David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

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Album Details

Title: Ziggy Stardust
Artist: David Bowie
Release Date: 1972
Label: EMI, Virgin
Duration: 54:40
Album Type(s): lyrics/libretto, Enhanced CD-ROM
UPCs: 724352190003, 0094638232926, 014431013447, 077779440023, 114431013413, 114431013444, 724352190058, 009463823292, 724352190027
Genre: Rock
Styles: Singer/Songwriter, Hard Rock, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Glam Rock, Pop/Rock, Proto-Punk, Album Rock
Moods: Brooding, Clinical, Eccentric, Eerie, Stylish, Bravado, Cerebral, Complex, Detached, Dramatic, Elegant, Enigmatic, Exciting, Literate, Lush, Nocturnal, Playful, Provocative, Quirky, Rebellious, Sophisticated, Swaggering, Tense/Anxious, Theatrical, Urgent, Wry, Campy, Hypnotic, Intense, Ironic, Sexy, Yearning, Outrageous, Austere, Elaborate, Refined/Mannered
Total Copies: 0
Members Wishing: 9
Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

Track Listings

  1. Five Years
  2. Soul Love
  3. Moonage Daydream
  4. Starman
  5. It Ain't Easy
  6. Lady Stardust
  7. Star
  8. Hang on to Yourself
  9. Ziggy Stardust
  10. Suffragette City
  11. Rock & Roll Suicide

Additional Releases

YearTypeLabelCatalog #
2007CDEMI3823292
2003CDVirgin21900
1999CDEMI
1999CDVirgin21900
1999CDVirgin21900
1990CDEMI3577

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Album Review

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

Credits

NameCredits
Brian WardPhotography, Photography
Dana GillespieVocals (Background)
David BowieMain Performer, Arranger, Saxophone, Producer, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
Ken ScottProducer
Kevin CannRepackaging Design
Mick "Woody" WoodmanseyGroup Member, Drums
Mick RockPhotography
Mick RonsonVocals, Guitar, Arranger, Group Member, Piano
Nigel ReeveProject Coordinator, Remastering
Paul HicksSurround Sound
Peter MewRemastering
Rick WakemanHarpsichord, Keyboards
Terry PastorArtwork
Trevor BolderGroup Member, Bass