"[33] Ian Fortnam of Classic Rock ranked every track on the album from worst to best placing the song at number four, praising its storytelling, Ronson's guitar work and Bowie's vocal performance. [b] There were also practical reasons behind his decision to retire the character: Bowie's record company RCA refused to finance a third large US tour due to Bowie's management overspending in excess of $300,000 during the 1972 and 1973 tours, as well as disappointing record sales in the US. [5], By the end of the Ziggy Stardust period in 1973, Bowie would spend at least two hours before each concert to have his makeup done. [22][23] A girlfriend recalled his "scrawling notes on a cocktail napkin about a crazy rock star named Iggy or Ziggy", and on his return to England he declared his intention to create a character "who looks like he's landed from Mars". Bowie retired the character on 3 July 1973 at a concert at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, which was filmed and released on the documentary Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

[3] This demo was released as a bonus track on the Rykodisc CD release of Ziggy Stardust in 1990. [19] In the 1960s Bowie had seen Taylor performing live wearing a leg-brace after a car accident, and observed: “It meant that to crouch at the mike, as was his habit, [Taylor] had to shove his injured leg out behind him to, what I thought, great theatrical effect. [13] In a 1973 Mirabelle magazine article, La Roche explained that Bowie bought most of his make-up from a shop in Rome but acquired his "white rice powder" from "Tokyo's Woolworth's equivalent". [36], The character was revisited by Bowie in his next album Aladdin Sane (1973), which topped the UK chart, and was his first number-one album. I packaged a totally credible plastic rock star. [37][38], – David Bowie, in an interview with Rolling Stone, The character received success around the world. "Ziggy Stardust" (song), a song from that album Ziggy Stardust Tour, a concert tour to promote that album and its follow-up Aladdin Sane Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (film), a 1973 documentary and concert film Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture, the soundtrack of that film Described by Bowie as "Ziggy goes to America", it contained songs he wrote while travelling to and across the US during the earlier part of the Ziggy Stardust Tour. [26] Bowie had previously created artificial stage personas in 1970 with his backing band Hype.

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[22] Ziggy has several rock star characteristics: drug use, an enormous cock, and the "too-wasted-to-leave-the-room pallor. Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars ist ein Konzertfilm mit zusätzlichen dokumentarischen Szenen aus dem Jahre 1973.
Ziggy Stardust's look and message of youth liberation are now representative of one of Bowie’s most memorable eras. [9] Ned Raggett of AllMusic noted the song's restraint compared to other songs on the album: "Rather than being one of the album's quick, stone-cold rockers, it's measured, takes its time, is as acoustic as it is electric." [13] Due to the intense nature of his touring life, Bowie felt as though maintaining the Ziggy persona was affecting his own personality and sanity too much; acting the same role over an extended period, it became difficult for him to separate Ziggy Stardust from his own character offstage. [2] Other influences included the Legendary Stardust Cowboy and Kansai Yamamoto, who designed the costumes Bowie wore during the tour. [23] Ultimate Classic Rock placed the song on their list of the top 200 songs of the 1970s, writing that as the centrepiece of Bowie's "greatest album", "in a way, it's also Bowie's story turbocharged through the cosmos, ready for whatever the decade offered him. A performance from that tour is included on the 2010 A Reality Tour DVD and the album of the same title. The eponymous character of the song "Ziggy Stardust" and its parent album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), Ziggy Stardust was retained for Bowie's subsequent concert tour through the United Kingdom, Japan and North America, during which Bowie performed as the character backed by his band The Spiders from Mars. The song has since been included on lists of Bowie's greatest songs, and by some as one of the greatest songs of all time. Musically, it is a glam rock song, like its parent album, and is based around a Ronson guitar riff.

[27][28] Describing his costume as "very spacey", he later explained that his idea for the outfits was to counter the popular image of rock acts at the time, which was "all jeans and long hair". )[58], "I wasn't at all surprised 'Ziggy Stardust' made my career. [24][25] The original recording was never released as a single,[26] but a live version recorded at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium during the Ziggy Stardust Tour was released as a single in France and the United States in 1994 to promote the bootleg album Santa Monica '72 (1994).

[50] Just before the final song of the concert, "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide",[51] Bowie announced, “Of all the shows on this tour, this particular show will remain with us the longest, because not only is it the last show of the tour, but it's the last show that we'll ever do”. Bowie performed the song frequently on the Ziggy Stardust and 1978 Stage tours, and again during his tours in the 2000s. [56], Personnel per Kevin Cann and Chris O'Leary.

This rock stance became position number one for the embryonic Ziggy.”[20] Bowie's lyrical allusions to Taylor include identifying Ziggy as a "leper messiah". "[36] The song is one of four of Bowie's songs included on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of The Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll.
[41][42] Rolling Stone described Ziggy Stardust as the ultimate rock star: "He’s a wild, hedonistic figure ... but at his core communicates peace and love". Bowie, dressed in a blue cape, lurex tights, thigh boots and a leotard with colourful scarves sewn onto his shirt, was "Rainbowman". [14] Bowie's allusions to Taylor include identifying himself as a "leper messiah". Ziggy Stardust is a fictional character created by English musician David Bowie, and was Bowie's alter ego during 1972 and 1973.

