Log in now to tell us what you think this song means. Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. Log in. Lyrics Artists add. Oh Oh yeah Ziggy played guitar Jamming good with Weird and Gilly And the Spiders from Mars He played it left hand But made it too far Became the special man Then we were Ziggy's band Now Ziggy really sang Screwed-up eyes and screwed down hairdo Like some cat from Japan He could lick 'em by smiling He could leave 'em to hang They came on so loaded, man Well-hung and snow-white tan So where were the Spiders While the fly tried to break our bones With just the beer light to guide us So we bitched about his fans And should we crush his sweet hands?
Oh Mm-hmm Ziggy played for time Jiving us that we were voodoo The kids were just crass He was the nazz With God-given ass He took it all too far But, boy, could he play guitar Making love with his ego Ziggy sucked up into his mind, ah Like a leper messiah When the kids had killed the man I had to break up the band Oh, yeah Ooh Ziggy played guitar Edit Lyrics. Ziggy Stardust song meanings. Add Your Thoughts 93 Comments. General Comment Hmm. All interesting. Maybe I'm wrong.
I always just thought that Ziggy Stardust was David Bowie's glam alter-ego. Basically, like he was everything about him times a million. His own fears, inadequacies, ego, lust.. BunnyHatteShoppe on June 26, Link. No Replies Log in to reply. There was an error. General Comment I have no idea where you got that from Pabstdrinkin. Anyway: Ziggy Stardust, like Major Tom, is a autobiographical character. David Bowie went totally out the window. Everybody was convincing me that I was a Messiah, especially on that first American tour late I got hopelessly lost in the fantasy.
Who was David Bowie? David Bowie born David Robert Jones is recognised as one of the most influential rock stars of the Seventies and beyond. The Ziggy Stardust era , the subject of this web site, was one of the busiest and most successful periods of his continuing career and one in which he moved from relative obscurity to true superstar status.
From June to late the year he spent a record total of weeks on the album charts , he was the biggest act in the UK, with four Top 5 albums with three Number 1's and eight UK Top 10 singles over five years: Space Oddity No. I had a certain idea of what I wanted my rock n roll star to be like. I've gone as far with that as I possibly can.
The star was created; he worked, and that's all I wanted him to do. Anything he did now would just be repetition, carrying it on to the death. But, remember, at that time I was young and I was full of life, and that seemed like a very positive artistic statement. I thought that was a beautiful piece of art, I really did. I thought that was a grand kitsch painting. The whole guy. Then that fucker would not leave me alone for years.
That was when it all started to sour. And it soured so quickly you wouldn't believe it. And it took me an awful time to level out. My whole personality was affected. Again I brought that upon myself. I can't say I'm sorry when I look back, because it provoked such an extraordinary set of circumstances in my life. I thought I might as well take Ziggy to interviews as well. Why leave him on stage? Looking back it was completely absurd. It became very dangerous.
I really did have doubts about my sanity. I can't deny that the experience affected me in a very exaggerated and marked manner. I think I put myself very dangerously near the line. Not in physical sense but definitively in mental sense.
I played mental games with myself to such an extend that I'm very relieved and happy to be back in Europe and feeling very well. But, then, you see I was always the lucky one. It was an extraordinary phenomena in rock at the time. Who were The Spiders From Mars? The Spiders From Mars promotional photo Bowie has said that the inspiration for the name came when he was writing the song "Ziggy Stardust". The band consisted of:. So then the confusion set in, about who was Ziggy and who was David Bowie and even I didn't quite understand how all that happened.
Suddenly I had a band called the Spiders and I was willing to go with it because it worked on stage. I liked the ambiguity of not being quite able to separate the personas, much like Nicholas Roeg's film, The Man Who Fell To Earth, its the ominous sort of enigma of split-personality and which side is which?
The album is the story of an alien rock superstar called Ziggy Stardust who reaches fame just as the Earth enters the last five years of its existence. He ends up the victim of his own success and becomes a "rock n roll suicide. The album created a mythology that reached beyond the Chuck Berry folklorisms of the everyday rocker to create a new type of rock star.
Bowie glamorized and subverted the notion of a rock star, becoming a different version of himself armed with a new look and new sound. It was a rock star as a changeling, adapting to and interpreting the evolving world, filtering then transforming his look and music into something new. Was he the Thin White Duke? Hunky Dory?
The side project Tin Machine? His last glorious piece of music [ Blackstar ]? But the imagery that Bowie created with every record, nobody else can touch that. They were weird. It was literally overnight success. On that day, Ziggy rose. And on July 3, Ziggy would fall. Rewind to June and this influence over pop music seemed unlikely. We got to a crossroads with Leeds one way and Hull the other.
We went back to Hull and started a band called Ronno. The sessions were quick, but Bowie decided not to tour the album because he had ideas for the next one. I can do piano, I can do guitar, I can do rock, I can do whatever. He left it at that. His ideas for the different aspects of the album came from different places. And the songs? He thought it was boring. Only Bowie knows if he planned it, but he certainly planted the see to help the idea grow.
And people went with it. One take. If it went to four it was a bad session. If you messed up it was a big deal. The only booze was a couple of beers.
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