David Bowie proved many times over that the best way to be yourself is to become someone else for a while. In the case of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, it was an androgynous alien rock ...

There’s also a 36-page reproduction of Bowie's personal Ziggy Stardust-era notebooks with song lyrics and sketches that makes it feel even more like a must for Bowie fans. Support local journalism.

It certainly could be argued that the fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars began almost a year to the day before that final concert — on July 6, 1972, when Bowie’s culture-shifting ...

“DAVID BOWIE IS ZIGGY STARDUST” the press release from RCA Records blasted out to the world on June 16, 1972. With the eventual breakout single “Starman” already percolating on the U.K ...

It's probably safe to assume that anyone who clicked on this article already knows the context of David Bowie's culture-shifting 1972 album "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders ...

that he was forming a new band featuring himself as a character named Ziggy Stardust. (He asked Wakeman to join, although the keyboardist opted to join Yes instead.) Equally significantly ...

When David Bowie released his fifth album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, on June 16, 1972, he not only transformed the trajectory of his career; with the Ziggy ...

That was the day David Bowie retired his most famous – and career-defining – alter ego, Ziggy Stardust, after a triumphant sold-out concert at London's Hammersmith Odeon Theatre. Bowie played ...

Over the two years that followed, Bowie's Ziggy Stardust character would launch him into the pop culture stratosphere and Ronson was swept along as the hair and wardrobe specialist who helped ...

The tracks are from the late artist’s fifth studio album, “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars,” released in June 1972. David Bowie arrives at King's Cross Station ...