{"id":54866,"date":"2022-07-06T12:03:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T17:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/?p=54866"},"modified":"2022-07-06T12:51:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T17:51:37","slug":"ziggy-stardust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/ziggy-stardust\/","title":{"rendered":"When Bowie Created Ziggy: 50 years of Sci-Fi Rock \u2018n Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"produ-leaderboard-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;margin-bottom: 30px!important;\" id=\"produ-3901568615\"><script async=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/securepubads.g.doubleclick.net\/tag\/js\/gpt.js\"><\/script>\n<script> var googletag = googletag || {}; googletag.cmd = googletag.cmd || [];<\/script>\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-5213487866545-0\">\n  <script>\n\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() {\n\t\t\t\tgoogletag.defineSlot( '\/21927241144\/728x90-Leaderboard', [728,90], 'gpt-ad-5213487866545-0' )\n\t\t.addService(googletag.pubads());\n\t\t\t\twindow.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers = window.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers || {};\n\t\tconst timers                     = window.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers;\n\n\t\ttimers['gpt-ad-5213487866545-0'] = setTimeout( function () {\n\t\t\tconst id = 'gpt-ad-5213487866545-0';\n\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t}, 1000 );\n\n\t\tif ( typeof window.advadsGamHasEmptySlotListener === 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\tgoogletag.pubads().addEventListener( 'slotRequested', function ( ev ) {\n\t\t\t\tconst id = ev.slot.getSlotElementId();\n\t\t\t\tif ( typeof timers[id] === 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\t\t\treturn;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tclearTimeout( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\ttimers[id] = setTimeout( function () {\n\t\t\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t}, 2500 );\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\tgoogletag.pubads().addEventListener( 'slotResponseReceived', function ( ev ) {\n\t\t\t\tconst id = ev.slot.getSlotElementId();\n\t\t\t\tif ( typeof timers[id] !== 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\t\t\tclearTimeout( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tif ( ! ev.slot.getResponseInformation() ) {\n\t\t\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\twindow.advadsGamHasEmptySlotListener = true;\n\t\t}\n\n\t\tgoogletag.enableServices();\n\t\tgoogletag.display( 'gpt-ad-5213487866545-0' );\n\t} );\n  <\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_raw_html]JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwd2lkdGglM0QlMjI1NjAlMjIlMjBoZWlnaHQlM0QlMjIzMTUlMjIlMjBzcmMlM0QlMjJodHRwcyUzQSUyRiUyRnd3dy55b3V0dWJlLmNvbSUyRmVtYmVkJTJGd0VwcTVLamlQZlUlMjIlMjB0aXRsZSUzRCUyMllvdVR1YmUlMjB2aWRlbyUyMHBsYXllciUyMiUyMGZyYW1lYm9yZGVyJTNEJTIyMCUyMiUyMGFsbG93JTNEJTIyYWNjZWxlcm9tZXRlciUzQiUyMGF1dG9wbGF5JTNCJTIwY2xpcGJvYXJkLXdyaXRlJTNCJTIwZW5jcnlwdGVkLW1lZGlhJTNCJTIwZ3lyb3Njb3BlJTNCJTIwcGljdHVyZS1pbi1waWN0dXJlJTIyJTIwYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuJTNFJTNDJTJGaWZyYW1lJTNF[\/vc_raw_html][vc_column_text]\n<p><b><i>When Bowie Created Ziggy: 50 years of Sci-Fi Rock \u2018n Roll<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Written by Caitlin Vaughn Carlos\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">50 years ago, the world was introduced to Ziggy Stardust &#8211; David Bowie\u2019s iconic, early seventies alter-ego.\u00a0 Ziggy was the titular character in Bowie\u2019s 1972 masterpiece album <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; a record which charted completely new waters in popular music, bringing together diverse genres and kicking off the sound worlds of glam rock and proto-punk.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Bowie was born David Robert Jones in Brixton England in 1947.\u00a0 He first began recording and performing under the name Davie Jones in the mid-sixties, but eventually changed to David Bowie to avoid confusion with Davy Jones of the Monkees. From the beginning, his music stood apart and he explored many different styles, from blues and folk, to the diverse interests of the mods. His first album was not very commercially successful and his first breakthrough hit came from his second album\u2026the timely 1969 \u201cSpace Oddity\u201d &#8211; a haunting track that explored the darker, more anxious side of space travel and was released just ahead of the first moon landing.