David Bowie Estate to Release ‘The Man Who Sold the World’ Companion Album With Unreleased Material
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variety.comJem Aswad Senior Music EditorAs the follow-up to David Bowie’s first hit “Space Oddity,” the album known as “The Man Who Sold the World” is itself an oddity in the David Bowie canon.
With dark, surreal lyrical themes and music that’s proto-heavy metal, the album, recorded in 1970, is an outlier, a drastic change of direction from the folk-rock that preceded it and the piano-based, melodic songs like “Changes” and “Life on Mars?” that followed on “Hunky Dory.” Most scandalous of all for the time, the album’s cover featured Bowie with very long hair, wearing a full-length dress.While it marks the debut of guitarist Mick Ronson and drummer Mick Woodmansey, who would accompany Bowie on his rise to superstardom two years later, the album.
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