Crosby likely did not know who Bowie was, while the Thin White Duke hated Little Drummer Boy, and nearly walked out. And yet magic was made
In 1977, few would have put Bing Crosby and David Bowie in the same room. Crosby, 74, was an old-school entertainer, a man famous for dreaming of a white Christmas. Bowie, meanwhile, had spent so long living on a diet of milk and cocaine that he couldn’t remember making Station to Station the year before. And yet, somehow, this odd couple wound up recording one of the best-loved – and most unlikely – Christmas songs ever made.
