Aladdin Sane - The Album

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Songs (Time)

All songs written by David Bowie except Let's Spend The Night Together by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

1. Watch That Man (4:25)
2. Aladdin Sane (5:06)
3. Drive In Saturday (4:29)
4. Panic In Detroit (4:25)
5. Cracked Actor (2:56)
6. Time (5:09)
7. The Prettiest Star (3:26)
8. Let's Spend The Night Together (3:03)
9. The Jean Genie (4:02)
10. Lady Grinning Soul (3:46)

Release details

Original release by RCA, April 13 1973

Rerelease on CD by RykoDisc 1990

Producer

David Bowie and Ken Scott

Musicians

David Bowie: vocals, guitar, harmonica, sax

Mick Ronson: guitar, piano and vocals

Trevor Bolder: bass

Mick Woodmansey: drums

Ken Fordham: sax

Mike Garson: piano

Juanita "Honey" Franklin, Linda Lewis, GA MacCormack: Backing vocals

Trivia

• This album marked the last time the Spiders were to play together on an album. It was the tour after this album which ended at the Hammersmith Odeon with the famous farewell phrase.
• This album featured no bonus tracks in the Rykodisc re-release because the 1973 remake of Holy Holy had been erroneously included on The Man Who Sold The World. Round and Round and the 1973 Aladdin Sane outtake of John I'm Only Dancing had already been included on the newly released Sound + Vision box set. Finally, the master for All The Young Dudes had been lost!, but eventually turned up on Rarest One Bowie. (Information courtesy of Punk Floyd).
• Chart Performance:

  Country	Date	Peak #	# of weeks
  UK	May 5, 1973	1	47
  US	?	17	22
  UK	March 6, 1982	49	24
  UK	28 July, 1990	43	1

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