By. Photography: Brian Ward Colouring: Terry Pastor of Main Artery Released: June 1972 Label: RCA Producers: Ken Scott, David Bowie 1. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1972 Vinyl release of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars on Discogs. Up next for the Counterbalance series is David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Cases in point: Freddie Mercury, Elton John, Alice Cooper, Marc Bolan and, of course, David Bowie —particularly when the latter assumed an alter-ego, Ziggy Stardust, in time for the 1972 classic, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Starman (2012 Remastered Version) 5. It Ain't Easy (2012 Remastered Version) 6. He had previously toyed with loose thematic links, such as the meditations on madness in The Man Who Sold The World, or the pen portraits on the second half of Hunky Dory, but The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars was perhaps his most focused offering to date. Lady Stardust (2012 Remastered Version) 7. 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 … Soul Love (2012 Remastered Version) 3. David Bowie’s fifth album was his first to be promoted as a concept album. The Ziggy Stardust concept. 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 and 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 …

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