TVC 15


"TVC 15" is a song written and recorded by singer-songwriter David Bowie and released on his 1976 album Station to Station.
The track was inspired by an episode in which Iggy Pop, during a drug-fueled 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.
The track has been called "incongruously jolly" and "the most oblique tribute to the Yardbirds imaginable". Critic Robert Christgau described it as an "irresistible" merger of Lou Reed, disco, and Huey Smith.
It was chosen as the second single from the album in the UK, where it reached No. 33. In the US, it peaked at No. 64 on the Billboard singles chart. The song was also a top 20 hit in Sweden.
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.

Track listing

All songs written by David Bowie.
  1. "TVC 15" – 3:43
  2. "We Are the Dead" – 4:58

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