Ziggy Stardust, 50 Years Later I Vinyl Monday 

it also wouldn’t be a vinyl monday if i didn’t screw up a track name: that song on the man who sold the world is “the supermen”!

How could the album not end with "You're wonderful. Give me your hands?"

Don't forget Mick Rock, Bowie's photographer and consequently the main photographer of glam (did the covers of 'Transformer' and 'Raw Power', among others).

The Man Who Sold The World

Moonage Daydream ❤️

I’m grateful people in their twenties have even heard of all this great old stuff, let alone loves it. There’s hope for the future after all.

I bought this album on first release - great then, still great now.

I have alot of records also. My Bowie listening patterns are strange. I'll go months without listening to a single Bowie song, and when I finally whip a Bowie album out, all I listen to for a week is Bowie. Wake up with Bowie. At the gym with Bowie. In the car with Bowie. Paying special attention to Hunky Dory. That one really speaks to me. Life on Mars still gives me chills every time I hear it. Really appreciate your channel.

Reality is a criminally underrated album. Glad to see some others appreciate it.

AAA this is one of my fav album's of all time, I literally have David Bowie as my phone lockscreen as Ziggy, he is such a big inspiration to me both musically and style wise. this video will be SO worth watching through a British heatwave lol! It's honestly hard to pick a fave off of this album cause it has no skips honestly, I love moonage daydream ofc, suffragette city, starman and it ain't easy. also love the look!

Five years has been one of my favorite Bowie songs since high school!!

Tears in my eyes, lump in my throat and chills all over my body through this whole review. This album mean a lot to me as it was on the turntable and blasting constantly in my first adventure at living on my own. Lots of friends coming around and having fun doing what young people did in the early seventies. It's one of the five albums I would have to own if I could only own five. In my ears, I love ever song, with moonage daydream being my favorite. Abby, keep your lectric on me babe put your raygun to my head press your spaceface close to mine love freakout in a moonage daydream oh yeah The Mark Ronson guitar movement in this song is a sonic masterpiece.

I think Ziggy really is his best album. Favorite songs are Ziggy Stardust, Suffragette City, and Hang On to Yourself.

"People stared at the makeup on his face. Laughed at his long black hair, his animal grace" Such a poignant lyric and beautiful ballad all of us freaks, goths and glam rockers can relate to.

Ziggy Stardust is my favorite album. There are likely better Bowie albums, but this will always be my favorite (Hunky Dory and Station to Station are right behind it for me). Every time I get new audio equipment, Ziggy is the first record I put on. I have to hear that "Five Years" opening first. I love it. I never tire of it, and I don't know about the Kanye theory but I fully subscribe to the proclamation of David Bowie prophethood.

Wham! Bam thank you ma’am Another great album and another good video thank you for sharing

"The rise and fall of the Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars", is my favorite David Bowie album, great review as always

😮 had this album for about 30 years and never noticed the naughty part in Lady Stardust. Oh my! 😮😅😅

Until this video I had no idea that I was a "Chaos Gemini" (June 20) but that totally fits. Thanks!

When I was at high school in the mid to late '70s there was a big swap culture in cassettes and through that I and most of my friends built up as full a Bowie collection as we collectively had. When I got to Ziggy I played it all through my August holidays that year to the point where it had become so saturated that I couldn't listen to it for a decade. Still, even though it felt like an old record then (by about six years) it was new to most of us and sounded a lot fresher than anything on the radio. In the real timeline that gang of us took in all of this just in time to get Low as a new record. Well, that was a shift. Please just keep doing these, they are brilliant.

