Billboard
Originally reviewed for week ending
3/3/73
The game is known as bandwagon jumping. With Bowie's name
and fame fast spreading it was only natural that his first U.S. LP on Deram
should be resurrected and surprise ... nine never heard before cuts are
successfully incorporated making this a must for collectors. Only fragmentary
glimpses of what was to come can be gleaned upon first listening. Closer
inspection heightens the clarity of his predestined present. He was known
as Davy Jones then and his voice bore a close kinship to Anthony Newley's
but the songs, although bordering on the melodramatic, are all bloody marvelous!
Best cuts: "The Laughing Gnome," "London Boy," "She's
Got My Medals," "We Are Hungry Men." Dealers: Just be sure
to keep this album well stocked--the magic of the Bowie name will do the
rest. |