‘Station To Station’ was Bowie’s cocaine album, the one that introduced the persona of the Thin White Duke (as referenced in the title track). Living in Los Angeles at the time, Bowie’s rampant cocaine use saw him hallucinating about bodies falling past his window, having his semen stolen by witches, receiving secret messages from The Rolling Stones and harbouring an irrational morbid fear of Jimmy Page.

In a sign of things to come, on his fourth album, David Bowie reinvented his down opting to create a record of more piano-driven pop as opposed to the guitar-driven music he was known for. ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ did poorly commercially, and his label, RCA decided not to promote this record much as they were worried that he would change his image and sound again after this. They weren’t wrong about that, but what they were wrong about is that Bowie’s chameleon-like ability is what made him so great. This is definitely the body of work where he starts to sound like David Bowie.