DAVID BOWIE Released His Cocaine Album ‘STATION TO STATION’ 50 Years Ago Today
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
23 January 2026
The thin white duke DAVID BOWIE (1947 – 2016) released his 10th LP
STATION TO STATION on 23 January 1976, today 50 years ago.
It peaked at #5 in the UK, and #3 in the USA.
During the sessions, Bowie was suffering from various drug addictions, most
prominently cocaine, and subsequently stated that he recalled almost nothing
of the production.
Bowie in 1987: “I was so blocked, so stoned. It’s quite a casualty case, isn’t it.
I’m amazed I came out of that period, honest. When I see that now I cannot
believe I survived it. I was so close to really throwing myself away physically,
completely.”
Rolling Stone wrote in retrospect: “An album that was both musically
accessible and lyrically elliptical, a transition between the plastic soul of
Young Americans and the chilly electronic hum of the Berlin trilogy that
followed.”
The cover art featured a still from the film
The Man Who Fell To Earth, in which Bowie
had the main role.
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