What was the title of David Bowie's 1976 album that opens with a 10-minute title track?
Answer
Station to Station
Answer
Station to Station
David Bowie’s 1976 album that opens with a 10-minute title track is “Station to Station.”
Released on 23 January 1976, Station to Station was Bowie’s tenth studio album and the main showcase for his Thin White Duke persona. Its opening title track runs for more than 10 minutes, making it Bowie’s longest studio recording. The song begins with a train-like sound and a slow, ominous march before shifting into a faster, funk- and disco-influenced section.
Bowie recorded the album in Los Angeles in late 1975, after filming The Man Who Fell to Earth. The cover uses an image from that film, linking the record’s stark visual world to Bowie’s increasingly theatrical public identity. The album also marks a bridge between the funk and soul of Young Americans and the experimental direction he pursued in the Berlin period.
Listeners sometimes confuse the answer with Low or “Heroes,” which followed during the so-called Berlin Trilogy. Those albums are closely connected stylistically, but Station to Station is the 1976 record whose opening title song supplies the distinctive ten-minute landmark.
Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026