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Would they be acknowledged again? Could hairs be raised by listening to music twice in a lifetime? The rest of it’s not bad either…īack in 1972, in a suburban bedroom doubtless scarred with quite horrible wallpaper, our wide-eyed teenaged listener has been locked in the recovery position since 2 minutes 15 seconds into Five Years when Bowie admitted once seeing them in an ice cream parlour.
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And you really can’t argue with Star-MAN any more than you can with Life On MARS. Leaving nothing to chance, Bowie dropped the octave bomb not once but twice to launch his career. The greatest Tin Pan Alley octave leap of all time is Judy Garland’s delivery of the word ‘ Some-WHERE’ in Over The Rainbow. When it came to songwriting, Bowie most certainly knew his craft. It initiates an emotional response in the listener, songwriters know not to use it too often, to wear it out, but employed in the right song, it’ll launch a career. You cannot go wrong with an octave leap, it’ll guarantee you the back of the sure-fire-hit net every single time. As hairs involuntarily rose on the back of countless necks, Bowie’s enduring star was born. The words “ I think I saw you in an ice cream parlour” initiated a direct link between Bowie and a teenaged constituency that would last a lifetime. With evocative lyrical imagery, Ziggy’s opening track introduced a scenario where ‘earth is really dying’ and as news of its fate echoes through the market square, Bowie, our narrator suddenly breaks from dispassionate description to tear down the fourth wall and draw the listener into the very heart of the narrative.
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Everything here is exactly as it should be: Ronson’s riff’s supreme, Bowie’s vocal exceptional. ‘ Making love with his ego,’ he alienates his fans, then loses his band. As humanity’s final half-decade plays out, this well-hung, snow white-tanned, left-hand guitar-playing man who fell to Earth rises to significant fame only to suffer a self-inflicted - very human - fall from grace. Ziggy’s anthemic signature tune tells a cautionary tale. Climaxing in a deliciously salacious ‘ Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am’-punctuated false ending, Suffragette City is glam rock in excelsis. A little bit Jerry Lee, a little bit Stones, it can easily be interpreted as an insight into how Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars actually sounded as a band.
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Turned down by Mott The Hoople (they took All The Young Dudes instead), Suffragette City is Ziggy’s most unreconstructed rocker. As things rapidly escalate from inspired to ecstatic, Ronson unleashes an überglamtastic concluding guitar solo to die for. Seductively encoded with sci-fi word-play and gay slang, this gender-blurred androgynous ‘mama-papa’ moved on from sexually confused ‘rock ‘n’ rolling bitch’ to happily filling a pew at ‘the church of man-love’. Though presented as Ziggy Stardust’s daydream of fame its lyric revealed its composer’s ultimate goal for Bowie life to imitate Ziggy art.Īnother hangover from Arnold Corns, Ziggy’s third track, and its first opportunity for Mick Ronson to truly rock out, Moonage Daydream was significantly rewritten to introduce and flesh out Ziggy’s titular ‘space invader’. Though ideal as an illustrative vignette to move the Ziggy narrative forward (as our interstellar hero daydreams of rock stardom as the ultimate means by which to disseminate his message of youth empowerment, to be latterly revealed in Starman), Star too had been knocking around in Bowie’s back brain for some time, he’d even tried selling it to other artistes to distance himself from its (clearly autobiographical) narcissism. Starįorget Lazarus, Bowie has never sounded quite so ‘musical theatre’ as he does on Star. Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust (Image credit: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images) 7.
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