David Bowie - 1975 - Young Americans (Remastered) (2016 HDtracks) [FLAC 192khz24bit]
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Artist: David Bowie
Title: Young Americans (Remastered) (2016 HDtracks)
Format: 08 × File, FLAC, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 24bit 192kHz (HDtracks)
Producer: Tony Visconti, Harry Maslin, David Bowie
Release Date: March 7, 1975 (2016 HDtracks)
Recorded: August 1974, November 1974 – January 1975
Label: Rhino
Genre: Rock, Classic Rock, Art Rock, Funk Rock, Space Rock, Blue-eyed Soul
Duration: 40:52
David Bowie:
Wikipedia:
David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a figure in popular music for over five decades, regarded by critics and musicians as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. 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 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 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 (198
, 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).
Young Americans:
Wikipedia:
Young Americans is the ninth studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released on 7 March 1975 by RCA Records. The album marked a departure from the glam rock style of Bowie's previous albums, showcasing his interest in soul and R&B music.
Initial recording sessions 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, including 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.
AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine:
David Bowie had dropped hints during the Diamond Dogs tour that he was moving toward R&B, but the full-blown blue-eyed soul of Young Americans came as a shock. Surrounding himself with first-rate sessionmen, Bowie comes up with a set of songs that approximate the sound of Philly soul and disco, yet remain detached from their inspirations; even at his most passionate, Bowie sounds like a commentator, as if the entire album was a genre exercise. Nevertheless, the distance doesn't hurt the album -- it gives the record its own distinctive flavor, and its plastic, robotic soul helped inform generations of synthetic British soul. What does hurt the record is a lack of strong songwriting. "Young Americans" is a masterpiece, and "Fame" has a beat funky enough that James Brown ripped it off, but only a handful of cuts ("Win," "Fascination," "Somebody Up There Likes Me"
comes close to matching their quality. As a result, Young Americans is more enjoyable as a stylistic adventure than as a substantive record.
Tracklist:
01. Young Americans (5.11)
02. Win (4.44)
03. Fascination (5.44)
04. Right (4.15)
05. Somebody Up There Likes Me (6.30)
06. Across The Universe (4.50)
07. Can You Hear Me (5.03)
08. Fame (4.15)
Personnel:
David Bowie – vocals; guitar; keyboards
Carlos Alomar – guitar
Mike Garson – piano
David Sanborn – saxophone
Willie Weeks – bass guitar (except on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Andy Newmark – drums (except on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Additional Musicians:
Larry Washington – conga
Pablo Rosario – percussion on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Ava Cherry – backing vocals
Robin Clark – backing vocals
Luther Vandross – backing vocals
John Lennon – vocals; guitar; backing vocals on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Earl Slick – guitar on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Emir Ksasan – bass guitar on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Dennis Davis – drums on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Ralph MacDonald – percussion on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Jean Fineberg – backing vocals on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Jean Millington – backing vocals on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Luther Vandross – vocal arrangements
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Artist: David Bowie
Title: Young Americans (Remastered) (2016 HDtracks)
Format: 08 × File, FLAC, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 24bit 192kHz (HDtracks)
Producer: Tony Visconti, Harry Maslin, David Bowie
Release Date: March 7, 1975 (2016 HDtracks)
Recorded: August 1974, November 1974 – January 1975
Label: Rhino
Genre: Rock, Classic Rock, Art Rock, Funk Rock, Space Rock, Blue-eyed Soul
Duration: 40:52
David Bowie:
Wikipedia:
David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a figure in popular music for over five decades, regarded by critics and musicians as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. 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 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 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 (198
, 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).Young Americans:
Wikipedia:
Young Americans is the ninth studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released on 7 March 1975 by RCA Records. The album marked a departure from the glam rock style of Bowie's previous albums, showcasing his interest in soul and R&B music.
Initial recording sessions 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, including 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.
AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine:
David Bowie had dropped hints during the Diamond Dogs tour that he was moving toward R&B, but the full-blown blue-eyed soul of Young Americans came as a shock. Surrounding himself with first-rate sessionmen, Bowie comes up with a set of songs that approximate the sound of Philly soul and disco, yet remain detached from their inspirations; even at his most passionate, Bowie sounds like a commentator, as if the entire album was a genre exercise. Nevertheless, the distance doesn't hurt the album -- it gives the record its own distinctive flavor, and its plastic, robotic soul helped inform generations of synthetic British soul. What does hurt the record is a lack of strong songwriting. "Young Americans" is a masterpiece, and "Fame" has a beat funky enough that James Brown ripped it off, but only a handful of cuts ("Win," "Fascination," "Somebody Up There Likes Me"
comes close to matching their quality. As a result, Young Americans is more enjoyable as a stylistic adventure than as a substantive record.Tracklist:
01. Young Americans (5.11)
02. Win (4.44)
03. Fascination (5.44)
04. Right (4.15)
05. Somebody Up There Likes Me (6.30)
06. Across The Universe (4.50)
07. Can You Hear Me (5.03)
08. Fame (4.15)
Personnel:
David Bowie – vocals; guitar; keyboards
Carlos Alomar – guitar
Mike Garson – piano
David Sanborn – saxophone
Willie Weeks – bass guitar (except on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Andy Newmark – drums (except on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Additional Musicians:
Larry Washington – conga
Pablo Rosario – percussion on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Ava Cherry – backing vocals
Robin Clark – backing vocals
Luther Vandross – backing vocals
John Lennon – vocals; guitar; backing vocals on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Earl Slick – guitar on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Emir Ksasan – bass guitar on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Dennis Davis – drums on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Ralph MacDonald – percussion on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Jean Fineberg – backing vocals on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Jean Millington – backing vocals on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Luther Vandross – vocal arrangements
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