Drive-In Saturday

The second single released ahead of David Bowie’s sixth album Aladdin Sane, ‘Drive-In Saturday’ was a futurist daydream married to a Fifties doo-wop style.

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"A lot of my concept albums, like Aladdin Sane, Ziggy and Diamond Dogs, were only 50 percent there. They should have been visual as well. I think that some of the most talented actors around are in rock. I think a whole renaissance in filmmaking is gonna come from rock. Not because of it, though, despite it." — David Bowie, 1976

In 1969 David Bowie appeared in a Lyons Maid ice cream advertisement, and unsuccessfully auditioned for another by Kit Kat.

"Heroes" (1977)

David Bowie’s 12th studio album, “Heroes” was the second part of the so-called ‘Berlin trilogy’ made with Tony Visconti and Brian Eno, and the only one of the three to be fully recorded in the German city.

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