“David shook my hand and said, ‘Here’s the song I want to do.’ It was Golden Years. I was auditioning during the making of the album”: Bassist George Murray’s six-year stint with David Bowie

British singer, songwriter and actor David Bowie, wearing a black waistcoat over a white shirt with a white towel draped over his shoulders, with American bass guitarist George Murray, who wears a white suit with a striped scarf and a brown hat behind Bowie as he performs live in concert at Madison Square Garden in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, New York, 26th March 1976. The concert was part of Bowie's 'Isolar Tour' (variously known as the 'White Light Tour', the 'Thin White Duke Tour, and the 'Station to Station Tour'), in support of his album 'Station to Station'.

George Murray spent six years as a member of David Bowie's band – locked tight with drummer Dennis Davis and guitarist Carlos Alomar – to cut the studio albums Station to Station, Low, Heroes, Lodger, and Scary Monsters, and the live discs Stage and Live Nassau Coliseum '76.

Murray's pivotal basslines from this fertile period range from Heroes, which he played on a Rickenbacker using a pick, to his slapped P-Bass on Ashes to Ashes.