“You've Got a Habit Of Leaving” by David Bowie

It came out under the name Davy Jones: "You've Got a Habit of Leaving", issued by Parlophone on 20 August 1965, is David Bowie before the name change, on a song of his own that trades the Americanised R&B of his first two singles for the mod racket of the Who. Shel Talmy produced it from sessions in early July, with Glyn Johns engineering.

His band of the day, the Lower Third, went uncredited on the record. The credits now list Denis Taylor on guitar and backing vocals, Graham Rivens on bass, Phil Lancaster on drums and Nicky Hopkins on piano, with the singer blowing harmonica himself. Bowie came back to it decades later, re-cutting it in 2000 for the Toy project; that album was shelved, and the remake surfaced on B-sides in 2002 and 2003 before its official release in 2021.

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