All it takes is that concluding "Ziggy played.guitar!" and the final notes to put the seal on a total classic. Bowie himself subverts and transcends the whole thing brilliantly, bitchily high-pitched singing and a searing series of lyrics touching on everything from sex and death to grubby egomania just so. The band's performance itself, though, is nothing less than crisp and explosive, Mick Ronson's distorted guitar work and interpretation of the weird, jerky riffs that make up the song as much a signal for where rock could go as any of Hendrix's big hits. Open 75 days before the late singer’s 75th birthday, the pop-up is located close to where Bowie posed as Ziggy Stardust on the cover of his 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spider from Mars. Rather than being one of the album's quick, stone-cold rockers, it's measured, takes its time, is as acoustic as it is electric. Exterior of the new David Bowie pop-up shop in Heddon Street in the West End. What's interesting, though, in comparison to later efforts from others - notably Bauhaus' nuclear-strength take on it ten years later - is how relatively restrained it is in ways. It was the first time many had seen Bowie and people were fascinated by his stage presence. Bowie strummed a blue guitar while he moved flirtatiously alongside his guitarist, Mick Ronson. Bowie appeared as the flame-haired Ziggy Stardust dressed in a multicolored jump suit.
The height of David Bowie's astonishing reinvention as a mythical rock & roll messiah, "Ziggy Stardust," taken from his still famous 1972 breakthrough album, has been cloned, redone, borrowed from, and revisited so many times now that trying to describe its impact becomes nearly impossible. In 1972, Bowie performed this song on the British TV show, Top of the Pops.
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