The man who sold the world. The Man Who Sold the World (song)

The lyrics are also darker than his previous releases, exploring themes of insanity, religion, technology and war	He viewed its music and Bowie's "paranoid futuristic tales" as "bizarre", adding that: "Musically, there isn't much time for innovation
This was a man with the world at his finger tips, and he gave it all up"	The Complete David Bowie 7th ed

The Man Who Sold the World (song)

Strange Fascination — David Bowie: The Definitive Story.

An analysis of David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold the World”: It has been claimed that began with the release of The Man Who Sold the World, though this is also attributed to Bolan's appearance on the UK television programme in March 1971 wearing glitter
An analysis of David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold the World”: Trajectories of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fourteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
The Man Who Sold the World (song): The lyrics are noted as very cryptic and evocative; in Doggett's words, "begging but defying interpretation

	The song's narrator has an encounter with a kind of , as suggested in the second chorus where "I never lost control" is replaced with "We never lost control"
The song, along with its parent album, has been remastered multiple times, including in 2015 as part of the box set	She promoted her version with an appearance on the British television programme on 10 January, in which she performed in a charcoal suit and gangster hat

Bowie recorded his vocal for the title track on the final day.

An analysis of David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold the World”: At this point, the track was recorded under the working title "Saviour Machine" and did not contain the title phrase
The Man Who Sold the World (album): The disquieting aspects of this are amplified by being placed upon a musical chordal structure that is just as disturbing as the underlying philosophical ideas
An analysis of David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold the World”: The next day on 18 April, Ralph Mace was hired to play the , borrowed from , following his work on the single version of "Memory of a Free Festival"