https://www.bowiebible.com David Bowie songs, albums, history, features, photos and more… Fri, 01 Sep 2023 08:37:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.bowiebible.com/albums/the-rise-and-fall-of-ziggy-stardust-and-the-spiders-from-mars/comment-page-1/#comment-17062 Fri, 01 Sep 2023 08:37:04 +0000 http://www.davidbowiedatabase.com/?page_id=95#comment-17062 The song Ziggy Stardust also invites his audience to become co-conspirators in the deceit he’s playing a character.
When you read the lyrics it’s written by someone who seems like an outsider telling the story. The person tells you about Ziggy, the spiders and some related characters almost as a fan talking about a past legend and his fame. Then the last line
“when the kids had killed the man
I had to break up the band”
suggests the person telling the story is not a fan but someone with the power to destroy the messiah. Bowie himself tells you he’s going to kill the character when the kids take it too far.
It is amazing to admit the myth in plain sight and not many noticed it at the time.

]]> https://www.bowiebible.com/albums/the-rise-and-fall-of-ziggy-stardust-and-the-spiders-from-mars/comment-page-1/#comment-898 Sat, 18 Apr 2020 00:58:53 +0000 http://www.davidbowiedatabase.com/?page_id=95#comment-898 I love this website. What great and well-researched info.

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