LISTEN: New David Bowie Track

'Tis A Pity She Was A Whore out digitally today, set for release as B-side to new single Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime) next week

David Bowie is releasing Nothing has changed., a new compilation of some of his greatest hits alongside some harder-to-find material and a new single, ‘Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)’ (head to Bowie’s website to hear the song being given its first play on Guy Garvey’s 6 Music show).

Both the album and single are out next week, but today he’s preceded them by digitally releasing ”Tis A Pity She Was A Whore’, the B-side to ‘Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)’. It nods both to John Ford’s 17th-century play ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore and the First World War, with Bowie saying of it: "If Vorticists wrote rock music it might have sounded like this". It’s on Spotify now, so play it via the embed below, take a look at Jonathan Barnbrook’s artwork for the track above and get hold of it here.

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