Young Americans Songwriting Credits by David Bowie

David Bowie's Young Americans, released March 7, 1975 on RCA Records, marks his most dramatic stylistic pivot, abandoning glam rock entirely for Philadelphia soul, funk, and R&B, recorded at Sigma Sound Studios with some of the city's top session musicians. Bowie wrote or co-wrote seven of the eight tracks, with the sole exception being the John Lennon co-written and co-performed 'Fame,' which became Bowie's first US number-one single. 'Young Americans' itself, featuring Luther Vandross on backing vocals, is one of Bowie's most ironic and layered social commentaries, examining American aspirations through a British outsider's eyes. Carlos Alomar, who co-wrote 'Fame' and 'Fascination' with Bowie, became a key long-term collaborator from this album forward. The record reached the top five in both the US and UK, and its blue-eyed soul production style (what Bowie dubbed 'plastic soul') broadened his commercial reach while demonstrating his ability to completely inhabit a genre.