Release and Aftermath
Bowie allegedly got drunk to perform the song for the American TV show Soul Train; at the time he was one of the few white artists to appear on the program. The resultant video clip was used to promote the single and continued Bowie's commercial success in the United States, where it reached #10 and charted for 16 weeks. It achieved #8 in the UK.
"Golden Years" was played sporadically by Bowie on the 1976 tour, and regularly on the 1983, 1990 and 2000 tours. It was used as the theme song of Stephen King's Golden Years, and in the pilot of the CBS series Swingtown. In "Replaceable You", a 2011 episode of The Simpsons, the song plays at a scene in the retirement home and over the closing credits.
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Famous quotes containing the words release and/or aftermath:
“As nature requires whirlwinds and cyclones to release its excessive force in a violent revolt against its own existence, so the spirit requires a demonic human being from time to time whose excessive strength rebels against the community of thought and the monotony of morality ... only by looking at those beyond its limits does humanity come to know its own utmost limits.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
“The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)