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David Bowie: Young Americans (RCA RS 1006)

Ray Fox-Cumming, Record Mirror, 15 March 1975

IT CONTAINS eight tracks and 40 minutes 6 seconds of music, which is all that should be said until you've given it a lot of plays. Bowie albums invariably have a way of creeping up a and seducing you long after you thought you'd given them a firm and final no. With this one however, after six hearings I'm still holding out on an awful lot.

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