History Trivia / Outside

* CareerResurrection: General consensus is that ''Outside'' is considered to be the album which ends Bowie's DorkAge (well, for those that don't consider ''Music/BlackTieWhiteNoise'' as such).

** Bowie had two sequels to this album planned: one was entitled ''2. Contamination'', and according to some sources, the third installment was going to be called ''3. Afrikaans''. Bowie claimed in early 1997 (during the promotional cycle for ''Music/{{Earthling}}'') that he'd already planned out characters for ''2. Contamination'', including some from the 17th century, and it's rumored that he even recorded some songs for it, only to shelve both records. Bowie later explained in a 2000 online chat that his main reason for doing so was because he didn't have the patience to spend "hours and hours and hours" scouring and reconfiguring the myriad of material recorded during the ''Leon'' sessions in 1994.

** Bowie had two installments planned to ''1. Outside'' entitled ''2. Contamination'' and according to some sources, the third installment was going to be called ''3. Afrikaans'', but Bowie never got around to doing them. Bowie claimed in early 1997 (during the promotional cycle for ''Music/{{Earthling}}'') that he'd already planned out characters for ''2. Contamination'', including some from the 17th century, and it's rumored that he even recorded some songs for it. According to Bowie in a 2000 online chat, the main reason why he never made those later installments was because he didn't have the patience to spend "hours and hours and hours" scouring and reconfiguring the myriad of material recorded during the ''Leon'' sessions in 1994.

** Bowie had two installments planned to ''1. Outside'' entitled ''2. Contamination'' and according to some sources, the third installment was going to be called ''3. Afrikaans'', but Bowie never got around to doing them. Bowie claimed in early 1997 (during the promotional cycle for ''Music/{{Earthling}}'') that he'd already planned out characters for ''2. Contamination'', including some from the 17th century, and it's rumored that he even recorded some songs for it.

** Bowie had two installments planned to ''1. Outside'' entitled ''2. Contamination'' and according to some sources, the third installment was going to be called ''3. Afrikaans'', but Bowie never got around to doing them. It's rumored he ''did'' record some songs for ''2. Contamination''.

** The album was initially developed as ''Leon'', a series of extended ambient suites, which was dropped due to a mix of Creator/AristaRecords finding the recordings too uncommercial and a ContentLeak of the material by bootleggers[[note]]sources vary as to whether or not the bootlegs contain the entirety of ''Leon''; Reeves Gabriels described ''Leon'' as "a three-hour improvised opus," while the bootleg is several minutes shorter than the final version of ''1. Outside'', at just over 70 minutes compared to almost 75[[/note]]. Excerpts of this iteration would be reshaped and reedited to form "Leon Takes Us Outside", the segues, and "A Small Plot of Land" on the final version of ''1. Outside''. The B-side "Nothing to Be Desired" would be the only portion of the original suites to see an official release; Bowie expressed interest in putting out the full original material, but this never came to fruition.

** Brian Eno initially proposed releasing the ''Leon'' suites in all-black packaging, a-la Music/{{Prince}}'s untitled black album. This concept was not carried over to the final version of ''1. Outside'', which instead featured a self-portrait of Bowie.

** The album was initially developed as a three-hour series of extended ambient suites, which was dropped due to a mix of Creator/AristaRecords finding the recordings too uncommercial and a ContentLeak of the material by bootleggers. Excerpts of this iteration would be reshaped and reedited to form "Leon Takes Us Outside", the segues, and "A Small Plot of Land" on the final version of ''1. Outside''. The B-side "Nothing to Be Desired" would be the only portion of the original suites to see an official release; Bowie expressed interest in putting out the full original material, but this never came to fruition.

** The album was initially developed as a three-hour series of extended ambient suites, which was dropped due to a mix of Creator/AristaRecords finding the recordings too uncommercial and a ContentLeak of the material by bootleggers. Excerpts of this iteration would be reshaped and reedited to form the segues and "A Small Plot of Land" on the final version of ''1. Outside''. The B-side "Nothing to Be Desired" would be the only portion of the original suites to see an official release; Bowie expressed interest in putting out the full original material, but this never came to fruition.

** The album was initially developed as a three-hour series of extended ambient suites; allegedly, this was the version that Bowie first presented to Creator/AristaRecords before they rejected it for its hugely uncommercial approach. Excerpts of this iteration would be reshaped and reedited to form the segues and "A Small Plot of Land" on the final version of ''1. Outside''. The B-side "Nothing to Be Desired" would be the only portion of the original suites to see an official release; Bowie expressed interest in putting out the full original material, but this never came to fruition.

** The album was initially developed as a three-hour series of extended ambient suites. Colloquially known as ''The Leon Suites'' after a bootleg release by a private collector, excerpts of them would be reshaped and reedited to form the segues and "A Small Plot of Land" on the final version of ''1. Outside''. The B-side "Nothing to Be Desired" would be the only portion of the original suites to see an official release; Bowie expressed interest in putting out the full original material, but this never came to fruition.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Bowie had two installments planned to ''1. Outside'' entitled ''2. Contamination'' and according to some sources, the third installment was going to be called ''3. Afrikaans'', but Bowie never got around to doing them. It's rumored he ''did'' record some songs for ''2. Contamination''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Bowie had two installments planned to ''1. Outside'' entitled ''2. Contamination'' and accoridng to some sources, the third installment was going to be called ''3. Afrikaans'', but Bowie never got around to doing them. It's rumored he ''did'' record some songs for ''2. Contamination''.

* BlackSheepHit: The PSB remix of "Hallo Spaceboy" would be a good candidate for Bowie, being more of a song you'd find playing in nightclubs or discos.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Bowie had two installments planned to ''1. Outside'' entitled ''2. Contamination'' and accoridng to some sources, the third installment was going to be called ''3. Afrikaans'', but Bowie never got around to doing them. It's rumored he ''did'' record some songs for ''2. Contamination''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Bowie had two installments planned to ''1. Outside'' entitled ''2. Contamination'' and accoridng to some sources, the third installment was going to be called ''3. Africaans'' [[note]]The spelling was also apparently ''Afrikaans''[[/note]], but Bowie never got around to doing them. It's rumored he ''did'' record some songs for ''2. Contamination''.

* BlackSheepHit: The PSB remix of "Hallo Spaceboy" would be a good candidate for Bowie, being more of a song you'd find playing in nightclubs or discos.