Over half a century on from his creation, Ziggy Stardust arguably remains the most beloved character from David Bowie’s illustrious six-decade career. Combining glamour and a then-outrageous sexuality ...

The genius of David Bowie didn’t lie so much in how he reinvented his personae but in how he concealed their formations from the world. During the space of about a presidential term, Bowie went from ...

It’s probably safe to assume that anyone who clicked on this article already knows the context of David Bowie’s culture-shifting 1972 album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From ...

Suzi Ronson was a 21-year-old stylist when a chance encounter with Bowie's mother changed her life. Now she's sharing her intimate Starman memories in a new memoir Roger Bamber/TopFoto The year was ...

LONDON - JUNE 1972: Musician David Bowie poses for a portrait in his "Ziggy Stardust" guise in June 1972 in London, England. David Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust returns to a pair of ...

What could have been a mere bit of exposition in lesser hands turns into a striking rise-and-fall story all on its own, meaning that it can stand alone even without the context of the rest of the ...

"ZIGGY Stardust and the Spiders From Mars" looks like a bootleg concert video made by a gifted fan. Documentary director D.A. Pennebaker was clearly gifted -- he already had "Don't Look Back" and ...

Adam Behr has received funding from the British Academy and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. In 1964, a bunch of mop-topped young men appeared on the BBC’s early evening Tonight programme, ...

David Bowie began his career as Davie Jones when he released a single in 1964 with the King Bees. He went on to release a record under the name Davy Jones before changing it due to the emergence of ...

Bowie’s brilliant 1971-1980 hot streak — one of the greatest bursts of creativity in contemporary music history — began in 1971 with the “Hunky Dory” album and soared into the stratosphere with “Ziggy ...