BBC Radio 4 ~ David Bowie "Ziggy Stardust at 50" audio documentary

[joe frady]

Excellent radio programme to mark the golden 'jubilee' of Queen Ziggy...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00187c6

...If you can tune out the awful narration inserts by Toyah Wilcox, reading as if English is her 3rd language, reminding us all that she was once a laughable 'actress'... The rest is wonderful, with many actual rarities {Aylesbury September '71 tape, 'Ziggy' interview backstage at TotP, audio clips from the RCA NYC 1972 press conference, interviews with Kris Needs, Tris Penna, Ken Scott, Marc Almond and more}

Moz reference from Kris Needs, who refers to an early fan club letter from a Steven Morrissey of Manchester seen by him...

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[Famous when dead]

Looking forward to the book too.
Regards,
FWD.

 

[joe frady]

Looking forward to the book too.
Regards,
FWD.

God yeah

Saw an original Genesis Deluxe copy go for £18,ooo on eBay the other week...

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[joe frady]

Looking forward to the book too.
Regards,
FWD.

So close, you can smell it...

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[joe frady]

Having said that, í noticed this morning that numerous retailers are showing a new September 2022 publication date...?

Please. God. Noooo

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[joe frady]

Gotcha. Available via Waterstones site...

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[GirlAfraidWillNeverLearn]

Gotcha. Available via Waterstones site...

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'In Bed with Ziggy'

 

[goinghome]

Nice Variety article on this anniversary with a Morrissey mention:

Fifty years ago today [3 July 2023], on the stage of London’s Hammersmith Odeon, David Bowie killed Ziggy Stardust...For a generation of future musicians, it was the equivalent of the Beatles’ 1964 appearance on “Ed Sullivan Show,” including Boy George, U2’s Bono, the Clash’s Mick Jones, Siouxsie Sioux, the Cure’s Robert Smith, Morrissey and Johnny Marr of the Smiths, John Taylor and Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran, David Gahan of Depeche Mode and countless others...

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/david-bowie-killed-ziggy-stardust-1235660172

 

[Cornflakes]

Morrissey and Johnny Marr of the Smiths

From the Meat Is Murder tour programme.

(Although other evidence suggests Johnny is indeed a Bowie fan.)