I'm the One (Annette Peacock album)

I'm the One
Studio album by
Annette Peacock
ReleasedJanuary 1972
StudioRCA (New York City)
Genre
Length36:24
LabelRCA
ProducerAnnette Peacock, Bob Ringe
Annette Peacock chronology
Dual Unity
(1972) 		I'm the One
(1972) 		X-Dreams
(1978)

I'm the One is the debut solo album by Annette Peacock and was released by RCA in 1972. In 2010 Peacock remastered and reissued it on her label, ironic US, in a signed, collector's edition.[1] In 2012, the album was reissued again by the Future Days imprint of Light in the Attic Records.[2]

I'm the One fuses blues, jazz, avant-garde electronic music (including extensive treatment of her own voice through a Moog synthesizer)[3] and free form poetry and rap. It was recorded live and mostly in single takes.[4]

The coda of the David Bowie song "Something in the Air", from the album Hours, paid homage to "I'm the One", a song of which Bowie was fond.[5][6] Pianist Mike Garson, who played keyboards on "I'm the One", and who also provided the piano solo on Bowie's song "Aladdin Sane", recalled: "no one would know he stole that from Annette, because you don't even know who Annette is. She was another... big influence."[7] (Peacock had turned down Bowie's request that she appear on the album Aladdin Sane.[8]) Bowie sideman Mick Ronson incorporated "I'm the One" and Peacock's arrangement of "Love Me Tender" into his 1974 album Slaughter on 10th Avenue.[9]

  1. ^ Doran, John (3 June 2014). "She's The One: Annette Peacock Interviewed". The Quietus. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
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  3. ^ Fordham, John (14 July 2011). "Annette Peacock: I'm The One – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  4. ^ Mason, Richard (June 2011). "Annette Peacock". Perfect Sound Forever. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
  5. ^ O'Leary, Chris (2019). Ashes to Ashes: The Songs of David Bowie, 1976-2016. Watkins Media.
  6. ^ Pegg, Nicholas (2016). The Complete David Bowie. Titan Books.
  7. ^ Hiatt, Brian (2016). A Portrait of Bowie: A Tribute to Bowie by His Artistic Collaborators and Contemporaries. Octopus.
  8. ^ "Annette Peacock: My Mama Never Taught Me How to Cook: The Aura Years 1978-1982". Pitchfork. September 20, 2004. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference aston was invoked but never defined (see the help page).