The Man Who Sold the World
by David Bowie
- Type: Album
- Released: 4 November 1970
- Label: Mercury
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 41:18
- Community rating: 3.56/5 from 25 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Driven by the blistering, heavily distorted guitar work of Mick Ronson, David Bowie plunged headfirst into remarkably heavy, dark progressive rock. 'The Man Who Sold the World' is a fiercely energetic, wonderfully surreal glam-rock proto-classic, filled with deeply psychedelic, wildly eclectic science-fiction themes and intense, melodic paranoia.
Genres
Descriptors: progressive, melodic, war, hard, loud
Tracklist
- The Width of a Circle (8:12)
- All the Madmen (5:43)
- Black Country Rock (3:36)
- After All (4:00)
- Running Gun Blues (3:15)
- Saviour Machine (4:30)
- She Shook Me Cold (4:17)
- The Man Who Sold the World (4:01)
- The Supermen (3:41)
Credits
- David Bowie - primary artist, guitar, vocals, written-by
- Mick Woodmansey - drums
- Tony Visconti - electric bass, piano, guitar, producer
- Ken Scott - engineer
- Robin McBride - executive-producer
- Mick Ronson - guitar
- Ralph Mace - synthesizer [moog]