10 Great Rock Albums Recorded In Really Weird Ways

Perhaps the most stunning (but also tragic) thing about David Bowie’s sensational Station to Station is that the artist remembers almost nothing of the recording process. Recorded in 1975, Bowie was at the lowest point of his personal life and entirely dependent on cocaine.

He wasn’t alone in his usage of it, as it was the drug of choice for many working on the project and would fuel their work days which often lasted over 24 hours long. Bowie’s preferred method was to focus hard for four days and then rest and recharge. Despite going on the record as “hating sleep and preferring work”, Bowie had a bed delivered to the studio presumably in order to keep himself tethered to the project at all times.

In his personal life, the megastar was slipping. Surviving entirely on peppers, milk and the class-A drug; Bowie was physically deteriorating and losing himself mentally. He was gaining an interest in the cult and Nazi Germany and had apparently begun to see visions which ultimately lead him to demanding to see an exorcist about exorcising his own swimming pool.

Stories differ on the length of coke-fueled time that Station to Station took to complete but, apparently it seems, that his time in the studio was a lot more productive than sitting at home refrigerating his own urine to hide it from witches (yes, really).