After what Bowie labelled "plastic soul," on Young Americans, it was more a case of lost soul for 1976's Station to Station. The desperately thin, paranoid Bowie was still living in America but casting anxious, glassy-eyed looks across the Atlantic to European salvation - principally the musical and spiritual regeneration of Berlin. Conflicting reports claim the album was either recorded before or after filming The Man Who Fell to Earth in New Mexico, but either way both album and film feature heavy themes of alienation, loss of control, madness and addiction (in his alien character's case, alcohol in Bowie's, cocaine).
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