"Young Americans", fifty years of the album with which David Bowie conquered the United States

Juan Aguzzi In 1975, the super creative singer-songwriter David Bowie took a turn in his musical proposal that involved entering a rhythmic universe substantially different from the one that moved. It was a kind of transition from glam – already positioned as the one that gave that subgenre the best deployment – to something that Bowie himself called "plastic soul", that is, a new musical instance that seemed to get rid of his usual practice and…

David Bowie was many things: a sound pioneer, a cultural provocateur, an impossible figure to box. From his emergence as Ziggy Stardust to his stylistic transformations in the 80s and 90s, the British artist always seemed to move on his own impulses, alien to the expectations of the industry, the public or the critics. However, he once did something just because his mother asked him to. The story occurred in 1977, when Bowie was invited to parti…