EMI Releases Bowie Classics

On Oct. 7, EMI-Capitol Entertainment Properties released a limited special edition David Bowie hits package. With this release, Bowie is just one of the four artists taking part in the label's "Essential" albums series.

Fans of Bowie, who is currently on tour in America, must pick up David Bowie - Best Of 1969-1974. This collection of 20 hits highlights Bowie's energetic early years when he first launched onto the music scene and introduced the world to his alter ego Ziggy Stardust.

The compilation includes Bowie favorites "All The Young Dudes," "Space Oddity," "Ziggy Stardust" and "Suffragette City" along with a cover of the Rolling Stones "Let's Spend The Night Together." In addition, the album highlights 16 other songs including many b-sides and previously unreleased stereo versions.

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Song Stories

“Too Close”

Next | 1998

Next was formed in Minneapolis when the uncle of Terry "T-Low" and Raphael "Tweety" Brown, who was a gospel choir director, introduced the brothers to Robert Lavelle "R.L." Huggar. Sounds of Blackness singer Ann Nesby groomed the R&B group before handing them over to Naughty by Nature's KayGee, who wrote and produced "Too Close." The idea for the song was sparked "from a conversation we had with several girls at a nightclub," explained T-Low. "It's talking about the club scene, with guys getting out of hand and the female telling him to back up, asking, 'What are you doing?'" 

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