Aladdin Sane [Remaster]

Performer: David Bowie
Artist: Mick Ronson; Mike Garson
Engineer: Ken Scott; Mick Ronson; Mike Moran; Mick Moran; Ken Scott; Mike Moran
Producer: David Bowie; Ken Scott; David Bowie; Ken Scott
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Personnel: David Bowie (vocals, guitar, harmonica, saxophone, keyboards); David Bowie; Mick Ronson (vocals, guitar, piano, background vocals); Mac Cormack (vocals, background vocals); Trevor Bolder (bass instrument); Mike Woodsmansey, Mick "Woody" Woodmansey (drums); Ken Fordham (flute, saxophone); Mike Garson (piano); Linda Lewis, Juanita "Honey" Franklin, G A MacCormack (background vocals). Audio Mixers: Ken Scott; Mick Ronson. Audio Remasterers: Nigel Reeve; Peter Mew. Audio Remixer: Dr. Toby Mountain. Recording information: RCA Studios, London, England (1972); RCA Studios, Nashville, TN (1972); Trident Studios, London, England (1972). Photographer: Sukita. Unknown Contributor Role: L. Arrangers: David Bowie; Mick Ronson. It's no surprise that ALADDIN SANE and PIN UPS came out in the same year. Each drip with the seedy sexuality of London's late '60s sexual revolution. Yet, while PIN UPS was a mid-'60s sampling of influences--a glorified cover album--ALADDIN SANE was all Bowie. Stepping out of the Ziggy Stardust shadow (Bowie would announce his temporary retirement from the stage later that year), ALADDIN SANE was the aftermath of Ziggy's visit, a brutal memoir of the drugs, sex and glamour that a young starlet could find at the time. "Forget that I'm 50/'Cause you just got paid," Bowie croons, adopting the persona of a "Cracked Actor," and one wonders how far stardom had pushed Bowie. Was he indeed a lad insane? The macho guitar rave-ups are a brilliant spewing of the PIN UPS influences. Mick Ronson's searing guitar is beautiful trash, made of Stonesy grind and dangerous Kinks-like riffing. Bowie is at an evocative peak, his vocals at once voyeuristic and enticing. His cover of "Let's Spend The Night Together" sends an unwashed shiver up the back, and his youthful exuberance on "Panic In Detroit" is charmingly believable. ALADDIN SANE showed that Bowie was an artist with staying power that reached beyond his previous Martian Cult status.

The mercurial David Bowie is the original pop chameleon. He's been everything from inoffensive pop singer to glam icon to white soul man to art-rocker and more in the course of his long, prolific career. Although Bowie's first hit was 1969's "Space Oddity," he didn't arrive as a full-formed pop sensation until he unveiled his Ziggy Stardust persona in 1972. After retiring Ziggy in 1974, Bowie moved from dystopian rock to Philly soul to cutting-edge experimental pop, all within the span of three years. In the following decades, Bowie has regularly released albums and starred in movies. Perhaps the most startling thing is that he's been at the forefront of so many musical movements, inspiring a slew of genres spearheaded by countless Bowie disciples.

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