Dana Gillespie is nowadays known as a blues/R&B/jazz singer, but in her younger years she had two brief (but impressive) alternative careers. In 1967/68 she made two albums of folk pop, Foolish Seasons and Box Of Surprises. A long time friend and lover of David Bowie, she sang backing vocals on Ziggy Stardust and was signed to Bowie's management company Mainman. For that company, she made two LPs, the superb Weren't Born A Man (1973) and Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle (1974). Despite production from David Bowie, Mick Ronson and Robin Cable, and the support of the best studio musicians of the day, neither album was a hit and Gillespie concentrated on her sex-bomb film career before reinventing herself as a bawdy blues mama in the 1980s.

Andy Warhol (From Weren't Born A Man) / Weren't Born A Man (From Weren't Born A Man) / Lavender Hill (Previously Unreleased Produced, Arranged And Played On By Mick Ronson) / Really Love The Man (From Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle) / Eternal Showman (From Weren't Born A Man) / Never Knew (Previously Unreleased Version, Radically Different From The One On Ain' T Gonna Play Arranged For Strings By Mick Ronson) / Don't Mind Me (From Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle) / Mother Don't Be Frightened (From Weren't Born A Man) / Stardom Road Parts I & Ii (From Weren't Born A Man) / Wanderlust (From Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle) / Dizzy Heights (From Weren' T Born A Man) / Backed A Loser (From Weren't Born A Man) / No Tail To Wag (From Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle) / All Gone (From Weren't Born A Man)

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