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 David BowieZiggy Stardust Release Date: 1972 Running Time: 54:40 Label: EMI Music Distribution Rating:  |
Borrowing heavily from Marc Bolan's glam rock and the future shock of A Clockwork Orange, David Bowie reached back to the heavy rock of The Man Who Sold the World for The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Constructed as a loose concept album about an androgynous alien rock star named Ziggy Stardust, the story falls apart quickly, yet Bowie's fractured, paranoid lyrics are evocative of a decadent, decaying future, and the music echoes an apocalyptic, nuclear dread. Fleshing out the off-kilter metallic mix with fatter guitars, genuine pop songs, string sections, keyboards, and a cinematic flourish, Ziggy Stardust is a glitzy array of riffs, hooks, melodrama, and style and the logical culmination of glam. Mick Ronson plays with a maverick flair that invigorates rockers like "Suffragette City," "Moonage Daydream," and "Hang Onto Yourself," while "Lady Stardust," "Five Years," and "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" have a grand sense of staged drama previously unheard of in rock & roll. And that self-conscious sense of theater is part of the reason why Ziggy Stardust sounds so foreign. Bowie succeeds not in spite of his pretensions but because of them, and Ziggy Stardust -- familiar in structure, but alien in performance -- is the first time his vision and execution met in such a grand, sweeping fashion. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
Tracks:
| Title | Composer | Time | |
| 1 | Five Years | Bowie | 4:43 |
| 2 | Soul Love | Bowie | 3:33 |
| 3 | Moonage Daydream | Bowie | 4:39 |
| 4 | Starman | Bowie | 4:13 |
| 5 | It Ain't Easy | Davies | 2:57 |
| 6 | Lady Stardust | Bowie | 3:21 |
| 7 | Star | Bowie | 2:46 |
| 8 | Hang on to Yourself | Bowie | 2:38 |
| 9 | Ziggy Stardust | Bowie | 3:13 |
| 10 | Suffragette City | Bowie | 3:25 |
| 11 | Rock & Roll Suicide | Bowie | 2:58 |
Other Releases:
| Ziggy Stardust [Japan] Release Date: 1972 Label: EMI Music Distribution |
| Ziggy Stardust [Bonus Tracks] Release Date: 1972 Label: Rykodisc |
| Ziggy Stardust [30th Anniversary Edition] Release Date: 1972 Label: Virgin Records |
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