B-side "We Are the Dead" Genre Art rock | Format 7" | |
Released 30 April 1976 (1976-04-30) Recorded September – November 1975 at Cherokee Studios and Record Plant Studios (Los Angeles, California) Length 5:33 (album version)
3:43 (single version) | ||
"TVC 15" is a song written and recorded by David Bowie in 1975 and released in 1976.
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The track was inspired by an episode in which Iggy Pop, during a drug-fuelled period at Bowie’s LA home, hallucinated and believed the television set was swallowing his girlfriend. Bowie developed a story of a holographic television, TVC 15. In the song, the narrator's girlfriend crawls into the television and afterwards, the narrator desires to crawl in himself to find her.
It was chosen as the second single from Station to Station in the UK, where it reached No. 33.
The B-side, "We Are the Dead", originally part of Bowie’s attempt to adapt Nineteen Eighty-Four, had previously been released on the Diamond Dogs album.
In America it peaked at No.64 on Billboard singles chart.
Track listing
- "TVC 15" (Bowie) – 3:43
- "We Are the Dead" (Bowie) – 4:58