It’s difficult to understand the importance of Ziggy at the time when I was only three years of age back in 1973. But it still sounds like the future, more than fifty years later.
The album starts in such an understated way with Five Years. It’s a softener for what is to come. By the time Starman kicks in, then we’re rocking.
Despite the WHAM BAM force of nature, it’s also a sorrowful record. Lady Stardust in particular always lowers the mood for me.
Four songs that have the word star in the title - he was trying to tell us something. My brain hurts a lot.
Oh how we miss him.
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