They include several Iggy classics as well as a future Bowie smash hit single and the title track of a subsequent Bowie album.

Despite going into the studio with no material ready to record, the album took only 2 1/2 weeks to record (typical for a Bowie album).

Earthling was the first Bowie album recorded entirely digitally, "entirely on hard disk."

It brought the total number of Bowie albums currently in the UK chart to six.

"I guess it's not as obviously melodic as one would think it would probably be [for a Bowie album]."

In 2004, it was already released on the bonus disc of the re-released Bowie album.

It was this band, minus Wakeman, that became known as The Spiders from Mars from the title of the next Bowie album.

In 1993, he again appeared on a Bowie album, Black Tie White Noise, playing on the track "I Feel Free", originally recorded by Cream.

I remember when I was eight, and my dad played a Bowie album in the car.

Bowie biographer David Buckley has reported that Pop "virtually disowned" the record, calling it "a Bowie album in all but name".