Station to Station
Studio album by David Bowie
Released	January 23, 1976 Rykodisc Reissue May 14, 1991
Recorded	Los Angeles, September-December 1975
Genre	Rock, Disco, Funk
Length	38:08
Label	RCA Records
Producer(s)	David Bowie, Harry Maslin
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (A) link
David Bowie chronology
Young Americans (1975) Station to Station (1976) ChangesOneBowie (1976)
Reissue Cover

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Track listing

All songs written by David Bowie except where noted. David Bowie (IPA: []) (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. ...

1. "Station to Station" – 10:14
2. "Golden Years" – 4:00
3. "Word on a Wing" – 6:03
4. "TVC 15" – 5:33
5. "Stay" – 6:15
6. "Wild Is the Wind" (Ned Washington, Dimitri Tiompkin) – 6:02

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Reissues

The album has been rereleased four times to date on CD, the first being in 1985 by RCA with black-and-white cover art, the second in 1991 by Rykodisc (containing two bonus tracks), the third in 1999 by EMI (featuring 24-bit digitally remastered sound and no bonus tracks), and finally in 2007 by EMI Japan replicating the original vinyl artwork. CD may stand for: Compact Disc Canadian Forces Decoration Cash Dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) Certificate of Deposit České Dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s... RCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony BMG Music Entertainment. ... Black-and-white or black and white) can refer to a general term used in photography, film, and other media (see black-and-white). ... Rykodisc Records is an American record label, and subsidiary of Warner Music Group. ... The EMI Group (LSE: EMI) is a British music company comprising of the major record company EMI Music which operates several labels, based in Brook Green in London, England, and EMI Music Publishing, based on Charing Cross Road, London. ...

1991 reissue bonus tracks

1. "Word on a Wing" (Live) – 7:24
2. "Stay" (Live) – 6:10

Personnel

• David Bowie – vocals, guitar, tenor and alto saxophone, Moog, Mellotron
• Carlos Alomar – guitar
• Roy Bittan – piano
• Dennis Davis – drums
• George Murray – bass
• Warren Peace – backing vocals
• Earl Slick – guitar

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Miscellanea

• The Red Hot Chili Peppers' song "Californication" contains a reference to the album ("Cobain can you hear the spheres/Singing songs off Station to Station").
• Seal's song "Lost My Faith" from the album Human Being contains a reference to the album ("Station to Station/And we couldn't even say their names/I realise it/It's just a game").
• Kraftwerk also reference the album, and Bowie himself, in the title track of their 1977 album Trans-Europe Express. ("Station to station/Back to Düsseldorf City/meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie").
• The title track to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's second album Some Loud Thunder also references the Bowie album: "Did you wander / as my voice went from station to station to state?". The band also referenced Bowie on their debut album with the track "Over and Over Again (Lost & Found)," singing "You look like David Bowie, but you have nothing new to show me."
• David Bowie was inspired to do a cover of "Wild is the Wind" after he met singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone, who sang it on the album Wild Is The Wind (1966).
• Every song on the album, with the exception of the title track, was eventually released as a single. "Golden Years" is still played on classic rock stations in the US today. The title track was prepared, and pressed, for single release in France, but not released.
• Bowie has stated that the title of the album (and title track) refer not to train stations but the Stations of the Cross.
• The Fall Out Boy song "It's Not A Side Effect of the Cocaine, I'm Thinking It Must Be Love" off the album The Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue is a reference to the title track.
• The last chapter of the novel Trainspotting (novel) is named after "Station to Station". Irvine Welsh, the author of the novel, is an admitted Bowie fan.
• From Station To Station: Travels With Bowie, 1973-76 A limited edition book by Genesis Publications

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