10 Hard Rock Albums Everyone Takes For Granted
6. The Man Who Sold the World - David Bowie
As the hard rock world branched out of the hippy era of music, we also started to get a sense of what the hard rock uniform would look like. If you were following the lead of the likes of Sabbath and Zeppelin, you would either find yourself donning the traditional jeans and T-shirt role or doing almost everything you could to look like some sort of grand wizard behind your instrument. So...how the hell did David Bowie find himself in the mix?
Along with his trademark album Space Oddity setting up his pension for strange music, Bowie's third LP the Man Who Sold the World showed him dipping his toes in some more hard rock territory than he had ever done before. Hooking up with Mick Ronson for the first time in his career, Bowie feels a lot more in his element with this kind of feral instrumentation backing him, going from the bluesy doom of Black Country Rock to the harsh excuse for a ballad on the title track.
Like all genres though, Bowie wasn't really meant to stay in this lane for long, quickly becoming the progenitor of glam rock with the invention of Ziggy Stardust just a few years later. For a brief moment though, this was still one hell of a good time from the Thin White Duke's vaults.