VIDEO : How America Inspired David Bowie to Pen 'Aladdin Sane'

One year after seducing the world with the saga of Ziggy Stardust, David Bowie abandoned the moniker to invent a new glam character ? one with sinister undertones.
With a new hairstyle and a lightning bolt painted over his face Bowie says, "I guess what I was doing on Aladdin Sane, I was trying to move into the next area ? but using a rather pale imitation of Ziggy as a secondary device. In my mind, it was Ziggy Goes to Washington: Ziggy under the influence of America.