1212 – David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust (1972)

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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