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Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture [Limited Edition] [Live] [Original recording reissued] [Original recording remastered]

~ David Bowie
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Product details

  • Audio CD (24 Mar 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Limited Edition, Live, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
  • Label: EMI
  • ASIN: B00007MF8Y
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 38,049 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc: 1
1. Intro - Ninth Symphony
2. Hang On To Yourself
3. Ziggy Stardust
4. Watch That Man
5. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
6. All The Young Dudes
7. Oh! You Pretty Things
8. Moonage Daydream
9. Changes
10. Space Oddity
See all 11 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Intro (Contains William Tell Overture)
2. Cracked Actor
3. Time
4. The Width Of A Circle
5. Let's Spend The Night Together
6. Suffragette City
7. White Light/White Heat
8. Farewell Speech
9. Rock 'n' Roll Suicide/Pomp And Circumstance: March No.1

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When David Bowie killed off his fatalistic rock-star character Ziggy Stardust, he also announced his retirement from live performance. His "final" concert was filmed and the soundtrack sat on a shelf for a decade before its release in 1983. ZIGGY STARDUST -THE MOTION PICTURE is an interesting audiosnapshot that represents the Ziggy Stardust arc and incorporates a few different facets of Bowie's career up to that point. Starting with the ragged, garage-rock metre of "Hang onto Yourself", Bowie introduces his beloved alien ("Ziggy Stardust"), and flirts with his flamboyant side (the medley of"Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud/All The Young Dudes/Oh! You Pretty Things").
From here, Ziggy's transition ("Changes")into messianic figure takes him through a host of rock-starrealities ("Let's Spend The Night Together", "White Light/White Heat") before his meteoric rise gets snuffed out in a flash ("Rock 'N' Roll Suicide"). Throughout the performance, it is easy to see how Bowie's combination of solid rock & roll aesthetics and over-the-top theatricality eventually spawned and shaped everything from glam-rock to later developments such as punk and Madonna. This is one of Bowie's best andmost underrated live performances.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, 27 Mar 2003
By Fan (WATFORD, HERTS United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
I first bought this about 15 years ago on cassette and loved it then even though the sound was ropey and it was heavily edited. When this 30th anniversary edition came out remastered and in the impressive presentation package I had to get it........it was like listening to it for the fist time. This really is a piece of history, ok the sound isn't perfect (a lot better than before) but the atmosphere really comes through. My favourite is the medley of Wildeyed boy from Freecloud/All the Young Dudes/Oh! You Pretty Things, My Death (brilliant for the final concert and where Bowie tells the audience to shut up!), and Width of a Circle. Mick Ronson will have all air guitar freaks jumping around their living room throw in Mike Garson on piano and this concert is about as good as it gets! Loved the red CD's and packaging........a must for all fans!!
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars If only every release contained this much effort..., 24 Mar 2003
By Alex Moseley (Leicester, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
A phenomenal item which stands apart from the DVD released in tandem as a must-have package in its own right.
First impressions hark back to the days of opening that treasured new gatefold and finding goodies spilling out with the LP sleeve: within the evocative box are a poster containing press clippings, a reproduction ticket stub (how many people will sit at B17 I wonder?), a booklet and the two CDs - themselves in neon red to match the overriding chroma of the movie footage.
But enough of the ephemera. The remix has brought the concert back to life in dramatic style: the drums are loud, the guitars sqeal, Bowie and the crowd are in fine voice. Regardless of the status of this gig as the famous 'Last One', as presented here this concert stands out as one of the all-time great recorded events.
If you like Bowie, if you want a slice of the 1970s at the Hammersmith Odeon, if you want to avoid searching online auctions for this gem in future years, get it.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Bowie's definitive live album?, 30 Mar 2003
By D. Wright "davewright29" - See all my reviews
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David Bowie's live albums have always been quite controversial and I don't believe he has produced a 'definitive' one in the sense of the Stones 'Get You Ya Ya's Out' or The Who's 'Live At Leeds' are for those two bands. Indeed it would appear 'David Live' and 'Stage' are both presently delated, although doubtless they will be made available again at some point - maybe when their own annniversaries come round? The other Ziggy era live album, Santa Monica, also seems to be unavailable. So this soundtrack of the last Ziggy concert is the only official Bowie live album currently available, unless you count the 2000 BBC concert which was issued with some editions of the BBC sessions.
Many fans have their own favourites but personally I still think the Ziggy era was far and away Bowie's best, so I was looking forward to hearing this album for the first time.
I had read previous reports that the sound quality was somewhat dubious in places and that the earlier Santa Monica performance sounded better as it was recorded from a radio broadcast. However, I need not have feared as for the most part the sound on this new version is excellent. The only track I thought suffered in any way was the opening 'Hang On To Yourself.'
I haven't heard the Santa Monica album so can't compare the two, but the track listings are quite different as this concert contains some 'Aladdin Sane' tracks which was Bowie's latest release at the time, and an album I always feel is cruelly underated in the Bowie canon.
The only tracks featured which I don't have either studio or BBC versions of are an excellent version of Jacques Brel's 'My Death' when Bowie finally gets the audience to shut up, and a snatch of Bowie's own, never released as a studio version, 'All the Young Dudes'. This is done as part of a medley and I must say I would have preferred the full version.
My only real gripes with this album are that it is a quite short for a double and that we don't get the full concert, as the encores of 'Jean Genie' and a couple of other songs are missing. These featured Jeff Beck and presumably aren't included because of contractual difficulties. Also we get the full 14 minutes plus version of 'Width Of A Circle' which in previous releases was edited by about five minutes and one can understand why.
However, all in all this is a fine memento of one of the legendary concerts.
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