Because I wrote it in such a way that I just dropped the numbers into the album in any order that they cropped up. Speaking about the theme, Bowie said: “What you have there on that album when it does finally come out, is a story which doesn’t really take place, it’s just a few little scenes from the life of a band called Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, who could feasibly be the last band on Earth-it could be within the last five years of Earth. The album has a loose concept and in fact, the story was only pieced together after most of the material have been recorded. He named his new alter ego, Ziggy Stardust – the first name taken from a tailor’s shop called Ziggy’s that he passed by while on a train. Producer Ken Scott said, “He always described how he’d take bits and pieces from all over the place, put them in a melting pot and they’d come out being him.” Bowie drew inspiration for the character from British rock ‘n’ roll singer Vince Taylor but he also had other influences like Legendary Stardust Cowboy and Japanese designer Kansai Yamamoto. Ziggy Stardust was a fictional androgynous bisexual alien rockstar who became a messenger for extraterrestrial creatures. So at a time when hard rock and heavy metal were becoming the most prominent subgenres, Bowie went the other way and blazed his own trail. Bowie’s artistic vision has always strayed away from what was trendy or what fans were currently subscribing to.
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