David Bowie’s return to Europeanism in the 1970s

From LA to Berlin

Photo by Jeison Higuita on Unsplash

By the time David Bowie finished his 1976 art-rock/disco album, Station to Station, he had become somewhat disillusioned with the idea of America.

During his most controversial period — from flirting with fascism to studying the occultist Aleister Crowley — he had pushed himself to the brink in his pursuit of artistic…