Breaking Glass (song)

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"Breaking Glass"
Single by David Bowie
from the album Stage
B-side	"Art Decade" "Ziggy Stardust"
Released	17 November 1978
Recorded	Either Philadelphia, 28/29 April; Providence, Rhode Island, 5 May or Boston, 6 May 1978
Genre	Art rock
Length	1:52 (Low version) 3:28 (Stage version)
Label	RCA
Songwriter(s)	David Bowie George Murray Dennis Davis
Producer(s)	Tony Visconti
David Bowie singles chronology
"Beauty and the Beast" (1978) "Breaking Glass" (1978) "Boys Keep Swinging" (1979)

"Breaking Glass" is a song by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie. It was co-written by Bowie, bassist George Murray and drummer Dennis Davis in September 1976. Originally a track on Bowie's 1977 album Low, a reworked version of the song was a regular on the Isolar II Tour. A live version from that tour was used as the lead track on a 7-inch EP to promote his second live album, Stage in 1978. The EP reached number 54 on the UK Singles Chart in December 1978.

In the US, the track "Star" was chosen as the lead track for the live EP (with "What in the World" and "Breaking Glass" as B-sides), but failed to chart, while in Japan, "Soul Love" was released to promote Stage (with "Blackout" as the B-side).

Bowie performed "Breaking Glass" on his Isolar II, Serious Moonlight, Outside, Heathen, and A Reality tours.