Long time coming for this review. Keep listening to this album and it never strikes me as being anywhere close to my favs despite its David Bowie at his absolute prime.
What I didn’t know is that Aladdin Sane (“A Lad Insane” … get it?) was a character, a sort of evolution of Ziggy Stardust, who actually “retired” in 1973. So, Bowie was Aladdin Sane. (Get it?)
Bowie called Sane “Ziggy goes to America.” The album was very influenced from Bowie’s tour of the United States during his huge break out following the release of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. The grind got to him in a negative manner and he put it on vinyl.
Bowie's sense of glam-rock schizophrenia seems doubly weird when you consider that his brother, Terry, was actually schizophrenic. You wonder if Terry had a modicum of talent if he would have been the actual better rock star. What he would have done would have been genuine, at the very least.
Aladdin Sane turned out to be one of Bowie’s best-selling albums to date (which probably wasn’t very difficult … not like he was The Beatles).
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