David Bowie gave all new meaning to the parental adage, “I brought you into this world, and I can take you out of it,” when ...

“DAVID BOWIE IS ZIGGY STARDUST” the press release from RCA Records blasted out to the world on June 16, 1972. With the eventual breakout single “Starman” already percolating on the U.K ...

David Bowie's “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars,” a defining moment of the glam-rock era, gets the treatment it deserves.

Fifty years ago today, on the stage of London’s Hammersmith Odeon, David Bowie killed Ziggy Stardust. Of course, it was not a conventional murder: Ziggy was Bowie’s creation, a character he ...

David Bowie and The Monkees were very different artists. Despite this, Bowie compared one of his most famous personas, Ziggy Stardust, to The Monkees. He felt the Prefab Four were lacking compared ...

Read an excerpt from Rob Sheffield's new book, 'On Bowie,' in which he discusses the late icon's pivotal Santa Monica show in October of '72.

It’s probably safe to assume that anyone who clicked on this article already knows the context of David Bowie’s culture-shifting 1972 album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the ...

When David Bowie released his fifth album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, on June 16, 1972, he not only transformed the trajectory of his career; with the Ziggy ...

It’s probably safe to assume that anyone who clicked on this article already knows the context of David Bowie’s culture-shifting 1972 album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the ...

“I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever,” David Bowie said about his Ziggy Stardust period in a 1988 interview. “Now I realize that from ’72 through to about ...

David Bowie wasn’t DAVID BOWIE, internationally-known rock god, until his fifth album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.I mean, technically before he was David Bowie ...

Watch David Bowie Transform Into Ziggy Stardust in First ‘Stardust’ Trailer ... David Bowie found his voice — and international stardom — by creating iconic alter ego Ziggy Stardust.