If there was ever one drawback from the officially released recordings, it is certainly the completeness of them, for most bands, one must look further into the underground markets or trade circles to get the complete picture, the same can be said of Bowie’s output, Bowie At The Beeb was released in 2000 and did provide a nice overview of this material, now it can be used as appetizer for the main meal.ġ13. There is a 36 page booklet that provides the same information as the CD sleeves and a large two sided poster, a smaller promo postcard with a handwritten note of thanks to the BBC as a mini card with a caption stating this box set is limited to 500 copies. The box has a similar layout to their previous efforts, a long box that houses four individual mini LP sleeves that are adorned with pictures from the era, song listing, recording and broadcast dates, sound engineers, and musicians on the recording. The folks at Magic Bus now present a follow up to their two previous David Bowie box sets by offering up the enigmatic artists complete BBC recordings. The recordings made by the BBC for their radio distribution would become some of the best “live” recordings from the period, acts like The Beatles, The Who, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Queen, and Led Zeppelin all have compilations of this material on my shelves. David Bowie The Ultimate BBC Radio Recording Sessions 1967-2002 (Box set)īBC Radio was hugely important to the burgeoning Rock scene in the mid to late 60’s, new and existing artists could have an outlet to have their music heard thanks to pioneering English rock DJ’s like Tony Blackburn, John Peel, and Tommy Vance.
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