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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 18. 26th July 1973

"Aladdin Sane": David Bowie (RCA Victor LSP 4852)

"Aladdin Sane": David Bowie (RCA Victor LSP 4852)

Bowie has grown up, unbeknown to us all, and the LP that clinches it is this, his latest masterpiece.

The lyrics are hard to understand, the rruisic even harder, but you still love him for it: after all he invited us all to fall in love with him on Hunky Dory and The Man Who Sold the World, but it failed so he seduced us with Ziggy Stardust and we all fell for it. Sucked in.

He's brilliant cos he works on the mind, not the body.

From Drive-In-Saturday to Time, Aladdin Sane is futuristic, delving into the unknown, showing us what's in store, all completely unrealistic, yet credible.

For Bowie, the album is unusually heavy. Listen to the phasing on Panic in Detroit for example. He's changed all right, no mistaking that. He's into something new cos he's got us twisted round his little finger and he knows we'll respond and how . . .

He's given us everything we asked for after Ziggy and more. We're still getting the hard, driving sound of Trevor Bolder's bass and Mick Ronson's lead. These guys, of course, are the - 'Spiders' who won the hearts with Bowie on Ziggy.

He hasn't failed on this album, in fact he's given us more than expected, and how it is revered, it's almost sacreligious.

If you like Bowie, you'd have bought him by now so what else is there to say?