Escrita por David Bowie, foi gravada por 11 de novembro de 1971 e lançada em 16 de junho de 1972 no disco The rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars. A banda que gravou com ele foram os Spiders from Mars, que era formada por Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder e Mick Woodmansey.
Fala de Ziggy Stardust, um alienigena bissexual, que se torna rock star e que é mensageiro de seres extraterrestres. É o número 282 das lista das 500 maiores canções de todos os tempos, da revista Rolling Stone. É também uma das 500 cançoes que deram forma ao rock and roll do Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
David Bowie cantou e tocou violão de 12 cordas. Mick Ronson tocou guitarras. Trevor Bolder tocou baixo e Mick Woodmansey tocou bateria.
A letra:
Oh
Oh, yeah
Ziggy played
guitar
Jamming good with Weird and Gilly
And the Spiders from
Mars
He played it left hand
But made it too far
Became the
special man
Then we were Ziggy's band
Ziggy really
sang
Screwed-up eyes and screwed-down hairdo
Like some cat from
Japan
He could lick 'em by smiling
He could leave 'em to
hang
They came on so loaded, man
Well-hung and snow-white tan
So where were the
spiders
While the fly tried to break our bones?
With just the
beer light to guide us
So we bitched about his fans
And should
we crush his sweet hands?
Oh
Mm-hmm
Ziggy played for
time
Jiving us that we were voodoo
The kids were just crass
He
was the nazz
With God-given ass
He took it all too far
But,
boy, could he play guitar
Making love with his
ego
Ziggy sucked up into his mind, ah
Like a leper messiah
When
the kids had killed the man
I had to break up the band
Oh, yeah
Ooh
Ziggy played guitar
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