ON THIS DATE (39 YEARS AGO) November 17, 1975 - David Bowie: Golden Years b/w Can You Hear Me (RCA Victor PB-10441) 45 single is released in the US. Golden Years is a song written by David Bowie in 1975. It was originally released as a shortened single in November 1975, and in its full-length version in January the following year on the Station to Station album. It was the first track completed during the Station to Station sessions, a period when Bowies cocaine addiction was at its peak. At one stage it was slated to be the albums title track. When it first appeared as a single in 1975, Golden Years presented a somewhat skewed view of the forthcoming album, being more similar in style to the Young Americans funk/soul material from earlier in 1975 than the rest of Station to Station, which foreshadowed the Kraftwerk-influenced Euro-centric and electronic music that Bowie would move into with his late-1970s Berlin Trilogy. Bowie was looking to emulate something of the glitzy nostalgia of On Broadway, which he was playing on piano in the studio, when he came up with Golden Years. He has said that he offered it to Elvis Presley to perform, but that Presley declined it. Both Angela Bowie and Ava Cherry also claim to have been the inspiration for the song. Bowie allegedly got drunk to perform the song for the American TV show Soul Train; at the time he was one of the few white artists to appear on the program. The resultant video clip was used to promote the single and continued Bowies commercial success in the United States, where it reached #10 and charted for 16 weeks. It achieved #8 in the UK.
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