David Bowie: "The Width of a Circle" Album (2021)

David Bowie’s The Width of a Circle was released as a 2-CD set featuring 21 unreleased tracks and a 4-track 10-inch vinyl/digital edition in the UK by Parlophone Records (catalog number DBWIDTH21) on May 28, 2021.

The first CD features 14 tracks performed by David Bowie and The Tony Visconti Trio (a.k.a. The Hype) for John Peel’s The Sunday Show in February 1970 (the label are claiming that six of these are unreleased) while the second disc is very much an ‘odds and sods’ collection of material. It includes some bonus material first heard on CD back in 1989/1990 when Rykodisc began their Bowie reissue campaign.

Such tracks include 1970 single A-side ‘Holy Holy’, the single mix of ‘The Prettiest Star’ (although it’s included here in unreleased alternate mix form – “created for promotion in the US market”), both mono and stereo mixes of ‘London Bye Ta-Ta’ and the A and B-side mixes of ‘Memory of A Free Festival’.

In addition, this CD offers five tracks from a play (“The Looking Glass Murders aka Pierrot in Turquoise”) and five 2020 stereo mixes of some of the non-album material remixed by Tony Visconti. Four of those five are also available on a special 10-inch single (also called The Width of a Circle).The Sunday Show Introduced By John Peel Recorded On 5th February, 1970:

1-1 Amsterdam

3:32

1-2 God Knows I'm Good 3:36

1-3 Buzz The Fuzz

3:27

1-4 Karma Man 4:11

1-5 London Bye, Ta-Ta 3:21

1-6 An Occasional Dream 3:23

1-7 The Width Of A Circle 5:54

1-8 Janine 4:01

1-9 Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud 4:43

1-10 Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed 6:28

1-11 Fill Your Heart

3:11

1-12 The Prettiest Star 3:18

1-13 Cygnet Committee 9:18

1-14 Memory Of A Free Festival 3:43

The Looking Glass Murders Aka Pierrot in Turquoise:

2-1 When I Live My Dream 3:38

2-2 Columbine 1:34

2-3 Harlequin 1:29

2-4 Threepenny Pierrot 1:57

2-5 When I Live My Dream (Reprise) 1:56

The Singles:

2-6 The Prettiest Star (Alternate Mix) 3:11

2-7 London Bye, Ta-Ta 2:41

2-8 London Bye, Ta-Ta (1970 Stereo Mix) 2:40

2-9 Memory Of A Free Festival (Single Version Part 1) 4:04

2-10 Memory Of A Free Festival (Single Version Part 2) 3:35

2-11 Holy Holy 3:13

Sounds Of The 70s: Andy Ferris Show Recorded On 25th March, 1970:

2-12 Waiting For The Man

5:44

2-13 The Width Of A Circle 5:39

2-14 Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud 4:45

2-15 The Supermen 3:22

The 2020 Mixes:

2-16 The Prettiest Star (2020 Mix) 3:34

2-17 London Bye, Ta-Ta (2020 Mix) 2:42

2-18 Memory Of A Free Festival (2020 Mix) 5:23

2-19 All The Madmen (Single Edit - 2020 Mix) 3:28

2-20 Holy Holy (2020 Mix) 3:29