Rock's 50 Greatest Meltdowns: # 6
David Bowie on Soul Train
Mr. Bowie, meet cocaine. Cocaine, Bowie. Get acquainted, you two! And so David Bowie spent the mid-Seventies gadding about L.A. like a blond coat hanger with a dead rock star hanging on it. Bowie climaxed his blow-and-shoulder-pads period on November 4th, 1975, when he performed on Soul Train/ After mumbling incoherently with Don Cornelius, Bowie twitched his way through a truly surreal attempt to lip-sync "Golden Years." "I hadn't bothered to learn it," he later admitted.
