New David Bowie Box Set Collects His Final Albums
It is part of the critically acclaimed reissue series of box sets that celebrates Bowie’s legendary career since 1969.
DAVID BOWIE: Photographed by Masayoshi Sukita
DAVID BOWIE: Photographed by Masayoshi Sukita
David Bowie‘s final albums will be compiled in the latest box set, I Can’t Give Everything Away 2002-2016. It celebrates the final years of the rock icon’s music career and will be released as 13-disc CD set and 18 LP vinyl box sets.
The collection includes the last four studio albums released during this period in his career: Heathen (2002), Reality (2003), The Next Day (2013), and Blackstar (2016).
It includes the previously unreleased live album, Montreux Jazz Festival, recorded in 2002, containing 31 tracks and features most songs from Bowie’s 1977 album, Low. Meanwhile, the previously released live album, A Reality Tour, is now resequenced to be structured more like the set lists of the tour’s Dublin shows.
A brand new compilation will also be included, Re:call 6, includes 41 non-album tracks, edits, single versions, soundtrack songs, and B-sides — some of which are being released physically for the first time.
Additionally, the collection includes two of Bowie’s EPs: The Next Day Extra (2013) and the posthumously released No Plan (2017) featuring Bowie’s last three recordings: “No Plan,” “Killing A Little Time,” and “When I Met You.”
For supplementary material, the collection also includes a hardcover book featuring unseen notes, handwritten lyrics, drawings, and photos by Bowie’s longtime friend Masayoshi Sukita, Jimmy King, Frank W. Ockenfels III, Markus Klinko, and Mark “Blammo” Adams. It also features technical notes from co-producerProducerThe person who guides the creative and technical process of making a recording, shaping its sound, arrangement, and overall quality. Producers can write, compose, engineer, and direct performances, and aGo to Producer Glossary Tony Visconti and design notes from Jonathan Barnbrook.
The box set arrives on September 12, with pre-order links to be released very soon. It is part of the critically acclaimed reissue series that follows Five Years (1969 – 1973), Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976), A New Career in a New Town (1977 – 1982), Loving the Alien (1983 – 1988), and Brilliant Adventure (1992 – 2001).
Ahead of the collection’s release, listen to the AOL Session version of “New Killer Star,” the opening track to the Reality album, below:
