Letter to Hermione

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“Letter to Hermione”
Song by David Bowie
Album David Bowie (aka "Space Oddity")
Released 4 November 1969
Length 2:28
Label Philips
Writer David Bowie
Producer Tony Visconti
David Bowie (aka "Space Oddity") track listing

Side 1

  1. "Space Oddity"
  2. "Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed"
  3. "Don't Sit Down"
  4. "Letter to Hermione"
  5. "Cygnet Committee"

Side 2

  1. "Janine"
  2. "An Occasional Dream"
  3. "Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud"
  4. "God Knows I'm Good"
  5. "Memory of a Free Festival"

"Letter to Hermione" is a song written by David Bowie in 1969 for the album Space Oddity. This ballad is a love letter to Hermione Farthingale, who Bowie met through Lindsay Kemp while mime dancing. She became Bowie's girlfriend and they lived together for a short while in London in 1968. In early 1969 she abandoned Bowie for Stephen Reinhardt, an American musician and dancer she met on the film "Song of Norway."

An early name for the song was "I’m Not Quite". Bowie recorded a demo version of the song with this name together with John Hutchinson in February 1969.

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