Aladdin Sane at Number 1
David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane enters the UK charts at Number 1 and stays there all month. On May 8 its creator goes to see Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s show Behind The Fridge at the Cambridge Theatre in Covent Garden. On May 12 he begins a UK tour at Earls Court, where the future Sid Vicious attends. With nine costume changes a night, the tour reaches Aberdeen Music Hall on May 16, where Bowie tells Disc he’s bought some grey Yves St Laurent socks: “I went in a Rolls-Royce… apart from that, I don’t think I’ve done anything decadent in the last six months.” That month, The Guess Who release Glamour Boy, an anti-glam song in an anti-Bowie sleeve.