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A Strong Breeze Could Blow It Away
Aladdin Sane is okay in spite of some other mistakes which indicate Bowie has become a knowing victim of his own hype.
DAVID BOWIE Aladdin San* IBCA)
On �Drive-In Saturday,� a song from the new David Bowie album, a space-age couple flirt and �try and get it on like once before/ When people stared in Jagger�s eyes and scored.� Elsewhere there is an actual Rolling Stones song, �Let�s Spend the Night Together,� camped up for all its offensive worth. The spoken finale plea included just in case you�re still listening goes: �They said we were too young/ Our kinda love was no fun...� This is the cut you�ll love to hate capse this is the performance Bowie�ll never live down. So warped a perspective does it present,' one�s tempted to say this entire album would better have been left below ground, and David Bowie with it. Not only has �the next Dylan?� overstepped his mark, miscalculated his audience, and revealed himself to be only another nut in the big fruitcake — he has blasphemed The Rolling Stones, for which there is no excuse.