Stay ’97 joins The Man Who Sold The World (ChangesNowBowie Version) and I Can’t Read ’97, all of which will be featured on Is It Any Wonder? EP.
Stay first appeared on Bowie’s 1976 album Station To Station. Per a press release, Bowie conceived Stay ’97 during the pre-rehearsals for his Earthling tour in Dublin as he, Mark Plati, and Reeves Gabrels prepped the backing and sequencer tracks before the rest of the band arrived.
Bowie wanted to update several tracks from his back catalog, so they fit alongside his Outside/Earthling songs.
Undoubtedly the entire track screams the nineties but in an incredible way. Beginning with laser-sharp synths, barbed guitar riffs, and the pounding drum beat gives it new life.
The new version of Stay ’97 was eventually recorded at Right Track Recordings in New York in May/June of 1997. Listen to the nineties version below.
