Bowie moves to Berlin

August 1976: Number 33 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock musicIn the spring of 1976, David Bowie was dangerously close to burnout from fame and drugs. He had just released his 10th studio album, Station to Station, and, with Iggy Pop in tow, was travelling through a Europe that he interpreted through his ambiguous obsessions with cold war politics and the second world war.The mid-1970s saw a remarkable renaissance in German rock, with ground-breaking records by Kraft...

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