Every David Bowie Album Ranked Worst To Best (By Guitar Power)

Bowie’s most commercially successful album, it suffers from a dated production that forever nails it to the ‘80s. Texas blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan is the jewel in this set, bringing Albert King inspired licks to the decidedly non-blues collection that Bowie had assembled – or as King himself joked to Stevie Ray, ‘I heard you stole all my stuff’.

There is an unofficial release of SRV rehearsing with Bowie which shows how great this album could have been. It is striking that people who came to Bowie via ‘Let’s Dance’ are rarely fans of the glam years, which tells its own story re how Bowie shook off rock’n’roll for many years until the Tin Machine age.