*MP3 -David Bowie "The Prettiest Star" 3:09

Lots of mis-information has circulated about this track. It can be found on two Bowie Hits releases. One is the Box-Set "Sound & Vision" The Booklet is incorrect about whom plays on it. I was lucky enough to get the correct band line up from someone who was present at the recording Mr. Tony Visconti. He was kind enough to help me with this and other information while I was preparing my "Mystic/Sessions/Oddities" web site. I will include the information he passed on to me below. You can purchase any 1970 "SINGLE" version of this track and they should include Marc Bolan. .

I can't thank Tony enough for all his help in "setting the record straight" on my original sites as he said "it was time to stop the science fiction that was on so many sites and keep Marc's history true"
To visit one of the sites Tony helped me with go to (soon to be updated): Marc Bolan's Session work

"The Prettiest Star" was considered the only documented appearence by Marc on a David Bowie track. It is currently available (the original recording) on Rykodisc's rare Bowie collection "Sound & Vision". This song also appears on the album "Aladin Sane" with Mick Ronson playing the guitar part; he copied Marc's playing note for note. Band lineup? This is what was incorrectly quoted in the book "Bowie-Lead Vocal & guitar,Marc - Guitar, Tony Visconti - Bass, John Cambridge - Drums." However, Tony Visconti - who, after all, was there at the time - has given us the real lineup. Here's the quote:

The line up for the "Prettiest Star" is as follows:

Godfrey McClean Drums (I only used this guy once ever) Me on bass Marc on lead gtr. Bowie on AcousticÊ 12 str. Sue & Sonny (sister team who sing backups) with Leslie Duncan
I wrote the string arrangents.
T.V.