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

5. The Man Who Sold The World (1970)

The album that marked the transition in progress from folkie-inspired, borderline hippiedom into full on glamorama.

The arrival of Mick Ronson has much to do with that. His Zep-worthy guitar pyrotechnics light up the album and point the way to the glam god status that Bowie would acquire with the release of Ziggy. Producer, Tony Visconti, also plays bass, but it’s not the production but the quality of the music that moved Bowie into the big-leagues-in waiting status.

Ronson simply blows the roof off every time he unleashes that iconic stripped-back Les Paul, and was a massively important influence in moving Bowie away from cult success into mainstream rock and roll legend.

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