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As he moved into the seventies, Bowie started experimenting with different stage personas, one of which was Ziggy Stardust. He also started exploring darker thematic concepts and harder rock sounds.\u00a0 Ziggy\u2019s character was groundbreaking &#8211; an adrogynous, alien rockstar from Mars who had come to save the world. As Bowie explained in 1977: \u201cI wanted to define the archetype of the messiah rock star. That\u2019s all I wanted to do. And I used the trappings of Kabuki theater, mime technique, fringe New York music (my references were Velvet Underground)&#8230;.so Ziggy for me was a very simplistic thing. It was what it seemed to be &#8211; an alien rock star.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But for audiences, Ziggy was so much more. As the album introduced more background information on the character and as he developed across Bowie\u2019s stage shows, David Bowie <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">became <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ziggy Stardust in the eyes of the public.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The album\u2019s opening track, \u201cFive Years,\u201d introduces the dramatic and conceptual ideas of the album. It describes earth\u2019s collapse, and the reactions of the people as they learn they only have five more years left to live. The song has a lilting feel and the repetition of the \u201cfive years\u201d chorus occurs several times in the song. The chorus and its bright, block chords on the piano create a dizzying, almost carousel-like effect.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSoul Love\u201d goes in a different direction musically.\u00a0 \u201cFive Years\u201d and \u201cSoul Love\u201d are rhythmically similar, but \u201cSoul Love\u201d uses different percussive effects including hand-clapping and hand drums.The addition of the brass instruments, and a brighter musical arrangement give a more optimistic tone despite the fact that the song is still detailing reactions of humans to earth\u2019s demise.\u00a0 Only this time, the lyrics focus on their actions of love towards one another.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With \u201cMoonage Daydream,\u201d we are finally introduced to the character of Ziggy Stardust, who has come to save the world.\u00a0 The song was actually originally recorded in 1971 and released under Bowie&#8217;s short-lived band Arnold Corns. Bowie reimagined the song for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ziggy Stardust<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with a new first verse introducing the character as an \u201calligator\u201d, \u201cmama-papa\u201d, \u201cspace invader\u201d and \u201crock and roll bitch\u201d. The new version, recorded in a lower key, is vocally stronger for Bowie and is performed with a confident swagger that fits his Ziggy persona perfectly.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The album\u2019s fourth track also provides its lead single. With \u201cStarman,\u201d Ziggy introduces the people of earth to their first sense of hope. He explained to Beat writer William S. Burroughs in a conversation for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rolling Stone <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">magazine in 1973: \u200b\u200b<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Ziggy is advised in a dream by the infinites to write the coming of a starman, so he writes &#8220;Starman&#8221;, which is the first news of hope that the people have heard. So they latch onto it immediately. The starmen that he is talking about are called the infinites, and they are black-hole jumpers. Ziggy has been talking about this amazing spaceman who will be coming down to save the earth. They arrive somewhere in Greenwich Village. They don\u2019t have a care in the world and are of no possible use to us. They just happened to stumble into our universe by black-hole jumping. Their whole life is traveling from universe to universe. In the stage show, one of them resembles Brando, another one is a black New Yorker. I even have one called Queenie the Infinite Fox.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cStarman\u201d starts out mellow, with an acoustic guitar and Bowie\u2019s gentle vocals.\u00a0 But it builds as the song progresses, adding keyboard, string orchestration and guitar solos. Its iconic chorus still resonates with generations today. The song is a fantastic blurring of rock \u2018n roll nostalgia with contemporary, fully orchestrated songwriting.