On This Day, Jan. 23, 1976..
Fifty years ago, David Bowie released his 10th studio album, Station to Station, which introduced a new persona, the Thin White Duke.
The follow-up to 1975’s Young Americans, Station To Station was co-produced by Bowie and Harry Maslin. The album shows the rocker drawing influence from electronic dance music as well a German experimental rock genre known as krautrock.
Station to Station peaked at #3 on the Billboard albums chart and at the time was Bowie’s highest-charting album in the U.S.
The lead single, “Golden Years,” spent 16 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #10. It was later used for the soundtrack to the 2001 movie A Knight’s Tale.
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