{"id":28960,"date":"2024-03-07T18:02:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T18:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-march-7-1975-david-bowie-releases-young-americans\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T18:02:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T18:02:24","slug":"on-this-day-march-7-1975-david-bowie-releases-young-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-march-7-1975-david-bowie-releases-young-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: March 7, 1975: David Bowie releases &#8216;Young Americans&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-07\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, March 7, 1975\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>David Bowie\u00a0<\/strong>released his ninth studio album,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Young Americans<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which was considered a departure from his glam-rock style, focusing more on soul and R&amp;B influences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album, which featured backing vocals by a then-unknown singer named\u00a0<strong>Luther Vandross<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>debuted in the\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">200&#8217;s top 10 in the U.S. and remained on the chart for 51 weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album\u2019s first single, the title track, peaked at #28 on the\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> Hot 100 chart.\u00a0Its\u00a0second single, \u201cFame,\u201d became Bowie\u2019s first Hot 100 #1 and is one of four Bowie songs\u00a0to be included in the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame&#8217;s list of the\u00a0500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, March 7, 1975\u2026 David Bowie\u00a0released his ninth studio album,\u00a0Young Americans, which was considered a departure from his glam-rock style, focusing more on soul and R&amp;B influences. The album, which featured backing vocals by a then-unknown singer named\u00a0Luther Vandross,\u00a0debuted in the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0200&#8217;s top 10 in the U.S. and remained<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-march-7-1975-david-bowie-releases-young-americans\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}