Clareville Grove Demos
{{Short description|2019 box set by David Bowie}}
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| name = Clareville Grove Demos
| type = Box set
| artist = David Bowie
| cover = Clareville Grove Demos.jpg|border=yes
| alt =
| released = {{start date|2019|5|17|df=yes}}
| recorded = January 1969
| venue =
| studio = Bowie's Apartment, Clareville Grove, Kensington, London
| genre =
| length = {{duration|m=22|s=32}}
| label = Parlophone
| producer =
| prev_title = Spying Through a Keyhole
| prev_year = 2019
| next_title = The 'Mercury' Demos
| next_year = 2019
| misc =
}}
Clareville Grove Demos is a box set EP by English musician David Bowie, released posthumously in May 2019. The set includes three 7" vinyl records containing six songs performed by Bowie with his friend John Hutchinson in early 1969. All songs in the collection are presented in mono, demo form. In November, all songs were released on CD on the Conversation Piece box set.
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Background
Like Spying Through a Keyhole, the box set was released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Bowie's 1969 album David Bowie. Two of the six demos, "Space Oddity" and "An Occasional Dream", had already been released in 2009 on the 40th anniversary reissue of that album.{{cite web | url=https://www.davidbowie.com/blog/2019/2/12/clareville-grove-demos-box-due | title=Clareville Grove Demos box due | website=davidbowie.com |access-date=27 July 2019 | date= 12 February 2019}}
The material was recorded in January 1969 to promote Bowie & Hutch to potential record labels, as David had just been dropped by Deram.David Bowie With John 'Hutch' Hutchinson - Clareville Grove Demos Liner Notes, 2019, Parlophone
Track listing
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| all_writing = David Bowie, except where noted
| headline =
| total_length =
| title1 = Space Oddity
| length1 = 5:12
| title2 = Lover to the Dawn
| length2 = 3:48
| title3 = Ching-a-Ling
| length3 = 2:59
| title4 = An Occasional Dream
| length4 = 2:49
| title5 = Let Me Sleep Beside You
| length5 = 2:59
| title6 = Life Is a Circus
| length6 = 4:45
| writer6 = Roger Bunn
| all_lyrics =
}}
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Category:2019 compilation albums