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

“Tonight's the Night”

The Shirelles | 1960

The lead cut and title track from this girl group's debut album, "Tonight's the Night" was written by 19-year-old bandmember Shirley Owens, who sings lead, and producer Luther Dixon. The band from Passaic, New Jersey met in high school, first calling themselves the Pequellos. The song's frank thoughts about sexual and emotional surrender was racy for the time, but that didn't stop the Chiffons from cutting a similar version immediately after the original came out. "We were the first female group to write some of our own material," band member Beverly Lee recalls. "We did have some say-so in our writing."

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