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David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust The Motion Picture [DVD] [1983]

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Actors: David Bowie, Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder
Directors: D.A. Pennebaker
Format: PAL, Special Edition
Language English
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: Exempt
Studio: EMI
DVD Release Date: 24 Mar 2003
Run Time: 90 minutes

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

ASIN: B00008AWUV
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 59,132 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Packaging: Clamshell box; Poster booklet; 8 page booklet
Tracklisting tbc: 1/ Opening Credits/Intro; 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; 11/My Death; 12/Cracked Actor; 13/Time; 14/Width Of A Circle; 15/Band Introduction; 16/Let’s Spend The Night Together; 17/Suffragette City; 18/White Light White Heat; 19/Farewell Speech; 20/Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide; 21/End Credits

Other Content: The DVD will feature remastered footage and new stereo and 5.1 mixes by Tony Visconti, as well as a commentary by Visconti and the director D.A. Pennebaker.

Synopsis

The quintessential moment in glam-rock history, ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS is David Bowie at his best. This film of the 1973 concert (released 10 years later) documents the hallucinogenic collage of kitsch, Warhol/Pop irony, and flamboyant excess that was the Bowie phenomenon: his trademark synthetic androgyny is a musical symbiosis of feminine passion and masculine dominance that define his funky, gender-bending art and, ultimately, the glam-rock genre as a whole. Early on, the film cuts to elaborate backstage costume changes between sets, highlighting a playlist that includes such classics as "Changes," "Space Oddity," "Time," and "Suffragette City." In this comprehensive document of a seminal peformer in music history, director D.A. Pennebaker captures the enigmatic singer's smoldering brilliance like a Hubble photograph of a supernova; it is essential viewing for Bowie fans and music historians alike.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Ziggy Played Guitar, 25 Aug 2003

By	Mr. W. White (UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Famously, but incorrectly, touted as Ziggy Stardust's "retirement gig" this legendary concert was recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon on 3rd July 1973 (it was actually after the 1980 Floor Show, on 20th October the same year that Ziggy bowed out). In common with the Sex Pistols 100 club gig, if everybody who claims to have been there actually was, then there must have been 100,000 there that night!

By no means well recorded - it's taken 30 years of mixing to get "right", and in my opinion the drum sound is now even worse - it remains the definitive live Bowie recording. The Spiders were a wonderfully tight band and just the right side of messy. For those of us lucky enough to have heard the original recording, with Ronson's guitar overpowering everything, including, occasionally, Bowie's voice, this is a bit of a letdown. However, Bowie's voice is wonderful, with an effortless clarity that's missing from subsequent live recordings such as DAVID LIVE and STAGE.

The video is by Pennebaker, famous for his Dylan fly on the wall documentary "Don't Look back". Shaky camera work, and out of focus zooms, more often than not result in Bowie looking like a grainy red blob amid a sea of blackness. However, in my opinion this actually adds to the mysterious aura that Bowie built around Ziggy. It looks like the film had to be pushed quite hard to get anything out of it at all - this could possibly be the first grunge video! The Odeon looks like a huge, heaving cavern. It's a million miles away from the polished Glass Spider and all the better for it. Considering the state of the original print I was dubious as to whether it could be improved for this DVD release. It couldn't.

Previously unreleased additions include the complete "Width Of A Circle", some between song banter, and commentary by Pennebaker and Visconti. Unfortunately the additions are not what fans have waited 30 years for. Disgracefully, The Jean Genie/Love me Do, on which Jeff Beck joined the Spiders onstage to play guitar is STILL missing. Whether this is down to a royalty dispute or Beck's embarrassment of his glam rags is anybody's guess, but the omission seriously undermines this release.

Until the complete show is released, Bowie Fans will continue to feel short changed. Come on Mr Beck - sort it out!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute Perfection, 6 May 2007

By	Ziggy Stardust "Rebel" (Harringay) - See all my reviews

Wow - this is hotter than the surface of Mars.
This final concert by DAVID DOWIE as Ziggy Stardust is the best live show in the history of rock`n`roll.
Magic moments are the performences of ZIGGY - My Death - Rock`n`Roll Suicide...songs that will never date.
Without ZIGGY there would of been no JOEY TEEN or The Buzz Kids - and for that fact alone I will always worship at the feet of Ziggy Stardust and David Bowie.

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