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David Bowie FAQ:Music:Albums:
Station To Station (1976)
In 1976 Bowie adopted a new persona: The Thin White Duke. With this new persona,
he released Station To Station.
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Rumours say Bowie originally wrote Golden Years for Elvis Presley, who didn't
cover the song. Golden Years was the only big hit single from Station To
Station, and it reached #10 on the US charts.
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Station To Station also included a cover of Wild Is The Wind. Bowie: 'I'm a
sucker for a very romantic song'.
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Bowie: 'I was really trying to push my musicians into experimental music. I
really didn't succeeded that much, except that I got some quite extraordinary
things out of Earl Slick. I think it captured his imagination to make noises on
guitar, and textures, rather than playing the right notes. Station To Station
was really the rock-format version of what was to come Low and Heroes. I was at
the time well into German electronic music - Can, and all that. And Kraftwerk
had made a big impression on me. I thought they were quite wonderful'.
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In the US, the album continued Bowie's commercial success, reaching #3 on the
charts (still the highest position ever achieved by a Bowie album in the US) and
spending 32 weeks on the chart.
Conversely, in the UK the album continued Bowie's downward commercial trend,
only reaching #5 (the lowest peak position for a Bowie album since "The Man Who
Sold The World"), though it did spend 16 weeks on the chart (four more than
"Young Americans"). According to the MRIB in 1998, the album is not one of
Bowie's ten biggest sellers of all time in the UK.
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Ryko and EMI re-released the album on CD with bonus tracks in 1991. The EMI
reissue spent one week on the UK charts (at #57). A 1998 EMI mid-price CD
reissue spent a further three weeks on the UK charts, peaking at #145.
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