DAVID BOWIE - OCCASIONAL DREAMING

500 numbered copies on COKE BOTTLE GREEN splatter vinyl with printed innersleeve. The Occasional Dreaming album was planned as David’s second Deram album but never saw the light of day. Released now for the first time as close as possible to the intended original album. Adding some tracks that inspired David to include on his own album. This is truly a real piece of history. 1968 was the year of revolution, where the unbridled happy partying of 1967 morphed into a sour and angry hangover. For Bowie, 1968 was when his interest in theatrical stage performance solidified, with Lindsay Kemp’s ‘Pierrot in Turquoise’, solo mime performances, a minor role in a TV drama, an attempt at cabaret and a multi-media trio - Turquoise/Feathers - featuring an early muse Hermione Farthingale. Any second album with Deram would surely have reflected all this - and not for the first time, and with the lack of a hit single under his belt, DB would’ve turned to songs by others, songs that fitted snuggly into his cannon, songs that he could make his own. In 1968 Deram issued a concept album in a whacky gatefold sleeve by Lionel Bart ‘Isn’t This Where We Came In?’ - which is full of angularity, humour and English whimsy. At the same time Tony Visconti was working with The Move in 1968 adding orchestral wit to their narrative pop nuggets. It’s not beyond the realms of possibility to imagine a second DB Deram album to be Bart meets The Move - all with the wry, dystopian, yearning Bowie singing about unattainable love with Brechtian detachment.... Occasional Dreaming - album scheduled SIDE A 01 - Let Me Sleep Beside You 02 - A Social Kind of Girl 03 - The Gospel According To Tony Day Blues 04 – Life is a Circus 05 - When I’m Five 06 - C’est La Vie 07 - London Bye Ta Ta SIDE B 01 - Occasional Dreaming 02 - In The Heat Of The Morning 03 - Lover To The Dawn 04 – Life is a Circus 05 – Next 06 – Pussy Cat 07 – Pinky and the Fellas     Follow us on Instagram @Thevinylgram