David Bowie's Young Americans is one of the best albums of the 1970s. Here's why its album artwork isn't what Bowie wanted it to be. by Matthew Trzcinski. Published on March 2, 2020.

When Carlos Alomar talks about the 50th anniversary of “Young Americans” — David Bowie’s self-defined ode to “plastic soul,” released March 7, 1975, and re-released today by Rhino ...

A lot of American rock critics in the 1970s didn’t trust David Bowie. They acknowledged his talent, and respected his hits, but didn’t dig the theatrics or the post-modernism.

Young Americans (1975), then, was the first time that Bowie showed the true artistic bravery that would come to define his career, risking it all to follow his heart into soul.“It was in our ...

The limited-edition release on "brick and mortar" gold-colored vinyl.David Bowie's Young Americans to Receive 45th Anniversary Vinyl Reissue Alex Young ...

Young Americans was one of Bowie’s many reinventions, breaking with his previous sound and creating a new style that he called plastic soul—a sound full of “lush strings, ...

I yawned when The Rolling Stones announced it was going back out on the road for a tour of stadiums around North America in May, June and July. After seeing The Stones play two stadiums gigs in ...

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Bowie then accumulated a series of musicians including R&B legend Luther Vandross later that year to record much of “Young Americans” at Sigma Sound Studios on N 12th Street in Philadelphia.

The medley began with “Young Americans,” Bowie’s great soul single from earlier in the year (it had hit Number 28, only his second top-forty hit in the United States at that point).

More than 40 years ago, David Bowie came to Philadelphia to record his album “Young Americans.” As the music world mourns the death of the superstar from cancer just after his 69th birthday, a few are ...

When Carlos Alomar talks about the 50th anniversary of “Young Americans” — David Bowie’s self-defined ode to “plastic soul,” released March 7, 1975, and re-released today by Rhino ...