’. ‘Five Years’ became the opening track on the album. The other two songs remained unreleased, although Bowie re-recorded ‘Shadow Man’ years later for the Toy album.

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Recording: Moonage Daydream, Soul Love, The Supermen, Lady Stardust

Joe — Fri, 12 Nov 1971 12:00:52 +0000

The fourth recording session for David Bowie’s The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars took place at London’s Trident Studios on 12 November 1971. Bowie and the Spiders From Mars recorded two takes of ‘Moonage Daydream’, one of ‘Soul Love’, two of ‘The Supermen’, and two of ‘Lady Stardust’. The basics took about four or five days and were virtually the same for every track. It was only the nuances in each song that would vary. What’s more, nothing was recorded 100% live. There were overdubs on every track, and as is usually the case,

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Recording: Ziggy Stardust, Star, Hang On To Yourself, Looking For A Friend, Velvet Goldmine, Sweet Head

Joe — Thu, 11 Nov 1971 12:00:16 +0000

David Bowie recorded six songs for The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars on 11 November 1971. This was the third recording session for the album. Bowie decided to scrap the recordings made on 8 and 10 November. I really enjoyed doing that album, but I remember it being a nightmare because Bowie would come in and just throw songs at us. We were used to it, but the unfortunate thing wasn’t, ‘Here’s a song. Let’s rehearse it for an hour.’ It was, ‘Here’s a song. You got it? Let’s go.’ You had one or

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Recording: Ziggy Stardust LP

Joe — Wed, 10 Nov 1971 12:00:07 +0000

The second recording session took place at London’s Trident Studios on 10 November 1971. After this session, however, Bowie decided the results were sub-standard, and elected to re-record the songs laid down thus far. It is not known which songs were worked on during this session.

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Recording: Star, Hang On To Yourself

Joe — Mon, 08 Nov 1971 12:00:04 +0000

The first recording session for The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars took place on 8 November 1971. It occurred before the Hunky Dory album was released, such was Bowie’s urgency and prolificacy at this time. Having waited years for commercial and critical success, he knew he was on the cusp of a breakthrough. Bowie and his band underwent a fortnight of rehearsals at Underhill Studio in Blackheath, prior to beginning work at Trident Studios in central London. Despite laying the groundwork before entering the studios, his musicians still often felt underprepared. I really enjoyed

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Recording: It Ain’t Easy, Bombers

Joe — Fri, 09 Jul 1971 11:00:26 +0000

David Bowie recorded ‘It Ain’t Easy’ and ‘Bombers’ at Trident Studios on 9 July 1971. Although this was a Hunky Dory session, neither song was included on the eventual release. ‘It Ain’t Easy’ was held back for the following year’s The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, and ‘Bombers’ remained unreleased until January 1990, when it was a bonus track on the Rykodisc reissue of Hunky Dory. I certainly haven’t destroyed any of those tracks. I’ve kept them all. I think that maybe that we could put them out as a budget album or something

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