‘A Divine Symmetry’ brings together early mixes of HUNKY DORY tracks originally featured on the BOWPROMO album in 1971 along with new alternative Ken Scott mixes to create an alternative version of the Hunky Dory album, also featuring the session outtake ‘Bombers’.
1971 was a pivotal year for Bowie.
He signed a record deal with RCA, he met Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, and Iggy Pop
while in New York, became a father and penned the song ‘KOOKS’ as a show of
paternal pride, played live for the first time that June with Mick Ronson, Woody
Woodmansey and Trevor Bolder, the band that would later be christened the
Spiders From Mars and recorded the classic album HUNKY DORY.