LONDON - JUNE 1972: Musician David Bowie poses for a portrait in his "Ziggy Stardust" guise in June 1972 in London, England. David Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust returns to a pair of ...

Mott The Hoople were on their last legs. But then David Bowie stepped up as their benefactor with a hit single.

David Bowie began his career as Davie Jones when he released a single in 1964 with the King Bees. He went on to release a record under the name Davy Jones before changing it due to the emergence of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifty years ago today, on the stage of London's Hammersmith Odeon, David Bowie killed Ziggy Stardust. Of course, it was not a ...

“DAVID BOWIE IS ZIGGY STARDUST” the press release from RCA Records blasted out to the world on June 16, 1972. With the eventual breakout single “Starman” already percolating on the U.K. charts, and ...

If David Bowie's 1969 single “Space Oddity” finally brought him to the U.K. pop charts, then his 1972 album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, transformed the once-unknown ...

As the song goes, "Ziggy played guitar..." And then, in 1973, he stopped. But David Bowie's career carried on for decades thereafter. To explain: Friday, July 3 marks 53 years since Bowie performed ...

When David Bowie released his fifth album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, on June 16, 1972, he not only transformed the trajectory of his career; with the Ziggy ...

David Bowie and The Monkees were very different artists. Despite this, Bowie compared one of his most famous personas, Ziggy Stardust, to The Monkees. He felt the Prefab Four were lacking compared to ...

Today is the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest albums of all time, David Bowie‘s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. For the occasion, the album is getting a 50th ...

Everyone wanted to be near Ziggy Stardust when he touched down. The androgynous, alien alter ego of David Bowie transformed the “Space Oddity” singer into a larger-than-life glam rock god. And while ...