I've never been a big David Bowie fan. I definitely think he has put out some great music through the years but... I do love the 1972/1973 tour on the Ziggy Stardust ride. I've got about 10 or 15 shows/recordings I've been able to find from this tour as well as the officially released DVD which I can't think of the name of right now. This was a rocking tour and it really sounded great live on stage. It's kind of funny that I have never owned this album or CD yet. I know every song on it and it's not because of those live shows I'm talking about. They all have been played and used in various ways through the years. That tells you that David Bowie did something right with this one for sure! And it really was a turning point in a lot of music that followed. This was a great album to pick Abby and it's already got me looking on the internet for an LP copy. I was looking last year, and I did find one, but I didn't get it in the long run and chose something else. But it's time I owned a copy. BTW, I didn't know this but just realized it when looking online, yesterday was the 50th anniversary of this album's release. Oops, scratch that and say a month ago and one day. You know, June 17th 1972 and July 17th 1972, they kind of look the same with the exception of just two letters :-) I thought I had found a good, new 50th anniversary pressing of the LP for $25 and it was half speed mastered also in my initial search a little while ago. But dead gummit, it's on a picture disc. And I know we've all had to try one of those and learn the hard way that you don't get those unless you plan to hang them on your wall. That might explain why it was $25 and not $50 too. I'm definitely not going to spend $50 right now even though I do like the album. After looking and listening around a little more online, I've decided I'm going to try to find an older repressing for two reasons. One, the price! And two, I was just listening and reacquainting myself with the 2012 reissue and it doesn't sound as good as the older versions of the song commonly heard on radio and elsewhere. I was streaming it with Amazon HD but something sounds off. I'm not sure at the moment if they remastered or remixed the 2012 reissue or what? But some things are better left alone at times and I'm going to do a little research on my own and see what I can learn about the generations and reissues of this LP. This is definitely one that I would like to get though and I'm surprised I haven't. So I'm glad you did the video on it and I think it was a great choice. Hopefully, at some point not too far off, I can get by my local record store and find a good, used copy for $10 or so. And if not, then I'll just keep looking online and I know all come across what I'm looking for and be able to eventually get it 👍 I really like Mick Ronson's guitar playing also. I don't really know much about him, or whatever happened to him, or even what he did after the Ziggy Stardust years. But his guitar playing in that era was one of the things I liked the most about that 1972 release and those live recordings also. And if you've never seen the official DVD/concert release from the Ziggy Stardust time frame, you really have to check that out. I just can't think of the name of it right now but I'm sure somebody knows what I'm talking about. I've even seen it on satellite/cable TV through the last five years. Another great video Abby and you piqued my interest in digging around and finding a good copy of the album. And I enjoy the research and delving into the albums like you do. Thank you...🎶👍🎶

Love this album so much. Highly ranked on my all-time lp list.

It’s great you delve into music what was made so many years before you was born love your channel awesome 😎

The “who knows, not you.” Comment gave me a laugh. 😆 Always smart and witty, Abby! 🌸🌼🌻🌷🕉

So cool about the recoloring on the cover! Never knew that.

Ground control to ma---oh wait wrong album... Great review as always!

This is my favorite album of all time! So glad to hear everything you have to say about it, I always get super excited when I see anything David Bowie, definitely here for the rest of the vinyl mondays!

Looking incredible as always and a great video as always 😘😘

A little late again in watching your video, glad I caught up. Terrific job again, in reviewing an album that I believe has stood the test of time. To me now it sounds as it always did, unique , with a great style and a production that really suits the music. You summed it up really well and gave us a great flavour of what the whole album is all about, thank you.

It’s mind blowing to find out how many absolute classic albums Bowie would release in the 70’s early 80’s and the great albums that would come out in later decades. I really enjoy your video style, it’s unique, and your fashion choices really gel it all together! 👍

LUV Ziggy! It is still my favorite Bowie even after all the cerebral stuff is given a chance, I always come back to it and it never fails me! I even recorded my own version of 'Lady Stardust' as a solo piano tune back in the 90s. Thanks for making this video Abigail! BTW, LUV the boa-around-the-head look! Adorable!

Those shoes are amazing! And lovely intro comments.

I love it.

Jammed along with this record on guitar a lot when it came out. A real milestone in rock at the time. A true one of a kind. Just like you Abby! ❤️

Mad about this album ,when it came out,I was 19.love your reviews,another MICK.

