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The Man Who Sold the World (album)
''The Man Who Sold the World'' is the third studio album by English rock artist David Bowie. It was originally released in the United States by Mercury Records in November 1970, and in April 1971 in the United Kingdom. The album was Bowie's first with the nucleus of what would become the "Spiders from Mars", the backing band made famous by ''The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars'' in 1972. Though author David Buckley has described Bowie's previous record ''David Bowie (Space Oddity)'' as "the first Bowie album proper",〔David Buckley (1999). ''Strange Fascination – David Bowie: The Definitive Story'': p. 78.〕 ''NME'' critics Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray have said of ''The Man Who Sold the World'', "this is where the story ''really'' starts".〔Roy Carr & Charles Shaar Murray (1981). ''Bowie: An Illustrated Record'': pp. 37–38.〕 Departing from the folk music of Bowie's second album, ''The Man Who Sold the World'' is a hard rock and heavy metal album. It has been claimed that this album's release marks the birth of glam rock.〔.〕
== Writing and recording ==
The album was written and rehearsed at David Bowie's home in Haddon Hall, Beckenham, an Edwardian mansion converted to a block of flats that was described by one visitor as having an ambience "like Dracula's living room".〔Martin Aston (2007). "Scary Monster", ''MOJO 60 Years of Bowie'': p. 24.〕 As Bowie was preoccupied with his new wife Angie at the time, the music was largely arranged by guitarist Mick Ronson and bassist/producer Tony Visconti.〔Nicholas Pegg (2000). ''The Complete David Bowie'': pp. 260–265.〕 Although Bowie is officially credited as the composer of all music on the album, biographers such as Peter Doggett have marshaled evidence to the contrary, quoting Visconti saying "the songs were written by all four of us. We'd jam in a basement, and Bowie would just say whether he liked them or not." In Doggett's narrative, "The band (sometimes with Bowie contributing guitar, sometimes not) would record an instrumental track, which might or might not be based upon an original Bowie idea. Then, at the last possible moment, Bowie would reluctantly uncurl himself from the sofa on which he was lounging with his wife, and dash off a set of lyrics."〔Peter Doggett, ''The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s''. HarperCollins, 2012.〕
Visconti was annoyed by Bowie's preoccupation with married life during the recording of ''The Man Who Sold the World'', but he still rated it as his best work with Bowie until 1980's ''Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)''.〔David Buckley (1999). ''op. cit.'' pp. 99–105.〕 Bowie is quoted in an interview in 1998 as saying "I really did object to the impression that I did not write the songs on ''The Man Who Sold the World''. You only have to check out the chord changes. No-one writes chord changes like that". "The Width of a Circle" and "The Supermen", however, were already in existence to name two before the sessions began. Ralph Mace played a Moog modular synthesizer borrowed from George Harrison; Mace was a 40-year-old concert pianist who was also head of the Classical music department at Mercury Records.
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