When starting out in his career, the late musician went by the stage name Davy Jones – with recordings from this period finally set to be shared with the public.
David Bowie: The Shel Talmy Recordings have been billed by his music label as "the most complete collection of tracks recorded by a nascent David Bowie" with the producer Talmy, best known for his hits You Really Got Me with The Kinks and My Generation by The Who.
The album features 10 previously unheard tracks, with contributions coming from guitarist Jimmy Page, a member of The Yardbirds who would go on to form Led Zeppelin.
It also features Nicky Hopkins, a pianist who also worked with The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Who, and Jeff Beck.
Some singles from this period of Bowie's career have previously been made available, including Can't Help Thinking About Me and Do Anything You Say.
This new compilation – set to be released on 18 September – will bring together a range of unreleased material.
Among the songs are I Want Your Love, which is available now.
Others set to be included are titled You've Got a Habit of Leaving and Baby Loves That Way.
The other unheard songs are Cupid, Leave Her to Me, You Gotta Tell Her, Certain Woman, Today, I Live in Dreams, and I Do Believe I Love You.
As the musician and music historian Alec Palao puts it in his sleeve notes that accompany the album: "David Bowie the artist is a book of chapters, the turn of each page delivering something completely different and unexpected from the last.
"Each fascinating phase in his career should be considered complementary. This collection, a primary chapter if not the very earliest instalment in David's musical journey, deserves legitimate consideration."
Bowie and Talmy first encountered each other while frequenting London’s Denmark Street, which was the centre of the British music industry at the time, where songwriters sold their songs to the big publishers of the day.
The ex-pat American Talmy signed Bowie and the Manish Boys in December 1964, but the singer had already moved on and formed Davy Jones & The Lower Third.
The majority of the recordings Bowie made with Talmy featured The Lower Third or were solo demos.
The year after these songs were recorded, the singer changed his name to David Bowie to avoid confusion with Davy Jones of The Monkees.
Source: Press Association By RTE
