David Bowie – The Man Who Sold the World Vinyl

‘The Man Who Sold the World’ was the third studio album by David Bowie, originally released in the USA (via Mercury Records) in November 1970, and in April 1971 in the United Kingdom.

‘The Man Who Sold the World’ was the first to include the nucleus of what would become the “Spiders from Mars,” the backing band made famous by ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars’ album in 1972.

The album is a departure from the largely acoustic/folk music of Bowie’s sophomore album, ‘David Bowie/Space Oddity,’ with ‘The Man Who Sold the World’ displaying a more hard rock edge. The album has been claimed to have been influenced by the Glam Rock transition of Marc Bolan earlier that year.