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 ...

's "Ziggy Stardust"? For the last year or so bands have been falling all over themselves praising Bowie's album from 1972. Members of So again...why "Ziggy Stardust"? I think emo and punk bands like ...

“1972 was no 1971.” That’s what a friend remarked to me recently when offering up for comparison the two years, now a half-century behind us, in terms of the landmark pop music they gave the world.

On Bowie is a celebration of the late, great rock legend’s life and career, by longtime Rolling Stone columnist Rob Sheffield. The book, out now, looks at all the ways David Bowie kept innovating over ...

In June 1972, David Bowie made his debut as Ziggy Stardust on British TV show Lift Off with Ayshea, but years later a technician accidentally wiped the only known footage of the performance instead of ...

Offering his message of the youth’s salvation by an alien referred to as ‘Starman’, David Bowie’s glam rock anthem incited a ...

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’d invented ...

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 Spiders From ...

Taken during David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust Tour 1972–1973, this photograph depicts the iconic musician as his alter ego Ziggy Stardust. Celebrity photographer Brian Duffy captures Bowie in an ethereal ...

David Bowie’s performance of ‘Starman’ was out of this world, recalls singer Toyah Willcox I was born in Birmingham in 1958. My life was quite conventional by today’s standards: I went to an all-girls ...