Aladdin Sane

Aladdin Sane was the first album with Mike Garson at the keyboards, thing that gave the album a special taste, a special colour that aims to what David Bowie’s music would look like in 1975’s album Young Americans. In Paolo Hewitt’s book, “David Bowie: life and discography”, appears a fragment of an interview that David made in 1973 where he talked about the music in Aladdin Sane:

Part of Aladdin Sane’s music is strange, weird. I have been influenced by some of the best and most advanced musicians of jazz, such as Mike Garson or Keith Tippett. Mike is playing with The Spiders, and the music that he develops goes from a basic theme, on which I and the musicians improvise. I love glam rock, but just by itself leaves me few options.