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''Station to Station'' is the tenth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released by RCA Records in 1976. Commonly regarded as one of his most significant works, ''Station to Station'' was the vehicle for his last great "character", the Thin White Duke. The album was recorded after he completed shooting Nicolas Roeg's ''The Man Who Fell to Earth'', and the cover artwork featured a still from the movie. During the sessions Bowie was heavily dependent on drugs, especially cocaine, and has claimed he recalls almost nothing of the production.〔Buckley (2000): pp. 259, 264.〕〔 Musically, ''Station to Station'' was a transitional album for Bowie, developing the funk and soul music of his previous release, ''Young Americans'', while presenting a new direction towards synthesisers and motorik rhythms that was influenced by German electronic bands such as Neu! and Kraftwerk. This trend culminated in some of his most acclaimed work, the so-called 'Berlin Trilogy', recorded with Brian Eno in 1977–79. Bowie himself has said that ''Station to Station'' was "a plea to come back to Europe for me".〔 The album’s lyrics reflected his preoccupations with Nietzsche, Aleister Crowley, mythology and religion. Blending funk and krautrock, romantic balladry and occultism, ''Station to Station'' has been described as "simultaneously one of Bowie's most accessible albums and his most impenetrable".〔 Preceded by the single "Golden Years", it made the top five in both the UK and US charts. In 2003, the album was ranked No. 323 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. ==Background== According to biographer David Buckley, the Los Angeles-based David Bowie, fuelled by an "astronomic" cocaine habit and subsisting on a diet of peppers and milk, spent much of 1975–76 "in a state of psychic terror".〔 Stories—mostly from one interview, pieces of which found their way into ''Playboy'' and ''Rolling Stone''—circulated of the singer living in a house full of ancient-Egyptian artefacts, burning black candles, seeing bodies fall past his window, having his semen stolen by witches, receiving secret messages from The Rolling Stones, and living in morbid fear of fellow Aleister Crowley aficionado Jimmy Page.〔Pegg (2004): pp. 297–300.〕 Bowie would later say of L.A., "The fucking place should be wiped off the face of the earth". It was on the set of his first major film, ''The Man Who Fell to Earth'', that Bowie began writing a pseudo-autobiography called ''The Return of the Thin White Duke''. He was also composing music on the understanding that he was to provide the picture's soundtrack, though this would not come to fruition. (At Bowie's recommendation, John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas would write and produce all the original music for the film instead.)〔Phillips (1986): p. 290.〕 Director Nicolas Roeg warned the star that the part of Thomas Jerome Newton would likely remain with him for some time after production completed. With Roeg's agreement, Bowie developed his own look for the film, and this carried through to his public image and onto two album covers over the next twelve months, as did Newton's air of fragility and aloofness.〔Buckley (2000): pp. 260–263.〕 The Thin White Duke became the mouthpiece for ''Station to Station'' and, as often as not during the next six months, for Bowie himself. Impeccably dressed in white shirt, black trousers and waistcoat, the Duke was a hollow man who sang songs of romance with an agonised intensity, yet felt nothing—"ice masquerading as fire".〔Carr & Murray (1981): pp. 78–80.〕 The persona has been described as "a mad aristocrat",〔 "an amoral zombie",〔Buckley (2000): p. 258.〕 and "an emotionless ''Aryan'' superman".〔 For Bowie himself, the Duke was "a nasty character indeed".〔Wilcken (2005): p. 24.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Station to Station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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