David Bowie "Aladdin Sane" LP LSP-4852 1973 RCA Records
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Description
Features
Released
13 April 1973
Recorded
6 October 1972, 3 December 1972 – 24 January 1973
Studio Trident Studios, London and RCA Studios, New York and Nashville
Genre
Glam rock hard rock
Length
40:47
Label
RCA Records
Producer
Ken Scott and David Bowie
"Aladdin Sane" is the sixth album by David Bowie, released by RCA Records in 1973. The follow-up to his breakthrough The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, it was the first album he wrote and released as a bona fide rock star.
NME editors Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray called the album "oddly unsatisfying, considerably less than the sum of the parts", while Bowie encyclopedist Nicholas Pegg describes it as "one of the most urgent, compelling and essential" of his releases.
The Rolling Stone review by Ben Gerson pronounced it "less manic than The Man Who Sold The World, and less intimate than Hunky Dory, with none of its attacks of self-doubt."
It was one of six Bowie entries in Rolling Stones list of the 500 greatest albums of all time (at #277) and ranked No. 77 on Pitchfork Media's list of the top 100 albums of the 1970s.
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