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The singer Bob Geldof said: "Young Americans is a fantastic soul record, but soul with something else going on. There's an edginess to it." [1] Young Americans was voted Bowie's ninth best album in a 2013 readers' poll for Rolling Stone. The magazine argued that its style shift helped introduce Bowie to a wider audience. [125]
Following Bowie's death in 2016, Rolling Stone listed "Young Americans" as one of Bowie's 30 essential songs. [3] The song has also appeared on lists compiling Bowie's best songs by The Telegraph , [ 53 ] NME (4), [ 54 ] The Guardian and Mojo (7), [ 51 ] [ 55 ] Consequence of Sound (13) and Uncut (17).
Young Americans was a commercial success in both the US and the UK and yielded Bowie's first US number one, "Fame", a collaboration with John Lennon. [90] A re-issue of the 1969 single "Space Oddity" became Bowie's first number-one hit in the UK a few months after "Fame" achieved the same in the US. [91]
The charisma and vitality of David Bowie was perfectly captured the last ever photo taken of the music legend.. The beautiful picture was posted on Bowie's official Instagram page on Friday, Jan ...
During his six-decade career, Sanborn released 25 albums, toured with British superstar Bowie, and recorded the renowned solo on Bowie’s 1975 album Young Americans. The official X account for ...
"Right" is a song by the English musician David Bowie from his album Young Americans, released on 7 March 1975. Recorded on 14–18 August and 20–24 November 1974 at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia, [2] "Right" is the last of four tracks on side one of Young Americans, [3] and the B-side of the single "Fame", released in August 1975.
The set comes with a hardcover book that includes photos from Eric Stephen Jacobs, Tom Kelley, backup singer Geoffrey MacCormack, Terry O'Neill, Steve Schapiro, and more, as well as liner notes penned by Bowie’s close collaborators Tony Visconti and Harry Maslin and a handwritten note from Bowie about The Gouster. [15]
The Thin White Duke was the persona and character adopted by the English musician David Bowie for public appearances in the mid-1970s. Though the Duke is primarily identified with Bowie's 1976 album Station to Station and is mentioned by name in the title track, he had first begun to adopt aspects of the persona during the tour supporting his Young Americans album in late 1974.