Station to Station
Six long tracks from the Thin White Duke period, recorded during heavy cocaine use.
David Bowie, 1976
- Released
- 23 January 1976
- Recorded
- September to November 1975
- Studio
- Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles
- Label
- RCA
- Producer
- David Bowie, Harry Maslin
- Length
- 37:54
Bowie arrived at Cherokee with fragments, and the band built the arrangements around them. He was using cocaine heavily and later remembered only pieces of the sessions. In a 1997 Q interview he called the record extremely dark and a piece of work by an entirely different person.
It reached number five in the UK and number three in the US. TVC 15 was released as a single on 30 April 1976 and reached number 33 in the UK. Lester Bangs of Creem called the album a masterpiece, Dave Marsh was negative, and Christgau called TVC 15 his favorite piece of rock and roll in a very long time.
Track listing
- Station to Station10:08
- Golden Years4:03
- Word on a Wing6:00
- TVC 155:29
- Stay6:08
- Wild Is the Wind5:58
Personnel
- David Bowie vocals
- Carlos Alomar guitar
- Earl Slick guitar
- George Murray bass
- Dennis Davis drums
- Roy Bittan piano, organ
- Geoff MacCormack backing vocals, credited as Warren Peace
- Harry Maslin effects, synthesizers, baritone saxophone
More from David Bowie
Space Oddity (1969), Hunky Dory (1971), The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), Aladdin Sane (1973), Diamond Dogs (1974), Young Americans (1975), Low (1977), "Heroes" (1977), Lodger (1979), Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980), Let's Dance (1983), Heathen (2002), The Next Day (2013), Blackstar (2016)
Sources
- Station to Station, Wikipedia