Changesonebowie
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{{Infobox album
| name = Changesonebowie
| type = compilation
| artist = David Bowie
| cover = Changes one-cover.gif
| alt =
| recorded = 1969–1976
| studio =
| genre = Rock, glam rock, art rock
| length = 44:14
| label = RCA
| producer = David Bowie, Gus Dudgeon, Ken Scott, Tony Visconti, Harry Maslin
| prev_title = Station to Station
| prev_year = 1976
| next_title = Low
| next_year = 1977
| misc =
{{Singles
| name = Changesonebowie
| type = compilation
| single1 = Suffragette City
| single1date = 9 July 1976
}}
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web |last1=Thompson |first1=Dave |author-link=Dave Thompson (author) |title=Changesonebowie – David Bowie |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/changesonebowie-mw0000836716 |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=16 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191218221725/https://www.allmusic.com/album/changesonebowie-mw0000836716 |archive-date=18 December 2019}}
| rev2 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music
| rev2score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|chapter=Bowie, David|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|location=London|publisher=Omnibus Press|edition=5th concise|year=2011|isbn=978-0-85712-595-8}}
| rev3 = Pitchfork
| rev3score = 8.8/10{{cite web|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21896-changesonebowie/|title=David Bowie: Changesonebowie Album Review|website=Pitchfork|date=24 May 2016|access-date=16 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125151302/https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21896-changesonebowie/|archive-date=25 November 2020}}
| rev4 = Robert Christgau
| rev5 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide
| rev5Score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite book|last=Sheffield|first=Rob|author-link=Rob Sheffield|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor1-link=Nathan Brackett|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-link=Christian Hoard|chapter=David Bowie|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide|location=New York City|publisher=Simon & Schuster|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=978-0-7432-0169-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/97 97–99]}}
| rev6 = Spin Alternative Record Guide
| rev6score = 9/10{{cite book|last=Sheffield|first=Rob|author-link=Rob Sheffield|title=Spin Alternative Record Guide|title-link=Spin Alternative Record Guide|editor1-last=Weisbard|editor1-first=Eric|editor1-link=Eric Weisbard|editor2-last=Marks|editor2-first=Craig|publisher=Vintage Books|year=1995|isbn=978-0-679-75574-6|chapter=David Bowie|pages=55–57}}
}}
Changesonebowie is a compilation album by English musician David Bowie, issued through RCA Records in 1976. It collected songs from the 1969–1976 period, including the first LP appearance of "John, I'm Only Dancing". A "sax version" of this song, cut during the Aladdin Sane sessions in 1973, appeared on the first 1000 copies of the UK pressing (identified by the lack of the RCA logo in the upper-right corner of the cover). Later pressings of Changesonebowie featured the original version of the single that had been recorded and released in 1972. All US pressings of the LP contain this original version as well.
Two of the tracks, "Ziggy Stardust" and "Suffragette City", had never been released as singles when Changesonebowie was issued, though the former had been the B-side of "The Jean Genie" in November 1972 and the latter would be released as an A-side in July 1976 to help promote the compilation.
The album was followed up by a companion compilation, Changestwobowie, in 1981.
Album history
RCA Records reissued Changesonebowie on CD in 1984, but it was withdrawn shortly afterwards, along with the rest of Bowie's RCA catalogue, due to a conflict between Bowie and RCA. The RCA CD contains the original single version of "John, I'm Only Dancing".
When the Bowie catalogue was reissued by Rykodisc beginning in 1990, Changesonebowie was replaced by a new compilation, Changesbowie, on which "Fame" was superseded by the "Gass Mix" of "Fame 90" (produced and remixed by Jon Gass) and "'Heroes'", "Ashes to Ashes", "Fashion", "Let's Dance", "China Girl", "Modern Love", and "Blue Jean" were added. In addition to the above, Rykodisc added the songs "Starman" (following "Space Oddity"), "Life on Mars?" (following "The Jean Genie"), and "Sound and Vision" (following "Golden Years") to the double-LP editions of the album.
A remastered edition of the original Changesonebowie compilation was released on 20 May 2016, on vinyl and CD, to mark its 40th anniversary. On 13 April 2018, Changesonebowie was released in digital/streaming formats, along with a newly remastered edition of its follow-up, Changestwobowie, on vinyl, CD and digital/streaming.{{cite web|url=https://www.davidbowie.com/blog/2018/4/13/changestwo-black-or-blue|title=CHANGESTWO black or blue?|work=David Bowie Official Website|access-date=14 April 2018}}
The cover provided the inspiration for the 2009 expanded edition of the Morrissey album Southpaw Grammar.
