Station To Station  by David Bowie

David Bowie's tenth album came out in 1976 under the title Station To Station. This particular album moves in the musical style of art rock and funk. The album consists of only six compositions. One of these songs, the ten-minute long Station To Station, and a phrase contained in its lyrics "the return of the thin white duke" created the persona of the "Thin White Duke," which Bowie had adopted in the mid-1970s. The real reason, of course, was different. The excessively thin image of the artist at that time was due to the exhausting diet he had subjected himself to and the limitless use of cocaine.

In the production of the album, we have David Bowie himself, as well as Harry Maslin, who also took on playing some musical instruments like synthesizers, melodica, xylophone, etc. A decisive role was also played by Carlos Alomar with his guitar, while on piano and keyboards is Roy Bittan from the E-Street Band. The album closes with an excellent cover of a Johnny Mathis song from 1957, Wild Is The Wind. Of course, Bowie recorded it influenced by Nina Simone's rendition in 1966.

Station To Station achieved success in both the U.S. and Canada, as well as in numerous European countries. One of the impressive positions it reached was No. 6 in Japan.