- Adam from Clade remembers driving around to David Bowie's music in university. Out of nostalgia, he dials up Aladdin Sane and listens to it while he drives.
Music
- R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills cited Mike Garson's piano part on "Aladdin Sane" as an influence on the piano solo in "How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us".
- Simple Minds reportedly took their name from the line "so simple-minded" from "The Jean Genie".
- The Smiths based the riff in "Sheila Take a Bow" on "Panic in Detroit".
- Strong Sad dresses up as Bowie from the cover in one of the Homestar Runner Halloween toons.
- A poster of the cover, with Bowie as a duck, is hanging on Daffy Duck's bedroom in The Looney Tunes Show.
- In the Steven Universe episode "Mr. Universe", Greg sings along to a CD by Kerry Moonbeam, a riff on Ziggy Stardust, in the car; the CD's cover takes after that for Aladdin Sane, albeit without the lightning bold makeup.
Other
- The "singer" emojis, 👨🏼🎤 and 👩🏼🎤, are styled after the album cover.
- The album cover was one of many parodied during a music-themed release of M&Ms in 2022, with the Yellow M&M in place of Bowie. Significantly, Aladdin Sane was the only album predating The New '10s to be represented in the campaign.