The concert featured an 18-song set, with Jeff Beck joining the band for a medley of "The Jean Genie" and The Beatles' "Love Me Do". [5][2] Co-produced by Ken Scott, Bowie recorded it with his backing band known as the Spiders from Mars—comprising Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder and Mick Woodmansey. Influences for the character were English singer Vince Taylor, Texan musician the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, Japanese kabuki theatre, and Japanese fashion designer Kansai Yamamoto, who designed many of Bowie's costumes as Ziggy Stardust. [21], Bowie biographers also propose that Bowie developed the concept of Ziggy as a melding of the persona of Iggy Pop with the music of Lou Reed during a visit to the US in 1971. [34][35], Much of the Ziggy Stardust story was created by Bowie and told in the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, or appears in Bowie’s writings as plans for a never-realised theatrical performance of the narrative. [4] In total, seven costumes were designed for Ziggy Stardust by Yamamoto,[11] some of which Yamamoto had originally designed for women, in the kabuki tradition. The fans and press took this to mean that Bowie was retiring entirely causing much media attention, however it only referred to the Ziggy Stardust persona, and the Spiders from Mars backing band. Over a small series of shows which, while poorly received at the time, are now credited as the origin of glam rock,[27] the band performed in flamboyant costumes, each with an accompanying persona of a spoof superhero. He also complimented Bowie's vocal performance and called the song a "total classic. [10], By August 1972, Bowie was introducing Kansai Yamamoto's designs as stage wear for the Ziggy character. [2], Bowie performed the song throughout the Ziggy Stardust Tour (1972–1973), and it can be heard on Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture (1983) and Live Santa Monica '72 (2008). Dabei wurde ein Konzert des Musikers David Bowie mit seiner Band, den Spiders from Mars, gefilmt. "[35] In 2010, the song ranked at number 282 on their list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

[2] He also describes himself as "the Nazz", which was the American comedian Lord Buckley's nickname for Christ (as in "Nazarene"), as well as the name of several former backing bands for Todd Rundgren and Alice Cooper; Cooper had also fronted a group known as the Spiders in 1965. [5] Bowie's mullet was cut and dyed, using peroxide and German hair dye to achieve the orange-red colour, by hairdresser Suzi Fussey,[6][7] who accompanied the Ziggy Stardust tour until 1973. [21] O'Leary notes that the song's narrator is not definitive: it could be an audience member retrospectively discussing Ziggy, it could be one of the Spiders or even the "dissociated memories" of Ziggy himself. Tapes were running and once they heard the track, they were "absolutely enthralled" and decided to include it during their upcoming BBC session for John Peel. [65], According to AllMusic's Dave Thompson, the band were "killing some downtime" at Trident Studios in London when members Haskins and Daniel Ash began an impromptu jam of "Ziggy Stardust" as a "joking tribute" to "the artist with whom virtually every critic in the land had now compared Bauhaus." [10] Doggett describes the final seconds: "Then, after one of the most perfectly judged pauses ever captured on vinyl, there was "Suffragette City". A second electric guitar riff, inspired by the American rock band the Byrds, what Doggett calls a "jingle-jangle", is also present but almost buried in the mix.

"[2] Pegg also notes the presence of Lou Reed of the Velvet Underground in the line "came on so loaded man". [45][54], In 2012, a plaque was unveiled by the Crown Estate at the site at which the iconic Ziggy Stardust album cover photograph was taken by Brian Ward on Heddon Street, London. "[2] The line "Ziggy sucked up into his mind" reprises the line "your laughter is sucked in their brains" from the Hunky Dory track "Queen Bitch". Buckley calls his renditions during this tour "heart-stopping". Meanwhile, children around the world have become obsessed with rock ‘n’ roll music, and came to look to the rock star Ziggy Stardust as a prophet. Bowie explained, "I wanted to take the hardness and violence of those Clockwork Orange outfits — the trousers tucked into big boots and the codpiece things — and soften them up by using the most ridiculous fabrics. As the end nears, Stardust prophesises of the “Starman” waiting in the sky, who will come to save the earth. [11] The character was inspired by English rock 'n' roll singer Vince Taylor, whom Bowie met after Taylor had a breakdown and believed himself to be a cross between a god and an alien,[12][13] though Taylor was only part of the character's blueprint. [57][58], sales+streaming figures based on certification alone, The English gothic rock band Bauhaus recorded a version of "Ziggy Stardust" as their eighth single. [37], Bowie recorded the song for the BBC radio programmes Sounds of the 70s: John Peel and Bob Harris on 11 and 18 January 1972, respectively.

[32] The same publication, on their list of Bowie's ten best songs, listed "Ziggy Stardust" at number six, praising Ronson's guitar hook, writing, "[it] gives the song as much of its personality as Bowie's lyrics do.

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