The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, which was released in June 1972, finally broke Bowie, who had been kicking around for almost a decade and with four solo albums to his name, to the mainstream. The album, and the tour supporting it, featured Bowie assuming ...
He calls the music from Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars“a British view of American street energy.” In retrospect, it’s easy to see the act as just that, but in the moment, Bowie’s fans believed in Ziggy as s...