Ziggy Stardust — заглавная песня легендарного альбома (1972), история инопланетного рок-мессии, погубленного собственным эго. Зигги играл на гитаре и творил чудеса.
Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly
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
Came on so loaded man, well hung and snow white tan.
So where were the spiders while the fly tried to break our balls
Just the beer light to guide us,
So we bitched about his fans and should we crush his sweet hands?
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
Like a leper messiah
When the kids had killed the man I had to break up the band.
Oh yeah
Ooooooo
Ziggy played guitaarrrrrr
Знаете ли вы, что...
- Имя Зигги было взято из вывески портняжной мастерской — Боуи искал имя на букву Z с отсылкой к Игги Попу. Фамилия Stardust — от Legendary Stardust Cowboy, малоизвестного техасского исполнителя. Образ вобрал в себя Винса Тейлора (рок-н-ролльщик, помешанный на Христе и инопланетянах), Джина Винсента (выступал с загипсованной ногой) и модель дизайнера Кансая Ямамото (рыжий маллет). Боуи убил персонажа на концерте в октябре 1973 года.