David Bowie‘s quasi-concept album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars delivered him to new levels of stardom and introduced one of the most iconic alter egos of his career.
The Easy Star All-Stars take on the Spiders from Mars. By Patricia Meschino From its grim, cinematic observations about the apocalypse on opening track “Five Years” to the haunting reassurance that we ...
“The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” was a defining moment in the history of the glam-rock era and — it could be argued — rock ‘n’ roll in general, announcing the arrival of ...
A sheet of paper containing David Bowie’s handwritten lyrics to two songs from one of his most acclaimed albums could fetch more than $125,000 when it’s sold at auction early next week. One side of ...
David Bowie proved many times over that the best way to be yourself is to become someone else for a while. In the case of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, it was an androgynous alien rock ...
Bowie’s brilliant 1971-1980 hot streak — one of the greatest bursts of creativity in contemporary music history — began in 1971 with the “Hunky Dory” album and soared into the stratosphere with “Ziggy ...
“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 ...