\u00a0 The song ends with a fuzzy guitar solo while Bowie sings nonsensical \u201cla la\u201d lyrics (in a sound reminiscent of early rock and roll and doo wop). And yet the orchestration and thematic concepts are clearly post-sixties rock writing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt Ain\u2019t Easy\u201d represents a departure from the rest of the album. Written by American singer-songwriter Ron Davies, it\u2019s the only cover song in the entire album. Released in 1970 by Davies, it also was covered by Three Dog Night that same year on their album of the same name. Lyrically, It\u2019s reflective of changing environments and times. The song has more of an American, country-influence sound to it, with a harder guitar sound on the chorus. Despite being a cover song (never intended by its author for the context of Ziggy\u2019s apocalyptic Earth), in the hands of Bowie and his musicians, the song fits into the raw, rock \u2018n roll mythology of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ziggy Stardust<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> album.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>\u201c<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lady Stardust\u201d brings us back to a piano heavy track, with clear musical similarities to Elton John\u2019s work of the same time. It opens with lyrics that nod to Glam Rock as Bowie sings \u201cPeople stared at the makeup on his face, laughed at his long black hair and animal grace.\u201d\u00a0 Glam rock was an emerging style at this time and certainly Bowie made his mark on this style through Ziggy and other performative works. But he wasn\u2019t the first artist to explore costumes, stage personas and makeup. And this song idolizes that particular scene.\u00a0 It also has an air of tragedy to it. The piano part is almost sentimental as lyrics and melody (especially in the chorus) nostalgically remember a past musical experience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cStar\u201d builds up the energy again with its pulsating keyboard part and early rock \u2018n roll energy.\u00a0 Like the end of \u201cStarman\u201d it incorporates nonsensical vocal parts, this time very much in the style of doowop and early rock \u2018n roll background vocals. The lyrics directly address the idea of becoming a rock \u2018n roll star and, in the context of Ziggy, show the challenges he faced in coming to earth to save a people who no longer wanted rock \u2018n roll. In his conversation with Burroughs, Bowie explained: \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ziggy is in a position where all the kids have access to things that they thought they wanted. The older people have lost all touch with reality and the kids are left on their own to plunder anything. Ziggy was in a rock &amp; roll band and the kids no longer want rock &amp; roll.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHang on to Yourself\u201d is another song originally recorded and released under Bowie\u2019s band Arnold Corns. Like \u201cMoonage Daydream,\u201d it was re-imagined and re-recorded for inclusion on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ziggy Stardust<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The lyrics in the verses are quite different from the Arnold Corn version. In the Ziggy version, it specifically references the \u201cSpiders from Mars,\u201d which is the name of Ziggy\u2019s rock and roll band. It continues the rock \u2018n roll energy of \u201cStar\u201d but with a more aggressive, proto-punk edge. While both versions are guitar driven, with its classic riff, the Ziggy version has a harder edge and, in fact, has been credited with influencing the Sex Pistol\u2019s \u2018God Save the Queen.\u201d\u00a0 The bassline, according to Sex Pistol\u2019s Glen Matlock, also influenced his playing on \u201cNo Feelings\u201d from the band\u2019s debut album.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It isn\u2019t until halfway through the second side that we finally get to Ziggy\u2019s title track. The song was written in 1971, around the same time as \u201cLady Stardust\u201d.\u00a0 The song gives a portrait of Ziggy\u2019s character and is incredibly descriptive. In addition to his physical appearance, the song describes that Ziggy played guitar left-handed. Many interpretations connect this reference to Jimi Hendrix, especially since later in the song he sings: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cZiggy played for time, jiving us that we were voodoo.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The song is a narrative masterpiece so that by the end of it, we have a very clear understanding of many facets of the Ziggy character.