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As David Bowie’s ‘Young Americans’ Turns 50, Guitarist Carlos Alomar Recalls the Making of the Classic Album: ‘We Had Never Heard This Soulful David Before’
For the 50th anniversary of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' album, guitarist Carlos Alomar talks about the making of the soul-rock classic.
Working too with RCA as a member of the Main Ingredient, Alomar got a call for a session with Scottish pop singer Lulu, who was then looking to change her goody-two-shoes-image by covering “The Man Who Sold the World,” one of Bowie’s more sinister songs at the time. “I explained to David how MSFB had just recorded their own hit with the ‘Soul Train Theme,’ and now would suddenly be reduced to his backing band,” says Alomar, who then offered his services to find like-minded musicians to go with the players that Bowie had in place. Additionally bringing his wife, Robin Clark, to the friendly Philly sessions, Sigma, a small room mic-ed for “seductive” maximum impact, felt like a gathering place for “an army of comrades, a family,” with Bowie as the permissive father figure.
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