DAVID BOWIE – The Beckenham Oddity

1969 treasure trove

Any Bowie fan unaware of this bootleg collection should seek it out. It’s a brilliant snapshot of time, with Bowie and his Feathers partner John Hutchinson casually working away in Bowie’s South Kensington flat.

(The flat still exists!)

Parlophone released a boxed set of singles covering some of this, but not all. The dates vary wildly on different bootle…