DAVID BOWIE Scored His First No. 1 Hit In The USA This Day 50 Years Ago With ‘FAME’

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20 September 2025

Musical genius DAVID BOWIE  (8 Jan 1947 – 10 Jan 2016) scored
his first No. 1 single in the US with FAME. It topped the charts on
20 September 1975, today 50 years ago.

The song was written by Bowie, Carlos Alomar and John Lennon.

It featured on his LP Young Americans.

Fame, what you like is in the limo
Fame, what you get is no tomorrow
Fame, what you need you have to borrow Fame
Fame, it’s mine, it’s mine, it’s just his line
To bind your time, it drives you to crime… 

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DAVID BOWIE Released His 9th Longplayer ‘YOUNG AMERICANS’ 50 Years Ago

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8 March 2025

The late musical genius DAVID BOWIE released
his 9th LP YOUNG AMERICANS on 7 March 1975,
50 years ago.

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“. It was his breakthrough album in
the US hitting #9. In the UK it peaked at #2.


The Independent
(English newspaper): “Those rock historians who dismiss the album as a white elephant among Bowie’s 1970s output underestimate its significance. Because this was Bowie’s first display of true fearlessness, rock’s most celebrated shape-shifter attempting his first real post-fame metamorphosis.”

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DAVID BOWIE Released Single ‘YOUNG AMERICANS’ This Day 50 Years Ago

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21 February 2025

Late genius DAVID BOWIE released the title track of
his 9th LP YOUNG AMERICANS, this day 50 years ago
on 21 February 1975.

The song featured contributions from then-unknown soul singer Luther Vandross,
who did the backing vocal arrangement. The music was influenced by Philadelphia soul
and R&B, the song presents an Englishman‘s impressionist portrait of America at the time, featuring various characters and allusions to American totems and events.

It peaked at #18 in the UK and #28.

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Artist: BOB DYLAN
Album: Blood On The Tracks

His fifteenth and one of his most
memorable LPs.

All Music: “This is hardly nostalgia, this is the sound of an artist returning to his strengths, what feels most familiar, as he accepts a traumatic situation, namely the breakdown of his marriage. This is an album alternately bitter, sorrowful, regretful, and peaceful, easily the closest he ever came to wearing his emotions on his sleeve.”

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Band: FLEETWOOD MAC
Album: Fleetwood Mac
Their 10th.

Pitchfork said: “Though far from their debut, the band’s 1975 self-titled album felt like a debut: a pop-rock statement and the unexpected intersection of two parallel spheres that offered something genuinely new.”

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Artist: NEIL YOUNG
Album: Tonight’s The Night
His sixth LP.

The record was dedicated to Danny Whitten, guitarist of Crazy Horse,
who wrote the song ‘I Don’t Want To Talk About It’ made famous by Rod
Stewart
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Rolling Stone wrote: “Tonight’s the Night finds Neil Young on his knees at the top of the heap, struggling to get back to his feet… Crying over the death of his real and imagined friends, Neil Young seems at once heroic and mock heroic, brave and absurd. Like the best of both, he leaves us as he found us, ravaged but rocking.”

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Artist: PATTI SMITH
Album: Horses
Her stunning debut.

Rolling Stone wrote: “Patti Smith’s debut album was a declaration of committed mutiny,
a statement of faith in the transfigurative powers of rock & roll. Horses made her the queen
of punk before it even really existed, but Smith cared more for the poetry in rock.”

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Band: PINK FLOYD
Album: Wish You Were Here
9th longplayer, dedicated to the late
flamboyant co-founder Syd Barrett.

The Village Voice wrote: “The music is not only simple and attractive, with the synthesizer used mostly for texture and the guitar breaks for comment, but it actually achieves some of
he symphonic dignity (and cross-referencing) that The Dark Side of the Moon simulated so ponderously.”

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Band: LED ZEPPELIN
Album: Physical Graffiti
Zep‘s 6th, a double one.

Billboard wrote: “The LP is a tour de force through a number of musical
styles, from straight rock to blues to folky acoustic to orchestral sounds.”

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Band: NEU!
Album: Neu!
3rd one.

AllMusic: “This is music not only for traveling, from one place to the
next, but also for disappearance into the ether at a steady pace.”

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Artist: BRIAN ENO
Album: Another Green World
His third.

Pitchfork: “Brian Eno has done everything from producing huge pop stars to creating tiny art installations to touring with rock bands to inventing ambient music. Another Green World remains his definitive album.”

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Band: QUEEN
Album: A Night At The Opera
Their majestic 4th.

MOJO wrote: “An imperial extravaganza, a cornucopia. A band of hungrily
competitive individualists on a big roll of friendship and delight.”

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Artist: DAVID BOWIE
Album: Young Americans
9th longplayer.

Rolling Stone: “The music works best when Bowie combines his renewed interest in soul
with his knowledge of English pop, rather than opting entirely for one or the other.”

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