Every song on "Station to Station" eventually appeared on a single. "Golden Years" was released in November 1975, two months before the album. Bowie allegedly got drunk to perform it on TV for the American show "Soul Train", resulting in the film clip seen on music video programmes. It reached No. 8 in the UK and No. 10 in the US (where it charted for sixteen weeks) but, like "Rebel Rebel"'s relationship to "Diamond Dogs" (1974), was a somewhat unrepresentative teaser for the album to come.