I don't believe this has anything to do with Iggy Pop really 'cause Bowie didn't really go to the US and hang with Iggy until after this album was out. Aladdin Sane on the other hand makes several referrences to Adventures with and about Iggy Pop. "... Inspiration for Ziggy was Vince Taylor, the 'French Presly'. Taylor, whom Bowie briefly befriended, was the archetypal example of rock star turned nutty, and the blueprints for Bowie's own 'leper messiah'. 'He was an expartriate American who went to France and became a kind of Elvis. He was huge', recalled Bowie in 2000. 'And one night he decided - he'd done a lot of drugs! - to sack his band. He went on stage in a white robes and said, "I am Jesus Christ and I bring you the Loard's message!"' In so doing, Taylor effectly commited rock'n'roll suicide, and the incident lodged in Bowie's imagination powering his own writing of the archetypal dommed rock star whose superstardom grew too big for a mere mortal to handle." - David Buckley, From the Ziggy Stardust 30th Anniversary 2 cd edition album.
Maybe Ziggy Stardust is sung from the point of view of a double personality. Like Ziggy Stardust and Lady Stardust. "then we were Ziggy's band" it expains the we by saying he and himself were in Ziggy's band. "So where were the spiders while the fly tried to break our balls" This could be saying where's the rest of the band 'cause Ziggy/Lady is gettin' his balls broken.. heh.. funny line to write.. "Just the beer light to guide us," He is stating that his alternative ego and his just turn to alcohol and drugs. "So we bitched about his fans and should we crush his sweet hands? " And His ego and him just bitch about his fans. "Ziggy played for time, jiving us that we were voodoo" I wouldn't know how to really explain this line going along with this theory other than he starts going insane and question his own self awareness. "Making love with his ego" This line along helps my theory so much though. "When the kids had killed the man I had to break up the band." When they fans drove Ziggy insane, Lady stardust which is still himself broke up the band.. And rock'N'roll suicide finishes the tale of his death... Oh man. I'm thinking too abstract for my own little mind...
I don't believe this has anything to do with Iggy Pop really 'cause Bowie didn't really go to the US and hang with Iggy until after this album was out. Aladdin Sane on the other hand makes several referrences to Adventures with and about Iggy Pop. "... Inspiration for Ziggy was Vince Taylor, the 'French Presly'. Taylor, whom Bowie briefly befriended, was the archetypal example of rock star turned nutty, and the blueprints for Bowie's own 'leper messiah'. 'He was an expartriate American who went to France and became a kind of Elvis. He was huge', recalled Bowie in 2000. 'And one night he decided - he'd done a lot of drugs! - to sack his band. He went on stage in a white robes and said, "I am Jesus Christ and I bring you the Loard's message!"' In so doing, Taylor effectly commited rock'n'roll suicide, and the incident lodged in Bowie's imagination powering his own writing of the archetypal dommed rock star whose superstardom grew too big for a mere mortal to handle." - David Buckley, From the Ziggy Stardust 30th Anniversary 2 cd edition album.
Maybe Ziggy Stardust is sung from the point of view of a double personality. Like Ziggy Stardust and Lady Stardust. "then we were Ziggy's band" it expains the we by saying he and himself were in Ziggy's band. "So where were the spiders while the fly tried to break our balls" This could be saying where's the rest of the band 'cause Ziggy/Lady is gettin' his balls broken.. heh.. funny line to write.. "Just the beer light to guide us," He is stating that his alternative ego and his just turn to alcohol and drugs. "So we bitched about his fans and should we crush his sweet hands? " And His ego and him just bitch about his fans. "Ziggy played for time, jiving us that we were voodoo" I wouldn't know how to really explain this line going along with this theory other than he starts going insane and question his own self awareness. "Making love with his ego" This line along helps my theory so much though. "When the kids had killed the man I had to break up the band." When they fans drove Ziggy insane, Lady stardust which is still himself broke up the band.. And rock'N'roll suicide finishes the tale of his death... Oh man. I'm thinking too abstract for my own little mind...
I'm pretty sure Bowie came to New York before Ziggy Stardust was released. But maybe not before it was written, not really sure about that.
I'm pretty sure Bowie came to New York before Ziggy Stardust was released. But maybe not before it was written, not really sure about that.