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Bowie First recorded for David Bowie’s 1967 debut album, ‘When I Live My Dream’ was subsequently remade as a potential single, and featured as the final song in the Love You Till Tuesday film.
Bowie reportedly thought highly of the song, and he and his manager Kenneth Pitt hoped that it would become the breakthrough song that led to stardom. Although this was not to be, it remains one of the highlights of the David Bowie album. Bowie recorded a version of ‘When I Live My Dream’ during his first BBC radio session, for the Top Gear show on 18 December 1967. It was produced by Bernie Andrews, and had Bowie on acoustic guitar, with accompaniment from the Arthur Greenslade Orchestra.
The other songs recorded for the session, which was first broadcast on 24 December, were ‘Love You Till Tuesday’, ‘In The Heat Of The Morning’, ‘Silly Boy Blue’, and ‘Little Bombardier’. All of the recordings were included on the deluxe reissue of David Bowie in 2010.
‘When I Live My Dream’ was also included in Lindsay Kemp’s mime stage production Pierrot In Turquoise, which opened at Oxford’s New Theatre on 28 December 1967. Bowie often performed ‘When I Lived My Dream’ during live shows in the late Sixties. A notable instance was at the Malta International Song Festival. On 26 July 1969, the opening night of the festival, Bowie sang the song with an orchestral backing, conducted by Norrie Paramour.
Six days later, on 1 August, he performed ‘When I Live My Dream’ at the Festival Internazionale del Disco in Monsummano Terme, Tuscany, Italy, where he sang to a backing tape. When I Live My Dream’ was first recorded at Decca’s Studio Two on Saturday 25 February 1967.
Three songs for Bowie’s debut album were recorded during the session: a remake of ‘Rubber Band’, ‘Love You Till Tuesday’, and ‘When I Live My Dream’. Also planned but not recorded was a new stereo version of ‘The London Boys’.
The session was produced by Mike Vernon, and was arranged by an uncredited Arthur Greenslade. The three songs were recorded and mixed in stereo between 10am and 6pm.
A rerecorded version of this track from his debut album was offered to Deram as a possible follow-up single to Love You Till Tuesday (again b/w Karma Man) but, like the first attempt to secure a 4th single Let Me Sleep Beside You and subsequent one (In The Heat Of The Morning), was rejected
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