Station to Station

1975 was a very productive year for Bowie: Young Americans achieved the first place in a lot of countries in the world and, his single, “Fame” achieved the success that Bowie was looking for since the very beginning of his solitary career. But 1976 came in and Bowie began to relate himself with ocultism and other manifestations of black magic. Bowie started to become obsessed with numerology. After a concert, as Paolo Hewitt said in his book, David said to a journalist:

“Numbers weren’t favorable that night. We were a four, and the crowd was a four aswell, which sometimes mean opposition. In LA we will be a five, placed in the mage’s kingdom, while the crowd will be a six, and that means that the situation will be comfortable and kind. It’s very desirable”.

When everything looked like Bowie was kind of crazy with his obsession in numerology, he released one of his most beloved masterpieces ever: Station to Station, an album of despair and greatness. An album that supposed David’s spiritual discovery. Carlos Alomar, David’s guitarist by the time, said in 2006, as Paolo Hewitt’s book said:

“It was incredible the dose of experimentation that was in that album”.

Years later, Bowie said that he couldn’t remember things about the Station to Station era because of his addiction to cocaine and work. As Paolo Hewitt’s book says, Geoff MacCormack said in 2007:

“In that epoch, David became a nocturnal creature. Coco (Schwab) and me tried to put some organization, cooking and arousing David before the midday; but one is not in good shape enough to wake up someone who has been awake for three days in a row”.