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ALBUM VPI MACHINE CLEANED - PLAYTESTED

Artist: David Bowie

Featuring: Dennis Davis, Andy Newmark, Willy Weeks, Carlos Alomar, John Lennon, Earl Slick, Michael Garson, David Sanborn, Ralph McDonald, Pablo Rosario, Larry Washington, Ava Cherry, Robin Clark, Jean Fineberg, Anthony Hinton, Jean Millington, Warren Peace, Diane Sumler, Luther Vandross, Emir Kassan,

Album Title: Young Americans

Catalogue Number: APL1-0998

Year/Record Company: 1975 RCA Victor Records

1 LP – Stereo – 12” inch vinyl record – 33 1/3

This is the authentic release & not a pirated, bootlegged or copied version. This LP album comes from my personal collection & has been playtested. It is stored under temperature & humidity regulated, smoke & pet free conditions.

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LP Condition: very good+

Shine: most

Scratches: few light

Label Wear: minimal

Label: black on orange with the “RCA” logo at the left and the “Victor” logo at right

Spindle Hole Wear: very light

Sound: very good+

Surface Noise: very light

Jacket Condition: very good

Shrink Wrap: none

Seam Wear: light

Back Ring Wear: minimal

Front Ring Wear: minimal

Ink Marks: none

Water Stains: none

Drill Holes: none

Saw Cuts: none

Stickers: none

Sleeve: original lyric sleeve, very light wear; new anti-static sleeve included also

Cover: Eric Stephen Jacobs

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie (/ˈboʊi/), was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a figure in popular music for over five decades, becoming acclaimed by critics and other musicians for his innovative work. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, his music and stagecraft significantly influencing popular music. During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at 140 million albums worldwide, made him one of the world's best-selling music artists. In the UK, he was awarded nine platinum album certifications, eleven gold and eight silver, releasing eleven number-one albums. In the US, he received five platinum and seven gold certifications. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.

Born in Brixton, South London, Bowie developed an interest in music as a child, eventually studying art, music and design before embarking on a professional career as a musician in 1963. "Space Oddity" became his first top-five entry on the UK Singles Chart after its release in July 1969. After a period of experimentation, he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with his flamboyant and androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust. The character was spearheaded by the success of his single "Starman" and album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, which won him widespread popularity. In 1975, Bowie's style shifted radically towards a sound he characterised as "plastic soul", initially alienating many of his UK devotees but garnering him his first major US crossover success with the number-one single "Fame" and the album Young Americans. In 1976, Bowie starred in the cult film The Man Who Fell to Earth, directed by Nicolas Roeg, and released Station to Station. The following year, he further confounded musical expectations with the electronic-inflected album Low (1977), the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno that would come to be known as the "Berlin Trilogy". "Heroes" (1977) and Lodger (1979) followed; each album reached the UK top five and received lasting critical praise.

After uneven commercial success in the late 1970s, Bowie had UK number ones with the 1980 single "Ashes to Ashes", its parent album Scary Monsters and Super Creeps, and "Under Pressure", a 1981 collaboration with Queen. He then reached his commercial peak in 1983 with Let's Dance, with its title track topping both UK and US charts. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Bowie continued to experiment with musical styles, including industrial and jungle. He also continued acting; his roles included Major Celliers in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), the Goblin King Jareth in Labyrinth (1986), Pontius Pilate in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Nikola Tesla in The Prestige (2006), among other film and television appearances and cameos. He stopped concert touring after 2004, and his last live performance was at a charity event in 2006. In 2013, Bowie returned from a decade-long recording hiatus with the release of The Next Day. He remained musically active until he died of liver cancer two days after the release of his final album, Blackstar (2016). (source: Wikipedia)

Song List:

Side One

Young Americans

Win

Fascination

Right

Somebody Up There Likes Me

Side Two

Across The Universe

Can You Hear Me

Fame

Sigma Sound

Electric Lady

Young Americans is the ninth studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released on 7 March 1975 by RCA Records, and his tenth album including the immediately preceding live release David Live (1974). The album marked a departure from the glam rock style of Bowie's previous albums, instead showcasing his mid-1970s interest in African American soul and R&B music.

Initial recording sessions for Young Americans took place in Philadelphia with producer Tony Visconti and a variety of musicians, including guitarist Carlos Alomar, to become one of Bowie's most frequent collaborators, and singer Luther Vandross. Bowie drew influence from the sound of "local dance halls", which were blaring with "lush strings, sliding hi-hat whispers, and swanky R&B rhythms of Philadelphia Soul." Later sessions took place in New York City, and included contributions from John Lennon. Bowie would call the album's sound "plastic soul", describing it as "the squashed remains of ethnic music as it survives in the age of Muzak rock, written and sung by a white limey".

Although Bowie was among the first English pop musicians of the era to overtly engage with black musical styles, the album was very successful in the US; the album itself reached the Top 10 in the Billboard charts, with the song "Fame" hitting the number-one spot the same year the album was released. It was generally well received by critics, and has received praise in contemporary criticism. NME ranked the album at No. 175 in its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. (source: Wikipedia)

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