Unlimited Streaming
Listen to this album in high quality now on our apps
Start my trial period and start listening to this albumEnjoy this album on Qobuz apps with your subscription
SubscribeEnjoy this album on Qobuz apps with your subscription
Digital Download
Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs.
Borrowing heavily from Marc Bolan's glam rock and the future shock of A Clockwork Orange, David Bowie reached back to the heavy rock of The Man Who Sold the World for The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Constructed as a loose concept album about an androgynous alien rock star named Ziggy Stardust, the story falls apart quickly, yet Bowie's fractured, paranoid lyrics are evocative of a decadent, decaying future, and the music echoes an apocalyptic, nuclear dread. Fleshing out the off-kilter metallic mix with fatter guitars, genuine pop songs, string sections, keyboards, and a cinematic flourish, Ziggy Stardust is a glitzy array of riffs, hooks, melodrama, and style and the logical culmination of glam. Mick Ronson plays with a maverick flair that invigorates rockers like "Suffragette City," "Moonage Daydream," and "Hang Onto Yourself," while "Lady Stardust," "Five Years," and "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" have a grand sense of staged drama previously unheard of in rock & roll. And that self-conscious sense of theater is part of the reason why Ziggy Stardust sounds so foreign. Bowie succeeds not in spite of his pretensions but because of them, and Ziggy Stardust -- familiar in structure, but alien in performance -- is the first time his vision and execution met in such a grand, sweeping fashion.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
You are currently listening to samples.
Listen to over 100 million songs with an unlimited streaming plan.
Listen to this playlist and more than 100 million songs with our unlimited streaming plans.
From 12.49€/month
Mick Ronson, Guitar, Piano, Vocals, Synthesizer, Mellotron - Ray Staff, Remastering Engineer - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Programmer, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Ken Scott, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Trevor Bolder, Bass - Woody Woodmansey, Drums, Percussion
© 2015 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC Under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, ℗ 1972, 2012 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC
Mick Ronson, Guitar, Piano, Vocals, Synthesizer, Mellotron - Ray Staff, Remastering Engineer - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Programmer, Saxophone, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Ken Scott, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Trevor Bolder, Bass - Woody Woodmansey, Drums, Percussion
© 2015 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC Under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, ℗ 1972, 2012 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC
Mick Ronson, Guitar, Piano, Vocals, Synthesizer, Mellotron - Ray Staff, Remastering Engineer - David Bowie, Composer, Producer, Guitar, Programmer, Saxophone, Vocals, MainArtist - Ken Scott, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Trevor Bolder, Bass - Woody Woodmansey, Drums, Percussion
© 2015 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC Under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, ℗ 1972, 2012 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC
Mick Ronson, Guitar, Piano, Vocals, Synthesizer, Mellotron - Ray Staff, Remastering Engineer - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Programmer, Saxophone, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Ken Scott, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Trevor Bolder, Bass - Woody Woodmansey, Drums, Percussion
© 2015 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC Under exclusive license to Parlophone Records Limited, ℗ 1972, 2012 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC
Mick Ronson, Guitar, Piano, Vocals, Synthesizer, Mellotron - Rick Wakeman, Harpsichord - Ray Staff, Remastering Engineer - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Programmer, Saxophone, Vocals, MainArtist - RON DAVIES, Writer - Ken Scott, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Dana Gillespie, Backing Vocals - Trevor Bolder, Bass - Woody Woodmansey, Drums, Percussion
© 2015 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC ℗ 2012 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Mick Ronson, Guitar, Piano, Vocals, Synthesizer, Mellotron - Ray Staff, Remastering Engineer - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Programmer, Saxophone, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Ken Scott, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Trevor Bolder, Guitar - Woody Woodmansey, Drums, Percussion
© 2015 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC Under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, ℗ 1972, 2012 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC
Mick Ronson, Guitar, Piano, Vocals, Synthesizer, Mellotron - Ray Staff, Remastering Engineer - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Programmer, Saxophone, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Ken Scott, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Trevor Bolder, Bass - Woody Woodmansey, Drums, Percussion
© 2015 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC Under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, ℗ 1972, 2012 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC
Mick Ronson, Guitar, Piano, Vocals - Ray Staff, Remastering Engineer - David Bowie, Composer, Producer, Guitar, Programmer, Vocals, MainArtist - Ken Scott, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Trevor Bolder, Bass - Woody Woodmansey, Drums
© 2015 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC Under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, ℗ 1972, 2012 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC
Mick Ronson, Guitar, Piano, Vocals, Synthesizer, Mellotron - Ray Staff, Remastering Engineer - David Bowie, Composer, Producer, Guitar, Programmer, Saxophone, Vocals, MainArtist - Ken Scott, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Trevor Bolder, Bass - Woody Woodmansey, Drums, Percussion
© 2015 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC Under exclusive license to Parlophone Records Limited, ℗ 1972, 2012 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC
Mick Ronson, Guitar, Piano, Vocals, Synthesizer, Mellotron - Ray Staff, Remastering Engineer - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Programmer, Saxophone, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Ken Scott, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Trevor Bolder, Bass - Woody Woodmansey, Drums, Percussion
© 2015 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC Under exclusive license to Parlophone Records Limited, ℗ 1972, 2012 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC
Mick Ronson, Guitar, Piano, Vocals, Synthesizer, Mellotron - Ray Staff, Remastering Engineer - David Bowie, Producer, Guitar, Programmer, Saxophone, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Ken Scott, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Trevor Bolder, Bass - Woody Woodmansey, Drums, Percussion
© 2015 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC ℗ 2012 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Album review
Borrowing heavily from Marc Bolan's glam rock and the future shock of A Clockwork Orange, David Bowie reached back to the heavy rock of The Man Who Sold the World for The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Constructed as a loose concept album about an androgynous alien rock star named Ziggy Stardust, the story falls apart quickly, yet Bowie's fractured, paranoid lyrics are evocative of a decadent, decaying future, and the music echoes an apocalyptic, nuclear dread. Fleshing out the off-kilter metallic mix with fatter guitars, genuine pop songs, string sections, keyboards, and a cinematic flourish, Ziggy Stardust is a glitzy array of riffs, hooks, melodrama, and style and the logical culmination of glam. Mick Ronson plays with a maverick flair that invigorates rockers like "Suffragette City," "Moonage Daydream," and "Hang Onto Yourself," while "Lady Stardust," "Five Years," and "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" have a grand sense of staged drama previously unheard of in rock & roll. And that self-conscious sense of theater is part of the reason why Ziggy Stardust sounds so foreign. Bowie succeeds not in spite of his pretensions but because of them, and Ziggy Stardust -- familiar in structure, but alien in performance -- is the first time his vision and execution met in such a grand, sweeping fashion.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 00:38:34
- Main artists: David Bowie
- Composer: David Bowie
- Label: Parlophone UK
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 2015 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC Under exclusive license to Parlophone Records Limited, ℗ 2012 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC
Distinctions:
Improve album information
Why buy on Qobuz...
-
Stream or download your music
Buy an album or an individual track. Or listen to our entire catalogue with our high-quality unlimited streaming subscriptions.
-
Zero DRM
The downloaded files belong to you, without any usage limit. You can download them as many times as you like.
-
Choose the format best suited for you
Download your purchases in a wide variety of formats (FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF...) depending on your needs.
-
Listen to your purchases on our apps
Download the Qobuz apps for smartphones, tablets and computers, and listen to your purchases wherever you go.
Playlists