David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (w/ guest Savannah Pope)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2016

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Savannah Pope, singer for LA based glam rock outfit SpaceCream (spacecreamband.com), joins Bill and Brian via the magic of Skype to discuss David Bowie's seminal glam album the Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972, RCA). What more needs to be said about Bowie that hasn't been done in the months since his death in January? He was an iconic artist that defined glam rock for many. On this episode, Savannah shares how she discovered Bowie as a teenager at reform school and helps us define exactly what glam rock is. Bill, Brian, and Savannah discuss the many phases of Bowie's career, what androgyny means creatively, the rock opera behind the music, Bowie's relationship with sanity, strange connections to "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and John Williams, the meaning of the word "creature," mellotron, and as always a track by track review!

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0:00.0	Oh!
0:02.0	Oh!
0:03.0	Oh!
0:04.0	Yeah!
0:05.0	Yeah! Hello, Zicki played guitar,
0:28.7	jamming good with We're than gilly, and the spider's drummarts.
0:36.4	We've played it left.
0:36.9	Hello, and welcome to the Great Album albums podcast. I'm Bill.
0:40.5	And I'm Brian.
0:41.6	And what were we just listening to right there, Brian?
0:44.0	Oh, we are listening.
0:46.4	Well, that was Ziggy Stardust from the album of more or less the same name,
0:52.2	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
0:54.3	and the Spiders from Mars by Mr. David Bowie.
0:58.4	Part of his early career
1:00.7	and probably his biggest early hit.
1:04.2	Yeah, I would say, I mean...
1:05.3	That kind of put him on the map.
1:06.5	Yeah, this kind...
1:07.1	I would say this remains his most beloved album.
1:11.0	Came out in June of 72.
1:12.8	Yep, yep.
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