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David Bowie - Conversation Piece - Karma Man (John Peel – Top Gear, recorded 13.5.68)
Conversation Piece
Disc 1
01. April’s Tooth of Gold (home demo)
02. The Reverend Raymond Brown (Attends the Garden Fête on Thatchwick Green) (home demo)
03. When I’m Five (home demo)
04. Mother Grey (home demo)
05. In the Heat of the Morning (home demo)
06. Goodbye 3d (Threepenny) Joe (home demo)
07. Love All Around (home demo)
08. London Bye, Ta‐Ta (home demo)
09. Angel, Angel, Grubby Face (home demo version 1)
10. Angel, Angel, Grubby Face (home demo version 2)
11. Animal Farm (home demo)
12. Space Oddity (solo home demo fragment)
13. Space Oddity (home demo version 1)
14. Space Oddity (home demo version 2)
15. Space Oddity (home demo version 3)
16. Lover to the Dawn (home demo)
17. Ching‐A‐Ling (home demo)
18. An Occasional Dream (home demo)
19. Let Me Sleep Beside You (home demo)
20. Life Is a Circus (home demo)
21. Conversation Piece (home demo)
22. Jerusalem (home demo)
23. Hole in the Ground (home demo)
Disc 2
01. Space Oddity (‘Mercury’ demo)
02. Janine (‘Mercury’ demo)
03. An Occasional Dream (‘Mercury’ demo)
04. Conversation Piece (‘Mercury’ demo)
05. Ching‐A‐Ling (‘Mercury’ demo)
06. I’m Not Quite (aka Letter to Hermione) (‘Mercury’ demo)
07. Lover to the Dawn (‘Mercury’ demo)
08. Love Song (‘Mercury’ demo)
09. When I’m Five (‘Mercury’ demo)
10. Life Is a Circus (‘Mercury’ demo)
Disc 3
01. In the Heat of the Morning (Decca mono version)
02. London Bye, Ta‐Ta (Decca alternative version)
03. In the Heat of the Morning (John Peel – Top Gear, recorded 13.5.68)
04. London Bye, Ta‐Ta (John Peel – Top Gear, recorded 13.5.68)
05. Karma Man (John Peel – Top Gear, recorded 13.5.68)
06. When I’m Five (John Peel – Top Gear, recorded 13.5.68)
07. Silly Boy Blue (John Peel – Top Gear, recorded 13.5.68)
08. Ching‐A‐ling (mono)
09. Space Oddity (Morgan Studios, alternative take)
10. Space Oddity (UK mono single edit)
11. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (mono, single B‐side)
12. Janine (mono version)
13. Conversation Piece (mono version)
14. Let Me Sleep Beside You (BBC Radio session D.L.T. Show)
15. Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed (BBC Radio session D.L.T. Show)
16. Janine (BBC Radio session D.L.T. Show)
Disc 4
01. Space Oddity
02. Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed (inc. Don’t Sit Down)
03. Letter to Hermione
04. Cygnet Committee
05. Janine
06. An Occasional Dream
07. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
08. God Knows I’m Good
09. Memory of a Free Festival
10. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (single B‐side stereo mix)
11. Letter to Hermione (early mix)
12. Janine (early mix)
13. An Occasional Dream (early mix)
14. Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola
Disc 5
01. Space Oddity (2019 mix)
02. Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed (2019 mix)
03. Letter to Hermione (2019 mix)
04. Cygnet Committee (2019 mix)
05. Janine (2019 mix)
06. An Occasional Dream (2019 mix)
07. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (2019 mix)
08. Conversation Piece (2019 mix)
09. God Knows I’m Good (2019 mix)
10. Memory of a Free Festival (2019 mix)
11. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (single version, 2019 mix)
12. Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola (2019 mix)
Fingertip sun at sideshow stalls, they throw the balls
At coconut fur that hides behind coloured shades that blind your eyes
Every child's mother holds an ice-cream cone, they circle round
Perceived unknown by an eye that peers from a hole in the tent where no one goes
A figure sitting cross-legged on the floor he's clogged and clothed in saffron robes
His beads are all he owns

Slow down, slow down
Someone must have said that slow him down
Slow down, slow down
It's pictured on the arms of the karma man

Fairy tale skin, depicting scenes from human zoos
Impermanent toys like peace and war a gentle face you've seen before
Karma man tattooed on your side, the wheel of life
I see my times and who I've been I only live now and I don't know why
I struggle hard to take these pictures in, but
All my friends can see is just the pinkness of his skin

Slow down, slow down
Someone must have said that slowed him down
Slow down, slow down
It's pictured on the arms of the karma man

Slow down, slow down
Someone must have said that slowed him down
Slow down, slow down
It's pictured on the arms of the karma man