I've been staring at this distant past Vinyl Monday horizon for a while, realizing what a biggie Ziggy was. I mean this then Tommy. You really went for it. The spareness of the beginning is confident in an inverse way? because there's complexity to follow. Stone love sleazy in an alluring way, bit Roxy, Ronson's break full of personality. 'keep your lectric eye on me babe...your space face...' great lyrics to sing out loud. Race along rockers, Hang On Suffragette. Perhaps my fav moment the iconic opening guitar to Ziggy Stardust. The Ziggy succubus theory doesn't convince me really. He moved with such alacrity between manifestations of his personality did anything really go that deep? But he did dazzle. His music endlessly inventive. I do feel that the narrative that Abigail Devoe was sent to save us has traction. I mean I feel rescued :-) It might be illusory and real at the same time! Absurd!

What a great album! I have heard alot of songs off this record, but the one that grabbed me recently is Moonage Daydream. The lyrics are pure genius!!

✨✨Once again another great album you have reviewed! I listened to this only last week😄In 1984 when I was 22 almost 23 I had got the cassette of this and listened to it so much and still llove this album. Being a drummer I liked 5 Years right off ‘cos of the weird drum beat🥁✨When I listened last week the “Brain hurts a lot “ part super got me more than ever💫💫💫✨✨💫 Thanks again .🎸🥁🎸🎸🥁💫💫✨

Damn haven't heard this one in a while. Thanks for the video :]

There's also Mick Ralphs from Mott the Hoople, Mick Jones from Clash (who was a big Mott the Hoople fan), and even Mick Fleetwood. My god! You're right! It might be easier to find British rock stars who aren't named Mick...

Landmark album and quintessential glam rock from the King himself, great review Abby.

I love Vinyl Monday. It's my favourite thing

This was my intro to Bowie. And the beginning of college, lol. Yeah, some of us are OLD as dirt, lol! Bowie got me through my college years and even through much of the graduate school period in NYC. I became a lifelong fan and watched the transformations of the Bowie Persona through the '70s and '80s. What can I say, a great album! A classic! I also got to see Bowie star as The Elephant Man on Broadway during that time.

Another wonderful episode, Abigail. I've heard about half of the record. "Suffragette City" rules! "Kayne hasn't died onstage and evaporated in stardust, so there's that." Funny line! Shawn R., Mo-Mutt Music/Sacred & Secular (and Bowie fan)

A masterpiece.

Got a Ziggy album way back in . . . 1972??? I think so. Good album.

I've been a fan of this album for decades and read loads of Bowie books but until you pointed it out I'd never deciphered that line in Lady Stardust. There's not a weak song on this album and it will always be in my top ten albums ever, although it's not my favourite Bowie album, that would be Low. Loved your video Abigail, you really looked the part!

Love REALITY! But, even though the b-side slips a bit, I think Scary Monsters is my favorite Bowie album.

Your website is amazing, I literaly cried for the Syd Barrett thing that you write. Thank you for sharing it to us!

Had the pleasure of meeting David at the bottom line in NYC, attending nj comedian uncle Floyd vivino in late 1979. He was gracious, posed for two photos and got a autograph. Btw John lennon was a fan of local kids adult show uncle Floyd. Hence eventually bowie remained a fan and released a song dedicated about Floyd vivino titled slip away.

Ziggy tends to get ignored as it was a big seller, but the 1st side must be up there with his strongest releases.

I love Bowie's music especially all his 70's and 90's albums. I still didn't get much into his 80's era except for Scary Monsters (great album) which is a bit more New Wave, Post Punk, Art Pop and Synth Pop because I love all those musical styles.

All Times Masterpiece!!!

Vos vidéos sont géniales !

1972: the year I graduated highschool.

