David Bowie: Young Americans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVTHuo18ngQ Have you heard the news today , oh boy ? Good , because I did n’t yesterday — February 21 was the anniversary of the tone ending of David Bowie ’s Young Americans , the first single of the album of the same name . The year was 1975 . Young Americans was one of Bowie ’s many reinventions , part with his previous sound and creating a newfangled style that he call plastic soul — a sound full of “ lush string , slide hi - hat whispering , and swank R&B speech rhythm of Philadelphia Soul [ … ] the squashed remain of ethnic euphony as it survives in the age of Muzak rock , write and whistle by a snowy limey , ” as described by Lauren Smith for AV Club ....