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But it is also musically fascinating. A fuzzy guitar riff, played by Mick Ronson, opens up the track with a clear rock \u2018n roll sound. The acoustic guitar<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was played by Bowie and brings a warmth to what is otherwise a bright, treble-y track. Trevor Bolder plays bass on the song with a fantastic line that moves across registers, sometimes paralleling the melody. The drums were played by Mick Woodmansey, and relies on the cymbals and hi-hat for its color, rather than a deep, heavy drumming sound.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vocals on \u201cZiggy Stardust\u201d showcase Bowie\u2019s abilities to explore different sounds, colors and textures. The verses use pretty heavy reverb. The song does not have a clear chorus, because it lacks lyrical repetition.\u00a0 It\u2019s really the texture of the section (as the vocals switched to an obviously double-tracked sound) which serves the energy building function of a chorus in the song.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSuffragette City\u201d brings together the glam rock, the hard rock and the proto-punk in a high-energy track.\u00a0 It\u2019s certainly guitar driven, but the pounding, Little Richard style piano also gives it some of that early rock \u2018n roll vibe. One of the most memorable moments in the song is the false ending, where Bowie exclaims \u201cWham Bam, thank you man\u201d before the band launches back into the song\u2019s groove. This line directly references a Charles Mingus track, while other lyrics reference Stanley Kubricks <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Clockwork Orange, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or the Velvet Underground\u2019s \u201cWhite Light\/White Heat.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The final song on the album, \u201cRock \u2018n Roll Suicide\u201d details Ziggy\u2019s ultimate demise.\u00a0 In the narrative, the \u201cinfinites\u201d described in the song Starman have finally come to earth. Bowie explained: \u201cWhen the infinites arrive, they take bits of Ziggy to make themselves real because in their original state they are anti-matter and cannot exist on our world. And they tear him to pieces onstage during the song \u201cRock and Roll Suicide.\u201d As soon as Ziggy dies onstage the infinites take his elements and make themselves visible.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a science fiction ending appropriate for its age. An age fascinated by space travel while also expressing fear of an apocalyptic future.\u00a0 Bowie captured all of these fears, excitements and fascinations, and managed to weave them into a groundbreaking musical album. As Bowie told journalists in 1973: \u201cI\u2019m really just a phosphate machine\u2026I pour out what has already been fed in. I merely reflect what is going on around me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was recorded at Trident Studios in London. The sessions began on the 8th of November, 1971,soon after Bowie finished his previous album, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Honky Dory. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The album featured the talents of Mick Ronson on electric guitar, piano and backing vocals. Ronson is also credited with arranging the string parts. Trevor Bolder played bass and Mick Woodmansey played drums. Although Rick Wakeman had left the group prior to the album&#8217;s production, some sources credit him with harpsichord on \u201cIt Ain\u2019t Easy\u201d\u00a0 The album was produced by Bowie and Ken Scott.\u00a0 Scott is also credited with engineering and mixing the album. It was released by RCA on June 16, 1972<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite its incredible success as a concept album, there is quite a bit of indication that its creation as such was not premeditated. In January 1972, Bowie explained \u201cIt wasn\u2019t really started as a concept album. It got kind of broken up because I found other songs that I wanted to put in the album that wouldn\u2019t fit in with the story of Ziggy\u2026what you have on that album when it finally comes out is a story which doesn\u2019t really take place. It\u2019s just a few little scenes from the life of a band called Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars, who could feasibly be the last band on earth, because we\u2019re living the last five years of earth.\u201d Likewise producer Ken Scott said \u201c[Ziggy Stardust] was never discussed as a concept album from the start\u2026We were recording a bunch of songs \u2013 some of them happened to fit together, some didn\u2019t work.\u201d However, as Ziggy became a stage show in addition to the album the pieces were filled in and fans have largely constructed a whole world around Ziggy Stardust, even reconciling those songs which Bowie and Scott did not imagine fitting into the Ziggy narrative. 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