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Longtime David Bowie pianist Mike Garson discussed Bowie's shelved 'Toy' album and upcoming 'A Bowie Celebration' livestream with UCR in January 2022.

Toy was recorded following David's triumphant Glastonbury 2000 performance. Bowie entered the studio with his band, Mark Plati, Sterling Campbell, Gail Ann Dorsey, Earl Slick, Mike Garson, Holly Palmer, and Emm Gryner, to record new interpretations of songs he’d first recorded from 1964-1971. David planned to record the album “old school” with the band playing live and release it right away. Instead, he had to move on to something new, which began with a handful of new songs from the same sessions and ultimately became the acclaimed album Heathen, released in 2002. Toy will finally ...

This box set of Bowie’s work in the 1990s—a period when he reasserted his role as the godfather of alternative music—houses the lost album Toy and makes a case for a bold, divisive era of experiments.

The 2001 record features reimaginings of some of Bowie’s earliest tracks

You can now listen to David Bowie's famously "lost" 2001 album Toy — the follow-up to 1999's Hours... that was shelved following a dispute w...