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Aladdin Sane

Aladdin Sane
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Studio album by David Bowie
Released 13 April 1973 (1973-04-13)
Recorded 6 October 1972, 4–11 December 1972, c. 18–24 January 1973
Studio Trident Studios, London and RCA Studios, New York and Nashville
Genre
Length 40:47
Label RCA
Producer
David Bowie chronology
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
(1972)
Aladdin Sane
(1973)
Pin Ups
(1973)
Singles from Aladdin Sane
  1. "The Jean Genie"
    Released: 24 November 1972
  2. "Drive-In Saturday"
    Released: 6 April 1973
  3. "Time"
    Released: 13 April 1973
  4. "Let's Spend the Night Together"
    Released: July 1973
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4.5/5 stars
Blender 4/5 stars
Chicago Tribune 4/4 stars
Christgau's Record Guide B+
Encyclopedia of Popular Music 4/5 stars
Mojo 5/5 stars
Pitchfork Media 9.0/10
Q 4/5 stars
Rolling Stone 4/5 stars
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 5/5 stars

Aladdin Sane is the sixth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released by RCA Records on 13 April 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 from a position of stardom.

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 Magazine 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."

In 2003, the album was ranked among six Bowie entries on Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time (at #277) and was later ranked No. 77 on Pitchfork Media's list of the top 100 albums of the 1970s.

The name of the album is a pun on "A Lad Insane". An early variation was "Love Aladdin Vein", which David Bowie dropped partly because of its drug connotations. Although technically a new Bowie 'character', Aladdin Sane was essentially a development of Ziggy Stardust in his appearance and persona, as evidenced on the cover by Brian Duffy and in Bowie's live performances throughout 1973 that culminated in Ziggy's 'retirement' at the Hammersmith Odeon in July that year. Lacking the thematic flow found on its predecessor,Aladdin Sane was described by Bowie himself as simply "Ziggy goes to America"; most of the tracks were observations he composed on the road during his 1972 US tour, which accounted for the place names following each song title on the original record labels. Biographer Christopher Sandford believed the album showed that Bowie "was simultaneously appalled and fixated by America".


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