Station To Station - David Bowie

David Bowie has always been the original chameleon or rock/pop. From his early days as a teenage mime performer and early conceptual artist, he when through a number of pop personas, Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane until in 1975 he became the ‘Thin White Duke’ and in 1976 adopting this persona ‘Station to Station’ was released. It is thought by many to be his best album to date. This was an intensely productive period for Bowie in the same year as making this record he had also starred in Nicholas Roeg's critically acclaimed cult classic ‘The Man Who Fell To Earth’, playing a stranded alien. Possibly due to his ...

Whatever your preferred phase, if you even have one, David Bowie’s mainstream career is pretty fascinating, and for fans who were around at the time (I guess), nicely consistent. Releasing an album every year but two from his optimistic, folky debut to the electronic minimalism of his Berlin detox, Bowie’s discography chronicles the rise and rise and permanent fame of the singing star and the evolution of his music as he travelled the world and absorbed its various flavours and drugs. 1976’s ‘Station to Station’ is one of the more transitional albums, like ‘Diamond Dogs’ two years earlier, and represents the culmination of his American-inspired ‘plastic soul’ ...

After the death of Ziggy and the last rites of Bowie's sojourn to the States vomiting up the Philadelphia Sound, 1976 saw him rediscovering Europe and the fascistic image of The Thin White Duke, as an eerie precursor for what became known as his Berlin song cycle, spawning Low, Heroes and Lodger over the following three years. For all that the sound and the image was relentlessly European, Bowie had built an All American collection of musicians around him in Carlos Alomar, Earl Slick (both guitar), Bruce Springsteen pianist Roy Bittan and the wonderful bass-drums axis of George Murray and Dennis Davis. This was a classic band who provided tremendous support ...