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=== Station to Station === | === Station to Station === | ||
'''''Station to Station''''' is the 10th studio album by English musician David Bowie, released on 23 January 1976 by [[w:RCA Records|RCA Records]]. In an album that reflected his darkest years Bowie, who five years previously in one of his lyrics had entrusted salvation to aliens, dedicated himself to the Stations of the Cross. He prayed, in the depths of his addictions and lacerating questions: “Lord, I kneel and offer you my word on a wing / And I’m trying hard to fit among your scheme of things.” | '''''Station to Station''''' is the 10th studio album by English musician David Bowie, released on 23 January 1976 by [[w:RCA Records|RCA Records]]. In an album that reflected his darkest years Bowie, who five years previously in one of his lyrics had entrusted salvation to aliens, dedicated himself to the Stations of the Cross. He prayed, in the depths of his addictions and lacerating questions: “Lord, I kneel and offer you my word on a wing / And I’m trying hard to fit among your scheme of things.” ([[w:Word_on_a_Wing|Word on a Wing]]). | ||
David Bowie wore for many years a small silver crucifix, as | Bowie admits that the song '''''Word on a Wing''''' was written out of a [[cocaine|coke]]-addled spiritual despair that he experienced while filming the movie ''[[w:The Man Who Fell to Earth|The Man Who Fell to Earth]]''. In 1980 Bowie spoke of the song to NME, claiming "There were days of such psychological terror when making the [[w:Nicolas Roeg|Roeg]] film that I nearly started to approach my reborn, born again thing. It was the first time I'd really seriously thought about [[w:Jesus of Nazareth|Christ]] and [[w:God|God]] in any depth, and 'Word on a Wing' was a protection. It did come as a complete revolt against elements that I found in the film. The passion in the song was genuine... something I needed to produce from within myself to safeguard myself against some of the situations I felt were happening on the film set." | ||
From the time of this song, David Bowie starting wearing and wore for many years a small silver crucifix, as can be seen in a number of his performances.<ref>See a gallery of pictures here: https://bowiesattva.com/2016/05/21/bowies-cross-a-tool-for-psychic-self-defense/ .</ref> | |||
=== Loving the Alien === | === Loving the Alien === | ||