David Bowie ‘Station To Station’ CD & T-Shirt Giveway!

Virgin/EMI is excited to announce the release of a 3-CD Special Edition and 5-CD, DVD and heavyweight vinyl Deluxe Edition of David Bowie’s hugely influential 1976’s album, Station To Station. 

“The return of The Thin White Duke…”

So begins David Bowie’s 10^th studio album.  In part influenced by his role in Nicolas Roeg’s film The Man Who Fell To Earth, ever the innovator, Bowie became the character The Thin White Duke; a composite, part his character from the film, alien Thomas Jerome Newton, part Buster Keaton and part European cabaret artist.  

The opening 10-minute title track leaves the listener in no doubt that another ground-breaking Bowie transformation is taking place.  From the sound of a moving train and two-note intro, through the introduction and intention of The Thin White Duke – taking in Crowley, Cocaine and Kabbalah and Romanticism – the song is a piece of paranoid and dislocated electronic-funk.  This is followed by the distinctive UK and US Top 10 single Golden Years, which hints at the funk and soul of his previous album, though a more regretful lyric urges the listener to “run for the shadows.”  Word On A Wing is the first of the album’s two ballads, with a decidedly Christian theme – a song which in later years Bowie said was something of a cry for help.  The back-to-back TVC15 and Stay provide the album with a funkier feel, the former having said to have been influenced by being sprawled in front of a dozen TV monitors and a dream about a girlfriend being eaten by a TV set.  A great admirer of Nina Simone’s version of the song, the album’s second ballad and final track is a cover of Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington’s ballad Wild Is The Wind, generally considered an inspired and classic Bowie vocal performance.

Station To Station was a top 5 success in the UK and US.  It would, as many commentators said, divide the decade for Bowie.  He thereafter left the US for Berlin with Iggy Pop and embarked on a journey which saw the creation of his seminal Berlin Trilogy, as well as playing a major role in Iggy’s acclaimed The Idiot and Lust For Life albums.

Celebrity Dirty Laundry has a Special Edition 3 disc set of David Bowie’s “Station to Station” reissue for giveaway along with a t-shirt.   One lucky Celebrity Dirty Laundry viewer will have a chance to win.  I wish I could win but sadly I am not allowed :-)

All you have to do to win this incredible giveaway of a  Special edition 3 disc set and the t-shirt is leave us a comment in this post with your favorite Bowie song.  Enter as many times as you like to increase your chances of winning.   In your comment if you leave your e-mail address we will keep you up-to-date on all the Bowie News.  Contest ends October 1st, 2010 – so start entering now!  Check out  Bowie’s Station To Station site for more info.