David Bowie’s Hunky Dory gets deluxe reissue featuring unreleased tracks and demos

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29 Sep 2022, 09:57

Everything's Hunky Dory in the music world. The late, great icon David Bowie has a fourth studio album being released as a deluxe reissue featuring 48 never-heard-before home demos and live recordings.

Divine Symmetry (An Alternate Journey Through Hunky Dory) is set to drop on November 25 across four CDs taken from the year before its 1971 release containing home and hotel room demos of songs from the album including King Of The City, Right On Mother, How Lucky You Are (Miss Peculiar) and Tired Of My Life. Plus there's also his 1971 John Peel live session, BBC radio recordings, live cuts, the ‘BOWPROMO’ EP and B-sides.

The box set includes a Blu-ray disc with the 2015 remastered edition of Hunky Dory and the 'alternate journey through Hunky Dory' available as a standalone vinyl edition next year, plus a 100-page book with exclusive photos and memorabilia, a 60-page replica of Bowie’s notes with handwritten lyrics and costume drawings, which you can pre-order here.

Brett Morgen’s new Bowie documentary featuring unheard material, Moonage Daydream, recently got glowing reviews from NME, who wrote: “Morgen’s film isn’t a greatest hits set. It’s much better than that. It’s an avant garde portrait of an artist that scratches away at the surface paint to reveal the many layers beneath. You should seek it out, immediately.”

Bowie's handwritten iconic Starman lyrics penned in blue ink on graph paper have been sold at auction for £203,500.

The retro piece was originally estimated to sell for approximately £40,000 but has sold for five times more than what was expected.