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Aladdin Sane
''Aladdin Sane'' is the sixth album by David Bowie, released by RCA Records in 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 as a bona fide rock star.
''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'' 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."〔 It was one of six Bowie entries in ''Rolling Stones list of the 500 greatest albums of all time (at #277) and ranked No. 77 on Pitchfork Media's list of the top 100 albums of the 1970s.
=="Ziggy goes to America"==
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,〔Kris Needs (1983) ''Bowie: A Celebration'': p.29〕 ''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 sleeve.〔 Biographer Christopher Sandford believed the album showed that Bowie "was simultaneously appalled and fixated by America".〔Christopher Sandford (1996, 1997). ''Loving the Alien'': p.109〕
His mixed feelings about the journey stemmed, in Bowie's words, from "wanting to be up on the stage performing my songs, but on the other hand not really wanting to be on those buses with all those strange people... So ''Aladdin Sane'' was split down the middle."〔Pegg, Nicholas (2006). The Complete David Bowie (4th ed.). London: Reynolds & Hearn Ltd. pp. 286. ISBN 1-905287-15-1.〕 This kind of "schizophrenia", as Bowie described it, was conveyed on the cover by his makeup, where a lightning bolt represents the duality of mind, although he would later tell friends that the "lad insane" of the album's title track was inspired by his brother Terry, who had been diagnosed as a schizophrenic.〔〔Pegg, 2006, pp.19 and 286.〕〔(Seventies' Greatest Album Covers: Aladdin Sane ). Retrieved on 2 July 2011.〕 Bowie himself came up with the idea of the lightning bolt over his face, but said the teardrop was Brian Duffy's idea: "He () put on that afterward, just popped it in there. I thought it was rather sweet."
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