Acclaim
In 1987, as part of their 20th anniversary, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number 96 on "The Top 100 Albums of the Last Twenty Years." In 2003, the album was ranked number 425 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6626821/425_changesone |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060409184024/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6626821/425_changesone/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 April 2006 |title=News |publisher=Rolling Stone |access-date=10 January 2012}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| all_writing = David Bowie, except where noted
| headline = Side one
| extra_column = Original release
| title1 = Space Oddity
| extra1 = Space Oddity (1969)
| length1 = 5:14
| title2 = John, I'm Only Dancing
| note2 = sax version
| extra2 = Single A-side (1972)
| length2 = 2:43
| title3 = Changes
| extra3 = Hunky Dory (1971)
| length3 = 3:33
| title4 = Ziggy Stardust
| extra4 = The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
| length4 = 3:13
| title5 = Suffragette City
| extra5 = The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
| length5 = 3:25
| title6 = The Jean Genie
| extra6 = Aladdin Sane (1973)
| length6 = 4:03
| total_length = 22:11
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Side two
| extra_column = Original release
| title1 = Diamond Dogs
| extra1 = Diamond Dogs (1974)
| length1 = 5:56
| title2 = Rebel Rebel
| extra2 = Diamond Dogs
| length2 = 4:30
| title3 = Young Americans
| extra3 = Young Americans (1975)
| length3 = 5:10
| title4 = Fame
| writer4 = Bowie, Carlos Alomar, John Lennon
| extra4 = Young Americans
| length4 = 4:12
| title5 = Golden Years
| extra5 = Station to Station (1976)
| length5 = 3:59
| total_length = 22:03 (44:14)
}}
Personnel
- David Bowie – vocals, guitars, keyboards, saxophone, harmonica, stylophone, Moog, Mellotron, backing vocals
- Tim Renwick – guitar (side one-1)
- Mick Wayne – guitar (side one-1)
- Rick Wakeman – mellotron (side one-1)
- Herbie Flowers – bass (side one-1, side two 1,2)
- Terry Cox – drums (side one-1)
- Mick Ronson – guitars, piano, moog, backing vocals (side one 2–6)
- Trevor Bolder – bass (side one 2–6)
- Mick Woodmansey – drums (side one 2–6)
- Tony Newmark – drums (side two 1)
- Aynsley Dunbar – drums (side two 2)
- Carlos Alomar – guitars (side two 3,4,5)
- Earl Slick – guitars (side two 4,5)
- John Lennon – guitar, backing vocals (side two 4)
- Mike Garson – Piano, keyboards (side one 2–6, side two 1–4)
- Roy Bittan – piano (side two 5)
- Willy Weeks – bass (side two 9)
- Emir Ksasan – bass (side two 10)
- George Murray – bass (side two 5)
- Andy Newmark – drums (side two 3)
- Dennis Davis – drums (side two 4,5)
- David Sanborn – saxophone (side two 3)
- Pablo Rosario – percussion (side two 3)
- Larry Washington – percussion (side two 3)
- Ralph Mcdonald – percussion (side two 4)
- Ava Cherry, Robin Clark, Anthony Hinton, Diane Sumler, Luther Vandross – backing vocals (side two 3)
- Warren Peace – backing vocals (side two 3,5)
- Jean Millington, Jean Fineberg – backing vocals (side two 4)
- Harry Maslin, Editing, Assembling, and Mastering
Charts
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{{album chart|New Zealand|8|artist=David Bowie|album=Changesonebowie|rowheader=true|access-date=12 May 2020}} |
UK Albums (OCC){{cite web |title=Changesonebowie – full Official Chart History |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/search/albums/changesonebowie/ |website=officialcharts.com |publisher=Official Charts Company |access-date=25 January 2022}}
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US Billboard Top LPs & Tape{{cite magazine |title=Changesonebowie Chart History |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/david-bowie/chart-history/tlp/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=24 August 2021}}
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scope="col"| Chart (2016)
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{{album chart|Flanders|59|artist=David Bowie|album=Changesonebowie|rowheader=true|access-date=27 May 2016}} |
{{album chart|Wallonia|89|artist=David Bowie|album=Changesonebowie|rowheader=true|access-date=27 May 2016}} |
{{album chart|France|197|artist=David Bowie|album=Changesonebowie|rowheader=true|access-date=12 May 2020}} |
{{album chart|Hungary|14|year=2016|week=20|rowheader=true|access-date=27 May 2016}} |
{{album chart|Ireland|49|year=2016|week=21|rowheader=true|access-date=27 May 2016}} |
UK Albums (OCC)
|align="center"|32 |
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Certifications
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{{Certification Table Entry|region=Canada|type=album|title=Changesonebowie|artist=David Bowie|award=Platinum|number=2|relyear=1976|certyear=1982|access-date=26 January 2025}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|artist=David Bowie|title=Changesonebowie|award=Platinum|type=album|relyear=1976|certyear=1981|access-date=September 19, 2022}}
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References
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External links
- {{Discogs master|type=album|22239|name=Changesonebowie}}
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Category:David Bowie compilation albums