New David Bowie box set compiles all works between 2002 and 2016
The final albums and works of David Bowie have been compiled into a new box set, I Can’t Give Everything Away (2002 – 2016).
The box set is a 13-CD, 18-piece vinyl and standard digital download/streaming box set named after the closing track on Blackstar, Bowie’s final studio album.
It is the sixth in an award-winning series that begins with the box set Five Years (1969 – 1973), including Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976), A New Career In A New Town (1977 – 1982), Loving The Alien (1983 – 1988) and, finally, Brilliant Adventure 1992 – 2001).
The box set will include remastered versions of Heathen, Reality, The Next Day and The Next Day EP. It also includes the original versions of Blackstar and No Plan EP as well as live albums, one recorded at Montreux Jazz Festival in 2002, one from 2003’s infamous Reality Tour.
Bowie’s 2002 Heathen was the first collaboration for 22 years between Bowie and co-producer Tony Visconti. The 2003 follow-up, Reality, came from David’s desire to write for his new touring band; he pursued a more “thrusty” sound with the project.
The physical box comes with an accompanying book, which includes 128 pages in the CD box and 84 in the vinyl set. It contains previously unseen notes, drawings, and handwritten lyrics from Bowie, as well as photos from a host of different photographers.
It has also been recently announced that a new David Bowie Centre will soon open in the V&A. It will include The Last Dinner Party and Nile Rodgers’s curations. It will also include “unreleased projects and newly uncovered revelations” and allow visitors to book one-on-one time with personal selections from the 90,000+ items in his archive. The David Bowie Centre will open on September 13th.
I Can’t Give Everything Away will be released on September 12th, 2025.
