While the Thin White Duke had started to emerge on the Young Americans tour, it was on Station To Station that the persona firmly took hold
As 1975 drew to a close, Bowie fans were becoming increasingly acclimatised to their hero’s whimsical statements and sensationalist claims in the press, only for him to backtrack on them within weeks or months. This was the case with Station To Station - an album written and recorded just months after Bowie had announced he was giving up rock altogether in favour of a film career.
Having already achieved years of success back home, Bowie’s relocation to the US had proved invaluable to making him a star there. The success of Fame and Young Americans had established him as both a bona-fide superstar and a musical maverick. He was a multifaceted celebrity celebrated on peak-time TV shows such as The Cher Show and Soul Train and in magazine gossip columns, he’d even starred in his first film.