(Rock) [LP] [24/96] David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - 1972/1981 (MFSL 1-064), FLAC (tracks)

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1981 MFSL Remaster)

Жанр: Rock
Год выхода альбома: 1972
Год выпуска диска: 1981
Производитель дисков: US - MFSL - 1-064
Аудио кодек: flac
Тип рипа: tracks
Формат записи: 24/96
Формат раздачи: 24/96
Продолжительность: 38:42

Треклист:
1. Five Years - 4:44
2. Soul Love - 3:35
3. Moonage Daydream - 4:40
4. Starman - 4:15
5. It Ain’t Easy - 2:58
6. Lady Stardust - 3:22
7. Star - 2:58
8. Hang on to Yourself - 2:40
9. Ziggy Stardust - 3:14
10. Suffragette City - 3:26
11. Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide - 3:01

Описание:
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (often shortened to Ziggy Stardust) is a 1972 concept album by English musician David Bowie, which is loosely based on a story of a rock star named Ziggy Stardust. It peaked at number five in the United Kingdom and number 75 in the United States on the Billboard Music Charts. A concert film of the same name directed by D.A. Pennebaker was released in 1973.

Concept

The album presents, albeit vaguely, the story of a rock and roll character called “Ziggy Stardust”. Ziggy is the human manifestation of an alien being who is attempting to present humanity with a message of hope in the last five years of its existence. Ziggy Stardust is the definitive rock star: sexually promiscuous, wild in drug intake and with a message, ultimately, of peace and love; but he is destroyed both by his own excesses of drugs and sex, and by the fans he inspired.

The character of Ziggy was initially inspired by British rock ‘n’ roll singer Vince Taylor whom Bowie met after Taylor had had a breakdown and believed himself to be a cross between a god and an alien; though Taylor was only part of the blueprint for the character, other influences included the Legendary Stardust Cowboy and Kansai Yamamoto, who designed the costumes Bowie wore during the tour. The Ziggy Stardust name came partly from the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, and partly, as Bowie told Rolling Stone, because Ziggy was “one of the few Christian names I could find beginning with the letter ‘Z’”. He later explained in a 1990 interview for Q Magazine that the Ziggy part came from a tailor’s shop called Ziggy’s that he passed on a train, and he liked it because it had “that Iggy [as in Iggy Pop] connotation but it was a tailor’s shop, and I thought, Well, this whole thing is gonna be about clothes, so it was my own little joke calling him Ziggy. So Ziggy Stardust was a real compilation of things.”

“Stardust” comes from one of Bowie’s labelmates, a country singer named Norman Carl Odam, The Legendary Stardust Cowboy. Bowie covered a Legendary Stardust Cowboy song, “I Took a Trip (On a Gemini Spaceship)” thirty years later on Heathen.

Музыканты:
David Bowie – vocals, acoustic guitar, saxophone, piano, harpsichord
Mick Ronson – guitars, piano, backing vocals, string arrangement
Trevor Bolder – bass
Mick Woodmansey – drums
Dana Gillespie – backing vocals on “It Ain’t Easy”
Lindsay Scott – violin on 12

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