Okay to your knowledge, is this correct?:
- *Ziggy Stardust* is from outer space,
- However the Spiders from Mars are from earth, they are just a group of humans calling themselves the Spiders from Mars (for rock & roll reasons)
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JERRY: What’s the deal with the Spiders from Mars? They aren’t from Mars! They aren’t even spiders!
The 1987 “Glass Spider” tour for the album ‘Never Let Me Down’ did have a glass spider, it even had Peter Frampton, but the album did, in fact, let everybody down
@mcc no, Sgt. Pepper is from Earth; it is the Lonely Hearts Club Band that are the Martians
@mcc wow I can't believe you are spoiling David Bowie
@cyberquixote I DIDN'T spoil david bowie I used a CONTENT NOTICE
@mcc @cyberquixote Bowie spoiled the ending by naming the last song “Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide”
Follow up question: Is Ziggy Stardust the starman? Or is Ziggy Stardust *looking* for the starman?
Can Ziggy Stardust go home? Is he stuck here?
@mcc Ziggy is not the starman. Ziggy is the prophet who foretells the coming of the starman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggy_Stardust_(character)
@_the_cloud Okay that makes sense. But is he from Earth or from space. Is Wikipedia reliable on this subject
@mcc In Bowie's own words: "Ziggy is advised in a dream by the infinites to write the coming of a starman, so he writes "Starman", 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."
@mcc @_the_cloud according to the man himself, Ziggy is an alien who becomes acculturated, to his ruin
It’s a theme he revisited in the movie ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’ and finally the musical ‘Lazarus’
But was Ziggy the life on Mars from the song “Life on Mars”?
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Wow, I find I sure do have Opinions on this:
1 - IMO only some songs on the album are part of the Ziggy Stardust continuity. 'Suffragette City' and 'It Ain't Easy' seem clearly *not* part of the same thing.
2. 'Lady Stardust' and 'Ziggy Starrdust' clearly are. 'Hang Onto Yourself' is a song *by* Ziggy & the Spiders from Mars, 'Star' is Ziggy or another member's life story, 'Rock & Roll Suicide' describes the end of Ziggy's life *as* a rock star.
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