Year Released: 1975 Label: RCA Year Bought: 2002 Sometimes I don't think its appreciated just how prolific David Bowie was in the '70s. 'Young Americans', released in 1975, was his seventh studio album of the decade, and came just three years after 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars'. Apart from 'Pin-Ups', it was all fantastic. I can only think of the Beatles as a comparison for quantity and quality. 'Young Americans' is the album that showed Ziggy truly was dead. Previous album 'Diamond Dogs' still had one foot in the glam camp, but this record is so far from that genre it sounds like it's been made by a completely different musician. Dubbed "plastic soul" by Bowie himself, 'Young Americans' was recorded as he was pushing on with his red peppers, milk and cocaine diet. The Thin White Duke persona would be crystallised on the next album, 'Station to Station', but the transition ...
Pretty much every day I listen to a record from my collection randomly picked by my daughter before she goes to school. This is to justify still having hundreds of CDs (and a few cassettes and vinyl)