A previously unheard David Bowie demo titled ‘Today’ has been released, taken from the upcoming 1965 Shel Talmy Recordings album.
The release comes as a series of Early David Bowie songs from 1965 are to be released on a new album featuring a pre-Led Zeppelin Jimmy Page.
Set to arrive on September 18 via Parlophone (pre-order/pre-save here), the songs were recorded before the singer – real name Davie Jones – went on to adopt the David Bowie moniker.
They were all made alongside legendary producer Shel Talmy, who was responsible for hits from The Who and The Kinks. The album will also include 10 previously unheard tracks, as well as musical contributions from pre-Led Zeppelin Jimmy Page, The Yardbirds and Nicky Hopkins (The Rolling Stones, The Beatles).
Along with the album announcement, there was the release of the previously unheard ‘I Want Your Love’. Now, there is another previously unheard demo that has been dropped, titled ‘Today’.
The second track to be released from the album, ‘Today’ is a melancholic, stripped back ballad, and opens with chords and melodies that would later go on to become a signature style of Bowie in years to come.
