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• The album not only marked the beginning of a collaboration with guitarist Mick Ronson that continued with Bowie classics like Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane, but also kicked off a decade-long string of must-have albums that stretched all the way to 1980’s Scary Monsters.

  Even though it contained no hits, The Man Who Sold the World, for most intents and purposes, was the beginning of David Bowie’s classic period. Working with guitarist Mick Ronson and producer Tony Visconti for the second time Bowie developed a tight, twisted heavy guitar rock that appears simple on the surface but sounds more gnarled upon each listen.
  The mix is off-center, with the fuzz-bass dominating the compressed, razor-thin guitars and Bowie’s strangled, affected voice. The sound of The Man Who Sold the World is odd, but the music its