With the 1976 album&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Station-to-Station/dp/B00001OH7U/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Station to Station</a>,David Bowie was gradually transitioning from beginning to end from his heavily funkified "plastic soul" period (as he refers to it) into a sound influenced heavily be electronica. During that year Bowie decided to leave America after his feature film&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/The-Man-Who-Fell-To-Earth/dp/B002ZBZFNY/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">The Man Who Fell To Earth</a>&nbsp;had run its course. Specifically he wanted to leave LA because (as he noted at the time) he "knew nothing but bad people,and was doing nothing but bad stuff"-likely referencing his burgeoning cocaine habit. Perhaps he was also looking to escape his Thin White Duke persona and a likely taken-out-of-context "interest" in fascism and controversy over an (apparently) Nazi-like salute while travelling in Berin. Moving to Switzerland,he wanted to escape the David Bowie circus of multiple personas,dramatized stage shows and drug use-in order to concentrate on himself as a musician. There he met up with former Roxy Music co-founder Brian Eno. Eno was seeking an artist to collaborate with and produce. David Bowie needed a producer and a collaborator to help him realize his new musical vision. And this album was the first fruit of their musically collaborative passion.