I have this album myself. It was made one year before I was born & I heard it for the VERY first time yesterday. I'd just bought it, gave it a listen & yep...I'm an idiot! I don't know how this has slipped past me! Well...yeah, I kinda do. In my eyes their's no other band than AC/DC. Back in my younger days that's all I listened too. I still idolize them but have since expanded my music tastes considerably over the years. My copy (although a current pressing) came with a poster. Sort of a hype kinda poster. Great show btw. 👏🏼

One of my sisters used to listen to David Bowie. The David Bowie I remember was '80s David Bowie. I didn't know he started out in the late '60s. I like how David Bowie creates a character and gives the character a cool name like Ziggy Stardust. Alright, I'm heading into pop culture territory once again. I don't know if you heard of this show called Crossing Jordan. It's kind of a medical/crime drama. I can't describe what the show is. It came on in the early '2000s. I don't think you were born yet knowing that you're only 23 years old. You're probably already 24 around the time that I'm typing in my comment. I don't know when your Birthday is. Anywho, the show is a like a medical crime drama and the character's name is Jordan and she's Irish. Hence the original theme tune from the first season. I remember one episode that used Saffrigete City. It is at the beginning of the episode. And you see Jordan rocking out to that song and you see the strobe lights flickering. One of the Stand By Me kids is on that show. If you don't know what Stand By Me is, it's based on a short story called The Body. It's about these kids hiking out to the woods to find a dead body of an older kid. It's a really great movie. It's set in the late in '50s. And Starman was used in a car commercial? I'm not sure what it's on.

Pretty sure there about as many Micks as there are Michaels. Michael is a name like William; it gets abbreviated a multitude of different ways (most common for William are Will, Bill and Liam -- most common for Michael tend to be Mick and Mike) to the point that people often don't realize that one is an abbreviation for the other.

Glam it up Buttercup! Love your channel and Videos. Love how you dress for the record..super cool. 😉

Lady Stardust is one of my favourite songs on this album! I'm currently learning it on piano :)

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I was workin' at the original Tower Records in Sacramento, CA summer o' 1974. A co-worker asked me my opinion o' David Bowie 'n I made some snide negative comment based on my misguided prejudice. He said "Oh yeah?..You HAVE to listen to this song 'n it'll totally blow you away!" He played Suffragette City 'n I've been a captive Bowie fan ever since, as good as it gets. Bowie Rules O.K.!

Your cool Abigail You have deep understanding and such good ears Need to get sound production

The BBC take of "Suffragette" is my absolute favorite Bowie moment.

We spent a lot of time talking , analyzing (and playing) music back in those days. Would’ve loved to have known you then.

I visited the site of the album cover and back back in '88. Booth was long gone. Imagine what it would be worth today? HaHa Micks indeed.

For all the fuss about the whole "Ziggy Stardust" concept, there are only a couple of songs on the album that seem to have much to do with it (unlike on "Tommy", where pretty much every song contributes to the story). I don't have a clue what "Soul Love" or "Moonage Daydream" (as cool as they are) have to do with Ziggy's adventures on Earth, or with anything in particular ("I'm an alligator/I'm a momma papa coming for you" …huh?). If you ask me, Mick Ronson is the brightest star here. His guitar riffs and solos always come to mind first when I'm thinking about the highlights of the album - that solo on "Moonage Daydream" …need I say more? I think the Ramones got the riff for "I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement" from Mick's guitar part on "Hang On to Yourself". Still, I give David major props for writing "Five Years", which I find really poignant; and "Starman", which captures the joy of pop music and of the glam rock phenomenon in particular ("Let all the children boogie!"). Although this is certainly a quality album, and David's style during this period was immaculate (you can thank Angie Bowie for that), IMHO his real masterpieces were "Low" and "Heroes". I still need to see the Ziggy Stardust concert movie.

I love this album, probably one of his best, slightly better than Scary Monsters. Watching from London UK.

It blows my mind you were born in like what 1999?? Wow. You are an old soul.

i am a strict list maker - by which i mean i have a list of 17 favorite rock albums rather than 10 or 20 because i define "favorite" so specifically. the rise and fall is high up on that list, and david is my main man. ;) so thanks.

