David Bowie's 9th studio album dropped on this day in 1975. Young Americans marked David's move from the Ziggy Stardust glam phase of his career into one that embraced more rhythmic and soulful songs. The title song, recorded at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia using Luther Vandross producer Tony Visconti, and Fame, the song that Bowie and John Lennon worked on together on at Electric Lady Studios in New York, propelled the album into the top 10. David Sanborn plays sax on the title track and Sly and the Family Stone's Andy Newmark is featured on drums throughout the album.
Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on March 7 include...
1945 Love's Arthur Lee is born.
1946 Peter Wolf of the J. Geils Band is born.
1946 Procol Harum's Matthew Fisher is born.
1969 The Who release Pinball Wizard in the UK.
1969 Genesis releases From Genesis to Revelation.
1973 Bruce Springsteen is introduced during a Columbia records New Artist showcase in a New York City club. John Hammond, the man who signed him, has a heart attack.
1985 David Crosby gets jailed in Texas for parole violation for leaving rehab.
1987 The first five Beatles albums get released as CDs.
1993 Black Crowes cancel a Louisville concert after a crew member gets into an altercation with an undercover cop. 2006 David Gilmour releases On An Island.
2022 Bruce Springsteen speaks at a press conference announcing that the Freehold, NJ Firehouse will open an exhibit space that will display memorabilia items related too him in 2024. Springsteen's archives have since been entrusted to Monmouth University and will eventually be housed in a building on the New Jersey campus the Long Branch, NJ university is raising $45 million to build.
