Just Turn On With Me
o be played at maximum volume.” So went the listening instructions appearing in all caps near the bottom left of the back cover of David Bowie’s June 1972 career-defining dystopian spaceglam saga, . Though turning one’s volume knob way past 11 might actually induce the needle to jump the groove as soon as Bowie screams “you’re not alone!” in the back half of “Rock’n’ Roll Suicide,” was a “loud” release in the sense of the culture-shift it helped spearhead—not to mention it being the conduit for Bowie’s ascendency to true “Starman”-level stardom.
