Aladdin Sane, 50 years on: A deep dive inside Bowie's great album
A detail from the Aladdin Sane album cover by David Bowie. (Album picture by Brian Duffy)
With his flame-red hair, Kabuki-influenced stage clothes and make-up enhanced by shaved eyebrows David Bowie emerged as a new kind of pop star in the summer of 1972.
By the autumn, Aladdin Sane, a schizophrenic tendril of his Ziggy Stardust character, was being developed while touring America. Featuring such tracks as ‘The Jean Genie’ and ‘Drive-In Saturday’, the album of the same name delivered a much harder sound when it was released on April 20, 1973.
