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

The moment when all of England had a chance to see Ziggy play guitar has finally been recovered. Archivists have uncovered David Bowie‘s first televised appearance in his Ziggy Stardust persona – a ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The early 1970s were an experimental time for rock music. Fifty years later, one groundbreaking record from that era stands out as the definitive album that changed the genre forever. Bowie, who was ...

When Ziggy Stardust landed in America in 1972, almost no one cared. I remember working at Waxie Maxies, a record store in Rockville, Maryland, where we got a whopping total of 3 copies for our store, ...

David Bowie‘s landmark 1972 album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, will be reissued in a special 40th anniversary edition on June 5th. The record, which was Bowie’s ...

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 ...

In 1972, David Bowie introduced the world to his Ziggy Stardust persona with a performance on the British television show Lift Off With Ayshea. Footage of this TV debut has long been considered lost, ...

When British recording engineer Ken Scott began working with David Bowie on what became the latter’s eponymous 1969 album (a.k.a., Space Oddity), he initially regarded the still-relatively unknown ...