Bowie by Pat Gilbert

Author:Pat Gilbert
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MBI
Published: 2017-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Bowie’s tenth studio album in as many years, Station to Station, and the first of two albums to feature a still from The Man Who Fell to Earth on its cover.

A pensive portrait of Bowie as the Thin White Duke, taken shortly before the release of Station to Station.

A poster and program for the Station to Station / Isolar—1976 tour, which kicked off in Vancouver on February 2, 1976.

The rejection of the Bowie’s score for The Man Who Fell to Earth was an unsettling end to an extraordinarily fertile year for Bowie, but there was more drama to come at Christmas. Unhappy with their relationship, Bowie unexpectedly sacked Michael Lippman, the lawyer who had become his manager after engineering Defries’s departure. Locked away in his home on Stone Canyon Road, Bowie made the decision to take control of his life, starting with his drug addiction. The Bowie who emerged in January 1975 employed a personal trainer, was eating more healthily, and had scaled down his hedonistic habits dramatically. Some claim he even had even acquired a light suntan, though meeting him a few months later, the Daily Mail was nonetheless moved to comment he looked “terribly ill. Thin as a stick insect. And corpse pale.” The immediate reason for Bowie’s new, comparatively clean-living act was that, after a year without touring, he was set to return to the road with one of his greatest-ever bands, one capable of blending all his diverse musical styles into a seamless, powerful new kind of rock.

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