David Bowie : Aladdin Sane

Aladdin Sane

 is the sixth

 studio album by 

English musician

 David Bowie

released by

 RCA Records on 

 April 13,1973. 

The follow-up to his

 breakthrough

 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust 

and the Spiders from Mars,

 it was the first album 

he wrote and released

 from a position of stardom.

NME editors 

Roy Carr 

and

 Charles Shaar Murray 

called the album

 "oddly unsatisfying, 

considerably less than

 the sum of the parts",

 while Bowie

 encyclopedist 

Nicholas Pegg 

describes it as

 "one of the most urgent, 

compelling and essential"

 of his releases. 

The Rolling Stone review

 by Ben Gerson 

pronounced it

 "less manic than

 The Man Who Sold The World, 

and less intimate than

 Hunky Dory, 

with none of its attacks

 of self-doubt

." The album cover featuring a

 lightning bolt across his face

 is regarded as one of 

Bowie's most iconic images

BONUS TRACKS 

Growin' Up

Port of Amsterdam

All The Young Dudes

 ( First Take )

Like a Rolling Stone

Across The Universe

Fame

My Death ( Live )

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