There’s a plaque now on the wall where that cover picture was taken to commemorate it. Heddon Street, a little street off Piccadilly in London. Mainly cafes there now. And yes, you are an intergalactic music reviewer. Whether you know it or not… 😊

Hi Abby, Love your channel!!!❤️ In the Summer of 1979, I had just just turned 20 years old and was about to move out of my parents home. I was playing in a rock band and later moved into what became our band house. I received Ziggy Stardust for my birthday and fell in love with it. I was a believer that the world was due to end in 1984 based on the Orwell book and the book called, the Late Great Planer Earth. The first song on Ziggy of course was Five Years which reinforced the theory that the world would end in 1984 because it was FIVE YEARS away in 1979!!! So…… after moving out the following September, I lived my life in the fast land with Sex, Drugs and lots of Rock And Roll. After about two years of that, I moved back home and went back to college. The rock star life will kill you!!!! As Ziggy was to find out himself. One of my favorite records.

Another great video. Off the rails in the best ways. YES Zen Guerilla is awesome and their version of Moonage Daydream kicks ass. Have you heard Carlton Melton? They are an instrumental space rock band with former Zen Guerilla members I highly recommend. I used to think It Ain't Easy was a Kinks song because the credits said R. Davies then I later learned it was Ron Davies. Three Dog Night did a great version on their album of the same name. Cheers!

This album was Bowie's best early in his career when he made it big in the USA

Ziggy is my favorite bowie album and one of my all time favorite albums, there is no bad song , rock and roll suicide is my favorite song , mick ronson is an under rated guitarist and passed way too young as did bowie even though he was a heavy smoker , may they both RIP

Yeah so, isn't this album too old for you? Baby? When I started collecting records, Space Oddity is one I got fairly early on. For years that was the extent of my Bowie collection. I then got, in the mid 80s, the Bauhaus cover of the title track and for years that was the extent of my Ziggy Stardust education. Then the chick I married was a big Bowie fan so now we own most of it. Ziggy isn't a favorite of mine. My favorite early album is The Man Who Sold The World. My favorite album over all is Earthling. I just love that album. I must play Reality again. He does a pretty damn good cover of George Harrison's Try Some, Buy Some. For conspiracy theories,,,, I'll be doing an episode on my program about the Paul is dead thingy. Maybe come winter. That is if I have an audience by then. Lets chat some more on my 'other' instagram. As breathing is my life, I dare not stop. You are cool Thou art the one The power of attorney For heaven sake Amen.

i never heard that story about ziggy being from space. where'd that come from? "ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars" is an excellent album. but "rock and roll suicide" i can do without. side one, unrelated to the "ziggy" story line, is as good as side one. i also have bowie's "pinups." one of the best cover albums ever! "hunky dory" and "diamond dogs." the latter had a few good songs on it but it was bowie's step towards disco. and disco sucks. you know, i never noticed, or i forgot, the "rise and fall" part of the album's title. i don't remember that part being on my album cover. but i guess it was. i can't look because i had to sell my album collection a few years ago.

As a younger person who used recreational drugs, I would make realizations while listening to Bowie's glam era records. Like one day while listening to Diamond Dogs it occurred to me that a man's best friend is a dog but a woman's best friend is a diamond. It was really mind blowing at the time, lol. Bowie may not have prophesized Kanye West's rise, but there's quite a bit of weird, esoteric stuff going on in those records which is intentional.

Interesting that one of his early vocal inspirations was Anthony Newly.

