{"id":551417,"date":"2026-07-15T18:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/551417\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T18:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:59:08","slug":"unheard-david-bowie-songs-from-1965-to-be-released-including-ones-with-jimmy-page-on-guitar-david-bowie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/551417\/","title":{"rendered":"Unheard David Bowie songs from 1965 to be released \u2013 including ones with Jimmy Page on guitar | David Bowie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unheard 1965 recordings by David Bowie<\/a>, from when he was starting out in swinging 60s London as Davy Jones, are finally to be released \u2013 some featuring a pre-Led Zeppelin Jimmy Page.<\/p>\n

Before he broke through with 1969\u2019s Space Oddity, and scaled up through The Man Who Sold the World and Hunky Dory towards the explosive impact of his Ziggy Stardust alter ego in 1972, Bowie started out as a very different kind of artist: sharp-suited and coiffured, playing the kind of forthright, blues-influenced, sometimes faintly psychedelic pop-rock that was the hallmark of mid-60s London, from the Beatles to the Small Faces and the Who.<\/p>\n

Singles from this period \u2013 such as Can\u2019t Help Thinking About Me and Do Anything You Say \u2013 have previously been made available, but a new compilation released on 18 September, David Bowie: The Shel Talmy Recordings, brings together a range of unreleased material.<\/p>\n

One song, I Want Your Love, is available now: a bluesy rock\u2019n\u2019roll number with Bowie horn-doggishly yearning for a lover.<\/p>\n

Performed either solo or with the backing bands the Lower Third and the Manish Boys, the other unheard songs are entitled Cupid, Leave Her to Me, You Gotta Tell Her, Certain Woman, Today, I Live in Dreams and I Do Believe I Love You, plus there is an instrumental called Keep Up With the Jones. Other tracks have been previously released, or are unheard versions of existing material.<\/p>\n

At this point in his career, Bowie, born David Jones, used the name Davy (sometimes Davie) Jones, before he changed it in 1966 to David Bowie to avoid confusion with Davy Jones of the Monkees.<\/p>\n

The compilation\u2019s tracks were recorded with the producer Shel Talmy, a significant figure in 1960s rock who also helmed hits such as the Kinks\u2019 You Really Got Me, the Who\u2019s My Generation, and multiple songs by Manfred Mann.<\/p>\n

Talmy frequently worked with Jimmy Page, then a session guitarist, and Page was brought in as a member of the Manish Boys who backed Bowie. Nicky Hopkins, who also played piano with the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Jeff Beck and more, is another session player on the unheard recordings.<\/p>\n

Cover art for David Bowie: The Shel Talmy Recordings. Photograph: Parlophone<\/p>\n

Two Talmy-produced songs, I Pity the Fool and You\u2019ve Got a Habit of Leaving, were released as singles. \u201cI thought he absolutely was going to make it,\u201d Talmy said in 2017. \u201cThe only unfortunate thing is that he and I were about six years ahead of the market.\u201d<\/p>\n

Being very much of its period, Bowie\u2019s 60s material didn\u2019t quite herald the arrival of an artist who would completely reshape the boundaries for rock music, a fact acknowledged by music historian Alec Palao in the compilation\u2019s liner notes: \u201cThe sounds here should not be judged by the standards of his later career, but by the standards of what was happening in Britain at that precise point in time.\u201d<\/p>\n

He adds: \u201cDavid Bowie the artist is a book of chapters, the turn of each page delivering something completely different and unexpected from the last \u2026 a cardinal error would be to pit any of these episodes against the others, when in fact each fascinating phase in his career should be considered complementary. This collection, a primary chapter if not the very earliest instalment in David\u2019s musical journey, deserves legitimate consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n

And if Bowie certainly became more experimental and daring, folding in everything from funk and soul to drum\u2019n\u2019bass and jazz into his songcraft over the years, he didn\u2019t disown this earlier material.<\/p>\n

He revisited various songs in 2000 with the band he\u2019d wowed the Glastonbury festival with that year, re-recording tracks such as his debut single Liza Jane and others, for an album entitled Toy. But Bowie then refocused on writing new songs \u2013 an impressive run of albums from 2002\u2019s Heathen to 2016\u2019s Blackstar \u2013 and Toy ended up being released in 2021, five years after his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unheard 1965 recordings by David Bowie, from when he was starting out in swinging 60s London as Davy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-551417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}