DAVID BOWIE - Young Americans LP Orig 1975 RCA 1st Press Orange Labels
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The first studio result of his mid-1970s obsession with soul music, ‘Young Americans’ was a breakthrough hit for David Bowie in the United States. Recording began on the first day of the sessions for the Young Americans album at Philadelphia’s Sigma Sound studios, 11 August 1974.
The music was matched by a cynical lyric sketching an Englishman’s impression of twentieth-century America, with references to McCarthyism (“Now you have been the un-American”), black repression via Rosa Parks (“Sit on your hands on a bus of survivors, blushing at all the afro-sheeners”), and Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal. Nixon had resigned the U.S. Presidency just three days before the recording session on 8 August, making Bowie’s line “Do you remember President Nixon?” hugely topical.
In addition, there’s an undercurrent of violence and despair running through the lyrics, especially the lines “would you carry a razor in case, just in case of depression?” and “ain’t there a woman I can sock on the jaw?”
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