Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (film)

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Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: The Motion Picture
Video by David Bowie
Released	1983
Recorded	3 July 1973
Genre	Rock
David Bowie video chronology
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: The Motion Picture (1983) Love You Till Tuesday (1984)

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: The Motion Picture was a 1973 documentary and concert movie by D.A. Pennebaker. It features David Bowie and his backing group The Spiders from Mars performing at the Hammersmith Odeon, July 3rd 1973.

Bowie had taken the stage persona of "Ziggy Stardust", a science fiction based, theatrical, enigmatic, androgynous bisexual character and produced two albums during this period. This evening was the last show in the concert tour promoting Bowie's 1973 album Aladdin Sane and the 60th gig in a tour of Britain that started on May 12th.

At the end of the evening, aptly just before the song "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide", Bowie announced that, Not only is this is it the last show of the tour, but it's the last show that we'll ever do. To the audience it was unclear whether he meant as Bowie or as Ziggy but he had at that moment killed off his Ziggy persona.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] 30th Anniversary DVD

1. Opening Credits/Intro - Incorporating Beethoven's Ninth Symphony arranged and performed by Wendy Carlos
2. "Hang on to Yourself" (Bowie) taken from the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
3. "Ziggy Stardust" (Bowie) taken from the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
4. "Watch That Man" (Bowie) taken from the album Aladdin Sane
5. "Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud" (Bowie) taken from the album Space Oddity
6. "All the Young Dudes" (Bowie) originally penned for Mott the Hoople
7. "Oh! You Pretty Things (Bowie) taken from the album Hunky Dory
8. "Moonage Daydream" (Bowie) taken from the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
9. "Changes" (Bowie) from the album Hunky Dory
10. "Space Oddity" (Bowie) from the album Space Oddity (album)
11. "My Death" (Eric Blau/Mort Shuman/Jacques Brel) - originally written by Brel as "La Mort" and translated into English by Shuman and Blau. From the Brel album La Valse à Mille Temps
12. "Cracked Actor" (Bowie) from the album Aladdin Sane
13. "Time" (Bowie) from the album Aladdin Sane
14. "The Width of a Circle" (Bowie) from the album The Man Who Sold the World
15. Band introduction - spoken word
16. "Let's Spend the Night Together" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) from the Bowie album Aladdin Sane originally performed by the Rolling Stones
17. "Suffragette City" (Bowie) from the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
18. "White Light/White Heat" (Lou Reed) from the album White Light/White Heat by the Velvet Underground
19. Farewell Speech - spoken word
20. "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" (Bowie) from the album Ziggy Stardust
21. End Credits - incorporating Pomp and Circumstance by Edward Elgar

Cast

• David Bowie ... Himself / Ziggy Stardust
• Mick Ronson ... Himself
• Trevor Bolder ... Himself
• Mick 'Woody' Woodmansey ... Himself
• Angela Bowie ... Herself

[edit] External links

• Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars on the IMdb
• Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars on the Pennebaker Hegedus Films website

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