I saw Bowie in San Francisco on the Ziggy Stardust tour. Bowie was late arriving on stage, and was wearing jeans, and explained that he'd split his "Ziggy Stardust" pants, and had to go back to his hotel and get his jeans to wear. "You don't want to see me split my trousers, do you?" he asked, and the crowd responded rather ambiguously. The show was great, and the band was tight. Mike Garson was discreetly at the back of the stage, out of costume, playing great piano parts behind everything, too. The concert was rather sparsely attended. People had only just heard of David Bowie, mostly through the Rolling Stone article about him, and much of the audience was from San Francisco's gay community, partly because of Bowie's reputed bisexuality, and partly because Sylvester and his Hot Band were the opening act. Sylvester was a trans soul singer (later a big disco singing star) who fronted a really tight, funky horn band that was locally very popular with gay San Franciscans, especially. I remember, while leaving the show when it was over, hearing a couple of guys saying how disappointed they were with Bowie and his Spiders From Mars. They complained that the band was just doing warmed-over Yardbirds-type stuff, which to them was retro and obsolete. ("Gene Genie"- a very obviously Yardbirds-inspired song- was a big number the band jammed on in the set).

Ziggy had a "snow white tan."

If you think of Bowie as a jazz artist and beat poet, you can enjoy all his performances equally. He was essentially like Cream in that he made his mark in the pop world without being really in it.

I own almost every Bowie album My fav is 1.Outside , from 1995 2nd favs are Blackstar , from 2016 Diamond Dogs from 1974

Me too I'm a Gemini

Oh Abi, I want to see you with that Bowie lightning Bolt on your cheek ! (all four cheeks). DIAMOND DOGS ! is the ultimate Dark and brooding soundscape. Hard to believe 48 years ago. And yes I kept up with all THE CHANGES that Bowie put on vinyl. Tin Machine, Earthling, Heathen, Reality...kinda genius...always the chameleon...always relevant !!!

RIP David bowie

Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe Put your ray gun to my head Press your space face close to mine, love Freak out in a moonage daydream oh yeah! . Great channel, really enjoyed this . Oh, everything is better with Mick Ronson.

You taught me quite a bit about this album. Can you please review Fireball by Deep Purple if you don't mind me asking. I'll send you a musical gift if you can 🥰

Bowie and his music literally changed my life when I was fifteen years old, but that was forty five years ago..... I'm really nterested to know - can music still have the same or similar effect on the 15YO's of today, in what appears to me to be a culturally vacuous society? Can music still have the effect of making someone wake up the next day a different person or have a different view of the world??? Btw, Abigail, I love the fact that you totally seem to love the music of fifty years ago and more - how did this happen?

I would never describe Iggy as glam rock! He's punk.

One of the greatest RnR l.p.'s? Maybe. More crucially, an obvious prelude to Kanye. (And if that too is "political", damn the torpedos 😉) Thanks Abby! Looking fabulous, as usual.

I bought the album back in 1972 when I was 13 years old, living in Manchester UK. I have bought every Bowie album available, I am now 63 years old and still love Ziggy Stardust. You really should reviews Aladinsane and Diamond Dogs.

The BEST thing about Bowie was his ANDROGONEEEE

I like very much you're videos, Abby. Genius and wonderful! I like to question if you buy repress (180grm) or only original press?

I was today about a hour ago and I was looking for buying some albums on cd and I was choosing between many albums even ziggy stardust but I choose holy diver by dio and love over gold by dire straits but now that I saw this review I want ziggy stardust 😭😭😭

Playing bass and singing lead on "Five Years" just lost EVERYBODY in the audiences my band played for! Not a great choice for a large gaggle of reddish-necked loudmouthed college yokels in bars in southern Delaware. (ooops) So we blasted through "Diamond Dogs" just to leave without bruising (though they'd never heard that one, either!) Blessings - 'Enoboye'

You could record cuts from all his releases n have a killer Bowie tape everyone would want a copy for example Suffergate City Modern Love Let's Dance RebelRebel Heroes Stay Under Pressure China Girl Fame Young American Space Oddity etc😅

O.M.G. I have Bowie stories, beginning about 1974. Why is Angela at my front door, drunk? Is this David this slight thin man in front of me at the coffee machine at this A.A. meeting? David is whisking Iggy Pop out of the basement apartment in 1975 and will drag him to Berlin. Why is Iggy at my front door saying "Hi! My name is Jimmy...can you spare some weed?" 1974. So many stories.

btw i also think you're adorable. keep up the good work.