David Bowie “Station to Station” released 45 years ago today, January 23rd, 1976. Bowie’s 10th studio LP, Station to Station introduced us to his Thin White Duke persona, a hollow and “nasty character,” impeccably dressed, who sings aloofly over funk and cold synthy krautrock. Station to Station went to #3 in the US and #5 in the UK and is considered among the best albums ever made, despite the fact that Bowie was completely blitzed out of his mind on cocaine, getting his calorie sustenance from peppers and milk and had zero recollection of the LP’s production in Los Angeles during 1975 (“I know it was in LA because I’ve read it was”). Bowie released three singles from the album (four if you count the title track “Station to Station,” which was a France-only single). The first was “Golden Years” (#10 US, #8 UK) which is disco-funky and weirdly warm and icy-cold at the same time. Next was “TVC 15″ (#64 US, #33 UK) which is one of my favorite Bowie songs – I vividly remember him performing it at Live Aid in ‘85 and it was mind-blowing.  Apparently a strung-out stoned Iggy Pop-inspired song: Iggy was staying with Bowie in LA and hallucinated that his TV swallowed his girlfriend. “Stay” was the final single; another funkster, it was only released in the US (its B-side was another Station to Station track: “Word on a Wing”) and then again in ‘76 as the B-side to the re-release of “Suffragette City” (that single originally released in ‘72 as the B-side to “Starman”).