The CD box set 'I Can't Give Everything Away' is set for release on the 12th of September 2025, it is the sixth and final box set in a series of reissues of Bowie's legendary albums. The series includes 'Five Years', 'Who Can I Be Now?', 'A New Career In Town', 'Loving The Alien', and 'Brilliant Adventure'.
'I Can't Give You Everything' includes remastered versions of Heathens, Reality, The Next Day and Blackstar. The box set features 2010's 'Reality Tour' in remastered and resequenced form and an unreleased live recording from 2002. Mini-vinyls of the original albums will be included with the CD box set. The CD's will be gold rather than the standard silver, they will also include handwritten notes and lyrics from Bowie aswell as drawings and photographs. The box set also comes in a vinyl version which will contain all of the same content, digital streaming will also be available. Although the vinyl and digital versions will not include the added notes and lyrics.
The official announcement for the final box set was released by Bowie's Twitter account, where they gave some back story to each album that will be featured. The box set includes Heathen's, the first album that Bowie and Visconti had worked on together in 22 years. Visconti recalls of the time he spent with Bowie in Berlin, he states “There was no control room. The console was at one end of the studio and the band was placed at the other end. The acoustics were quite live and from my experience of making “Heroes” at Hansa Studios in Berlin, in the huge Grand Hall (known as Meistersaal recording hall), I wanted to make these acoustics work for us.” The vinyl version of this album is pressed in transparent blue, to echoe its original release.
He also discloses that the recordings for The Next Day happened in secret after almost a decade away from the studio, Visconti says "We vowed not to tell a soul that David and we were making a new album – and that even included our domestic partners. His two-fold purpose was to write and create without pressure from the outside, plus he wanted its release to be a complete surprise. It all worked out great, except when he was spotted a few times walking to and from The Magic Shop studio in Noho, Manhattan, raising quizzical eyebrows. I was stopped once by a fan who recognised me and asked, “Is David Bowie making a new album?” I said, “Absolutely not!” Later, when we had rough mixes of our efforts, I was walking around Manhattan with a big smile on my face. No one could possibly know that I was listening to new Bowie songs on my earbuds."
The box set is named after the closing track on Blackstar, Bowie's final studio album, which was released just days before he passed in 2016. The world only had two days to digest this album before the news of his death, the album makes hints to his ill health and fans consider this album as Bowie's farewell. Although Bowie referenced mortality numerous times in his music, fans believe that Blackstar showcases Bowie tackling his own mortality. The official release for the box set states that each of the tracks on Blackstar were recorded in one day, “The first song for the album began with “’Tis a Pity She Was a Whore,” on 7th January. With a couple of rehearsals with David singing in the isolation booth, we were ready to go. Take one was perfect. We told Donny the take was fabulous. He thanked us and asked, “What’s the next song?” Visconti recalled.
The box set includes two live albums, two EP's and a new compilation. Fans have been advised to "Stay tuned for pre-order links".
