Angie describes how they first met, his music, how she influenced the Ziggy shows, and his drug use in America during the Diamond Dogs Tour.

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (sometimes called Bowie 1973) is a 1973 documentary and concert film by D. A. Pennebaker. It features David Bowie and his backing group The Spiders from Mars performing at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on 3 July 1973. At this show, Bowie made the sudden surprise announcement that the show would be "the last show that we'll ever do", later understood to mean that he was retiring his Ziggy Stardust persona.

The Spiders from Mars were rock singer David Bowie's backing band in the early 1970s, and initially consisted of Mick Ronson on guitars, Trevor Bolder on bass guitar, and Mick Woodmansey on drums. The group had its origins in Bowie's earlier backing outfit the Hype, which featured Ronson and Woodmansey, but Tony Visconti on bass. They were briefly signed as a band on its own, known as Ronno.

The first farewell tour 1973". see David Bowie - His Master's Voice.

Featuring the first-ever live performances of songs from the band's 2013 critically acclaimed 13 album, along with BLACK SABBATH classics. Gathered in Their Masses was recorded April 29 and May 1, 2013 in Melbourne, Australia when the band-OZZY OSBOURNE (vocals), TONY IOMMI (guitar) and GEEZER BUTLER (bass) and guest musician TOMMY CLUFETOS (drums) -kicked off their world tour in support of their 13 album, which entered the charts at in 13 countries.

The Spiders from Mars were rock singer David Bowie's backing band in the early 1970s, and consisted of Mick Ronson o. .Black, and Pete McDonald. Their self-titled album, released in 1976, was their only album before the group disbanded.

Bowie admits a direct influence on the loose concept album was Vince Taylor, an English singer who took the ‘rock star’ persona to the extreme, calling himself Mateus and declaring himself the son of God. Bowie based the clothes, hair, and makeup of Ziggy Stardust on the Malcolm McDowell character in A Clockwork Orange, and on William Burroughs’ book Wild Boys. Other influences included the Legendary Stardust Cowboy and Kansai Yamamoto, who designed the costumes Bowie wore during the tour. The Spiders From Mars’ included guitarist Mick Ronson, who plays with a maverick flair on Suffragette City, Moonage Daydream, and Hang Onto Yourself, Trevor Bolder on bass, Mick ‘Woody’ Woodmansey on drums. Talking of The Beatles, in a 1973 interview with Charles Shaar Murray, Bowie admitted to pinching the backing vocal line from Lovely Rita (from The Beatle’s Sgt.

The album title comes from the Brecht/Weill opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny), first performed in 1930 but banned by the Nazis three years later. The London production at Sadler’s Wells Opera in January 1963 was conducted by Colin Davis. The documentary was filmed at the same concert in 1973, where Bowie decided to retire the Ziggy Stardust persona. This album was also selected by the Library of Congress, for preservation in the National Recording Registry, in 2017. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Q&A.

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Five Years is an exhaustive 12-disc set covering a significant period in Bowie's development, from his proper debut through 1973's Pin Ups. Included among some classic albums are live sets, singles, and alternate mixes. Imagine that Five Years (allegedly the first of a series, though Bowie has always announced many more projects than he's released) was all the documentation there was of his musical career-that he'd entered the public sphere with his 1969 single "Space Oddity", retired from the stage after the Ziggy Stardust/Aladdin Sane tour, and vanished to a Tibetan mountaintop following. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars from 1972 was the record that made Bowie the star he'd been acting like for a while, although its reputation isn't quite the same as its reality.