A new box set called ‘Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976)’ Out today 28/09/16 that contains one unreleased from 1974. It’s called ‘The Gouster’, it eventually "morphed" into Bowie's 1975 album 'Young Americans'
Tony Visconti recalls on NME some facts about Gouster which is a dress used in the 60's by afroamericans teens of Chicago: "Of all the songs we cut we were enamoured of the ones we chose for the album that portrayed this attitude. It’s a soul record. We were fans of the TV show Soul Train. We weren’t ‘young, gifted and black’ but we sure as hell wanted to make a killer soul album, which
was quite insane, but pioneers like the Righteous Brothers were there before us.
The album was dangerously long. The time limitations caused by vinyl – which included a big drop in volume above 18 minutes per side – meant that they had to make the grooves narrower for quieter songs – in the end they squeezed in everything. “Forty minutes of glorious funk,” Visconti says. “That’s what it was and that’s how I thought it would be.”
"We put a funkafied version of the 1972 track ‘John, I’m Only Dancing’, which was released as a single in 1979. Our version, Visconti explains sounded like it was played live in a loft party in Harlem and he added (Again) to the title. It wasn’t the two-and-a-half-minute length of the original either.”
he album also has ‘Somebody Up There Likes Me’ and ‘It’s Going To Be Me’, the first of which was originally included on ‘Young Americans’, and the second of which was reissued with that album in 1991. In total, it has four tracks in common with the original issue of ‘Young Americans’, while all of the songs have appeared on various special editions of that album. See the full tracklisting below:
Side 1
1. John, I’m Only Dancing (Again)
2. Somebody Up There Likes Me
3. It’s Gonna Be Me Side 2
1. Who Can I Be Now?
2. Can You Hear Me
3. Young Americans
4. Right
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, gifted and black’ but we sure as hell wanted to make a killer soul album, which
