The Thin White Duke

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about David Bowie, also known as Thin White Duke. For Stuart Price, who also uses this title, see Stuart Price.

The Thin White Duke, David Bowie's 1976 persona, is primarily identified with his Station to Station album (released that year) and mentioned by name in the title track. At first glance, the Duke appeared more "normal" than Bowie's previous incarnations, wearing a stylish, cabaret-style wardrobe, but the massive amounts of cocaine the rock star allegedly consumed during this period made his personality, or at least the personality he displayed during interviews, more alarming than it had ever been. At this time in his life, he said that he lived on "red peppers, cocaine and milk".^{[citation needed]}

As his drug habit ate away at his physical and mental health, Bowie decided to move from L.A. to West Berlin, where he began recording the groundbreaking so-called Berlin Trilogy (Low, "Heroes", and Lodger) with Brian Eno.