I går var det 40 år siden denne Bowie-klassiske single udkom, som budbringer for Aladdin Sane. Skrivningen af ‘Drive-in Saturday’, der er blevet set som Bowie’s svar på den musikalske dagsorden Roxy Music’s ankomst i England netop havde sat, blev påbegyndt under en natlig togrejse fra Seatlle til Phoenix. Her lidt hurtig info fra the worldwide web:

…It was late one night looking out the window of his railroad car on the way to Phoenix, Arizona, that David finally had a vision of America after the cleansing fires had taken their toll. “Apparently they only let the train through this particular stretch of desert late at night,” David explains “But if you don’t go to sleep when you are supposed to, you suddenly see the moon shining on seventeen or eighteen enormous silver domes.  I couldn’t find out from anyone what they were.  But they gave me a vision of America, Britain and China after a nuclear catastrophe.  The radiation has affected people’s minds and reproductive organs, and they don’t have a sex life.   The only way they can learn to make love again is by watching video-films of how it used to be done.” The song Bowie began to write in his notebook as the domes faded into the distance was ‘Drive in Saturday’.