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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars: Remastered
 
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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars: Remastered [Enhanced]
~ David Bowie (Artist)
4.7 out of 5 stars  (42 customer reviews)
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Product details
  • Audio CD (6 Sep 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Enhanced
  • Label: EMI
  • ASIN: B00001OH7P
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  (42 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 641 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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11. Rock & Roll Suicide

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Of all David Bowie's many distinctive personae, none have done more to lodge this most ingenious of British artists in the world's consciousness than his 1972 amalgam of the alien visitor and Christ-like rock star: Ziggy Stardust. Cheap glamour, spacemen and ambiguous sexuality surface throughout the loosely conceptualised collection that is The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. If its premise sounds faintly ludicrous, then inspired and dramatic songs such as "Starman" and "Five Years" dispel all doubts about Bowie's genius, and the theatrically tragic "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" brings the album and it's fictional protagonist to a close. As a cultural and musical signpost, Ziggy Stardust points simultaneously backwards to early rock & roll and forward to the simpler, tougher inclinations of late-1970s punk and New Wave rock. As one of the defining rock albums of the 20th century, its influence is immeasurable. --James Littlewood

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Every track on ZIGGY STARDUST & THE SPIDERS FROM MARS sounds like it was pulled from the rock 'n' roll bible. The albumcreated a mythology that reached beyond the Chuck Berry folklorisms of the everyday rocker to create a new type of rockstar. With ZIGGY, Bowie created a viable alter-ego to descend onto the planet and wreak havoc on rock's fertile soil. In doing so, he created the most original rock creation sincethe music's inception 20 years before.
Musically, the album was as inspired as Ziggy's persona. Mick Ronson's snarling guitar evoked the triumphant power of the late '60s guitar heroes, but added a flash so dynamic fans knew why the Spiders were labelled "glitter rockers". As an album, ZIGGY STARDUST told the story of rock through the eyes of Ziggy, an alien--with a narrative that was equally sensational and intimate.
Any doubts as to Bowie's intentions to take over rock were displaced on a closer listen to "Star". At the end of the song Bowie (as Ziggy) whispers, "just watch me now", and his determination is eerily obvious. Combining skills as a mime artist and top-rate vocal dramatist, Bowie created Ziggy, the bisexual space man, who sang "songs of darkness anddisgrace". The planet was dying, something made evident on the first track "Five Years", and the only way to survive was to "Hang On To Yourself".
In the end, "they had to break up the band", according to the tale told in ZIGGY STARDUST, but the inevitably tragic strains of this "Rock 'N' Roll Suicide" had left their mark on the dying planet. They are still being felt today.