The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (2012 Re master, Half-Speed Mastering)

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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardustand the Spiders from Marsis the breakthrough album that catapultedDavid Bowieinto the international spotlight. Over the past 50 years it has remained a touchstone record, growing in stature with each passing year. It is now ingrained in popular culture, its undeniable influence spanning musicians from Arcade Fire to Lady Gaga, to Harry Styles’s androgynous fashion sense to Noel Fielding’s shirts onThe Great British Bake-Offto Ziggy make-up challenges on Tik-Tok. Bowie laid to rest the Ziggy Stardust persona in July 1973 at his infamous last show with the Spiders From Mars at London’s Hammersmith Odeon, but Ziggy’s impact reverberates to this day.

This50th anniversary vinyl LPpressing ofThe Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardustand the Spiders from Marswas cut on a fully customized late Neumann VMS80 lathe with fully re-capped electronics from 192 kHz restored mastered of the original Trident Studios master tapes, with no additional processing on transfer.The half speed was cut by John Webber at AIR Studios.

1. Five Years
2. Soul Love
3. Moonage Daydream
4. Starman
5. It Ain’t Easy
6. Lady Stardust
7. Star
8. Hang on to Yourself
9. Ziggy Stardust
10. Suffragette City
11. Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide