Moonage Daydream: The Life & Times of Ziggy Stardust

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Now, celebrating 50 years of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, a new edition is to be published 14th June 2022. From Oscar-nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen, director of Cobain: Montage of Heck, and featuring never-before-seen concert footage, MOONAGE DAYDREAM is an immersive cinematic experience; an audio-visual space odyssey that not only illuminates the enigmatic legacy of David Bowie but also serves as a guide to living a fulfilling and meaningful life in the 21st Century. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. We’ll be posting more of Mick Rock’s incredible Bowie portraits from Moonage Daydream over the coming weeks.

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Ziggy Stardust blazed briefly but intensely, and I am delighted to see his life and times as a rock’n’roll star immortalised in this book,” Bowie wrote of the first edition. Tim Wheeler of the Northern Irish rock band Ash, in an interview with Q magazine, said, "With Bowie, you're spoilt for choice when it comes to sci-fi-inspired songs. Moonage Daydream, the first documentary authorised by David Bowie's estate, features never-before-seen footage of Bowie, including concert footage from Earl's Court, London, in 1978, where excited fans can be seen running into the arena, followed by Bowie performing Heroes on stage. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. First edition, signed limited issue, number 2,204 of 2,500 copies signed by David Bowie and Mick Rock.

Ebenfalls zu sehen sind Bilder der Fotostudio-Sessions für das Pin Ups-Cover und der vier bahnbrechenden Musikvideos, bei denen Mick Rock für Bowie Regie führte und filmte. Doggett believes that had the track and "Hang On to Yourself" not been re-recorded for Ziggy Stardust, they would have been forgotten. Regardless of whether anyone likes the film, I got so much from David, it was such a personal experience for me," he explains. Doggett states that after learning from the "vocal agonies" of the Arnold Corns recording, the Spiders decided to record the song three semitones lower than before.

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Biographer Peter Doggett wrote the original version had a "playful science-fiction-inspired chorus, two nondescript verses with a single memorable line, and an arrangement that not only racked his voice like a martyr under the Inquisition but virtually defined the word 'shambolic'. His sharp, often humorous text discusses the origins of the Ziggy Stardust stage persona, comments on Mick Rock's photographs, and gives unprecedented insight into Ziggy's stratospheric two-year career.One guy says, with the passion of a convert on whom enlightenment is dawning like the rising sun: “You don’t have to be bent to wear makeup! The documentary also focuses on the singer's artistic interests in sculpture, theatre, film and painting, and his travels in East Asia, as well living in Berlin in the then East Germany in the 1970s, saying he wanted to make himself "uncomfortable". It is a genre-defying cinematic experience based on one of the most iconic and global rock stars of all time, destined to be one of the defining cultural moments of the year The film has the full support of Bowie’s estate and features many of his greatest tracks, as well as previously unseen concert footage.