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- Ziggy Stardust
- - 209,878 plays
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David Bowie
Released 1972

Starman
04:13
33,972 plays

Suffragette City
03:25
28,450 plays

Moonage Daydream
04:39
26,321 plays

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- 1
- Five Years
- 04:43
- 17,974 plays

- 2
- Soul Love
- 03:33
- 15,189 plays

- 3
- Moonage Daydream
- 04:39
- 26,321 plays

- 4
- Starman
- 04:13
- 33,972 plays

- 5
- It Ain't Easy
- 02:57
- 12,252 plays

- 6
- Lady Stardust
- 03:21
- 12,435 plays

- 7
- Star
- 02:46
- 10,816 plays

- 8
- Hang on to Yourself
- 02:38
- 11,822 plays

- 9
- Ziggy Stardust
- 03:13
- 21,132 plays

- 10
- Suffragette City
- 03:25
- 28,450 plays

- 11
- Rock & Roll Suicide
- 02:58
- 19,515 plays

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