"Station to Station" was recorded in late 1975 at Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles. In 1981, "NME" editors Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray surmised that it was cut—"in 10 days of feverish activity"—when Bowie decided that there was no hope of his producing a soundtrack for "The Man Who Fell to Earth". More recent scholarship contends that the album was recorded over a couple of months—with the sessions beginning in late September or early October 1975 and ending in late November—so that it was in the can before Bowie began his abortive sessions on the soundtrack.