I'm the One (Annette Peacock album)

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. In 2012, the album was reissued again by the Future Days imprint of Light in the Attic Records.

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

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. 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." (Peacock had turned down Bowie's request that she appear on the album Aladdin Sane.) 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.