The Friday Canon: DAME DAVID BOWIE

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

What a lot of singles David Bowie has had! But which are the best? This week's instalment of the canon polls casts a spotlight on the mysterious Pierrot of Pop through the prism of his Top 40 hits, including collaborations and....side projects.

You get NINETEEN ticks to sum up Bowie's style-spanning career.




[Poll #838332]

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty amazed that Changes wasn't on the list either, as it's always on his greatest hits comps. I guess it was a single here but not any kind of hit.

[koganbot]

My guess is that it was never an actual released-on-its-own single, even though it and "Suffragette City" get on the first Bowie best-of, changesonebowie. (In the U.S. the Stones' record co. was smart enough to put "Under My Thumb," "Sympathy for the Devil," and the live "Midnight Rambler" on Hot Rocks, even though none had been actual singles.)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Wiki has a Bowie singles chronology. Confirms that "Changes" was a proper single. Did nothing in UK. Charted at #66 in US originally and then #41 on reissue in 1975.

"Suffragette City" was belatedly released as a UK single to promote Changesonebowie but again did not chart.