Chapter Eight: Cracked Actor (1975)

At the height of his fame in the mid-'70s, David Bowie battled his deepest demons in the City of Angels, subsisting on a diet of cocaine, milk and red peppers. Somehow, in the midst of this personal nadir, he pulled himself back from the edge of oblivion and made an album that many consider a masterpiece: 'Station to Station.'

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