"Panic in Detroit" is a song written by English singer-songwriter David Bowie for the album "Aladdin Sane" in 1973. Bowie based it on friend Iggy Pop's descriptions of revolutionaries he had known in Michigan and Pop's experiences during the 1967 Detroit riots. "Rolling Stone" magazine called the track "a paranoid descendant of the Motor City's earlier masterpiece, Martha and the Vandellas' "Nowhere to Run"".