Mod = Look At Me

Ivy League = Look At Me If You Want But You May Not Understand What it Is You're Seeing

Would that EMI book be 'End Of Innocence', I wonder?

Borace, I'm afraid you can't quote at the moment - although I can read your post.

Yes - End Of Innocence. A great book. A moment. Before it all got very ugly. Ends in 67/8 think. I could stare at Bowie's backcomb for hours, and his paisley tie and espadrille style lace-ups, and Julie D's arse. And I maintain - 'I Dig Everything' and 'The London Boys' are Bowie's two greatest recordings.

I think Young Americans is very over rated. Station to Station is a much stronger album.
The fact that it's Bowie and he had a cult following gives this album a bigger Rep than it deserves. It probably opened a few glam rockers ears to what was going on in contemporary Black American music though.

Why would you listen to this instead of the O'Jays I love music that was recorded at the same time?

1975 was a great year for soul music with lots of different styles competing for an audience. I always think of this period as the final years of the sixties soul singer - people like Major Harris and Joe Simon – as the funk and jazz funk bands started to gain momentum.Groups like EWF, Ohio Players and War. In fact by the time Bowie released Young Americans the game changing Brass Construction album had already been out for nearly a year.