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    Young Americans - Wikipedia

    • Young Americans is the ninth studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released on 7 March 1975 through RCA Records. A departure from the glam rock style of previous albums, the record showcased Bowie's interest in soul and R&B. Music critics have described the sound as blue-eyed soul; Bowie himself labelled the album's sound "plastic soul". … See more

    Background and development

    David Bowie released his eighth studio album Diamond Dogs in May 1974. His final album in the glam rock genre, it contained two songs, "Rock 'n' Roll with Me" and "1984", that exhibit elements of funk and soul, which predi… See more

    Recording history

    For the backing band, Bowie wanted to hire MFSB ("Mother Father Sister Brother"), Sigma Sound's house band of over 30 session musicians. According to Sigma Sound engineer Dirk Devlin, who worked on the earli… See more

    Songs

    Young Americans presented a new musical direction for Bowie, exploring blue-eyed soul and R&B. Bowie himself labelled its sound "plastic soul", or, in the words of the author Benoît Clerc, "a pale synthetic derivative of authentic s… See more

    Did Stevie Wonder meet Ava Cherry?
    Stevie Wonder performed at Carnegie Hall supported by The Main Ingredient, which featured future Bowie collaborators Carlos Alomar and Emir Ksasan. That night Bowie met singer/model Ava Cherry. Ava Cherry (2016): I was living in New York at that time and working in a nightclub called Genesis.
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