The album version of the song was recorded in November 1971. With an original title, when first demoed, of He Was Alright (Song For Marc), Lady Stardust’s gender-blurring lyric alludes to a brief flirtatious affair between Bowie and, his soon-to-be-rival, Marc Bolan: ‘A love I could not obey’.Rewritten to highlight Ziggy’s pan-sexuality, it opened side two.
The demo also appeared on the Ziggy Stardust - 30th Anniversary Reissue bonus disc in 2002. So Ziggy Stardust was a real compilation of things."The original demo version of the song, recorded in February 1971, was released as a bonus track on the Rykodisc CD release of Ziggy Stardust in 1990. 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 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. 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'". Other influences included the Legendary Stardust Cowboy and Kansai Yamamoto, who designed the costumes Bowie wore during the tour. The character was inspired by British rock 'n' roll singer Vince Taylor, whom David Bowie met after Taylor 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. The song is one of four of Bowie's songs included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. 282 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The song describes Bowie's alter ego Ziggy Stardust, a rock star who acts as a messenger for extraterrestrial beings. We have no problem getting them up there and plying ‘Ventura Highway.’ America, if you’re around, join the gang."Ziggy Stardust" is a song written and recorded by David Bowie for his 1972 concept album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. My attitude is, ‘If you’re here, get up on the stage and play with us.’ Let’s just say America is there. “I want there to be a looseness, a party vibe. “I kind of imagine our live show being somewhere between Rush and the Faces,” Hawkins told Rolling Stone. They’re still putting the finishing touches on that record, which is slated for sometime in 2022, but they’re already plotting out a headlining tour. “And then a light bulb went off and we realized we had an actual band and were going to make a record.” “We just kept going, and before we knew it, we had a body of work,” Navarro recently told Rolling Stone. It began with Hawkins, Navarro, and Chaney jamming in the studio, but quickly grew into something more. NHC came together in early 2020 when the pandemic caused Jane’s Addiction and Foo Fighters off the road for an indefinite period of time. Meet the Beatle: A Guide to Ringo Starr's Solo Career in 20 Songs “That is for goddamn sure.” His presence caused Taylor to change the lyrics to, “He took it all too far/But boy can Shane play the fuckin’ drums.” “He’s a little fucking bad-ass,” Hawkins told the crowd as he was walking onto the stage. And for the finale of “Ziggy Stardust,” Taylor’s 14-year-old son Shane played drums. Hawkins, Navarro, and Chaney were joined by Foo Fighters guitarist Pat Smear and Foos backup singers Barbara Gruska, who doubled as the group’s drummer when Hawkins moved away from the kit to sing lead. The set began with nine songs from their in-progress album, including several they’ve already shared with fans like “Lazy Eyes,” and “Feed the Cruel.” The second half of the show moved to tunes from Hawkins’ solo career like “Louise” and “Range Roger Bitch.” It wrapped up with Queen’s “Keep Yourself Alive” and the David Bowie classics “Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide” and “Ziggy Stardust.” Taylor Hawkins, Dave Navarro, and Jane’s Addiction bassist Chis Chaney quietly unveiled their supergroup NHC with a short set at the Ohana Festival in September, but they made their official debut with a full-length show at L.A.’s Troubadour on Tuesday evening.
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