Clareville Grove Demos

Clareville Grove Demos is a box set EP by English musician David Bowie, released posthumously in May 2019. The set includes three 7" vinyl records containing six songs performed by Bowie with his friend John Hutchinson in early 1969. All songs in the collection are presented in mono, demo form. In November, all songs were released on CD on the Conversation Piece box set.

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Clareville Grove Demos
Box set by David Bowie
Released	17 May 2019 (2019-05-17)
Recorded	January 1969
Studio	Bowie's Apartment, Clareville Grove, Kensington, London
Length	22:32
Label	Parlophone
David Bowie chronology
Spying Through a Keyhole (2019) Clareville Grove Demos (2019) The 'Mercury' Demos (2019)

Background

Like Spying Through a Keyhole, the box set was released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Bowie's 1969 album David Bowie. Two of the six demos, "Space Oddity" and "An Occasional Dream", had already been released in 2009 on the 40th anniversary reissue of that album.^[2]

The material was recorded in January 1969 to promote Bowie & Hutch to potential record labels, as David had just been dropped by Deram.^[3]

Track listing

All tracks are written by David Bowie, except where noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Space Oddity"		5:12
2.	"Lover to the Dawn"		3:48
3.	"Ching-a-Ling"		2:59
4.	"An Occasional Dream"		2:49
5.	"Let Me Sleep Beside You"		2:59
6.	"Life Is a Circus"	Roger Bunn	4:45