Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (film)

Infobox Album
Name = Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: The Motion Picture
Type = video
Artist = David Bowie


Released = 1983
Recorded = 3 July 1973
Genre = Rock
Last album =
This album = "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: The Motion Picture" (1983)
Next album = "Love You Till Tuesday" (1984)

"Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: The Motion Picture" was a 1973 documentary and concert movie by D.A. Pennebaker. It features David Bowie and his backing group The Spiders from Mars performing at the Hammersmith Odeon, July 3rd 1973.

Bowie had taken the stage persona of "Ziggy Stardust", a science fiction based, theatrical, enigmatic, androgynous bisexual character and produced two albums during this period. This evening was the last show in the concert tour promoting Bowie's 1973 album "Aladdin Sane" and the 60th gig in a tour of Britain that started on May 12th.

At the end of the evening, aptly just before the song "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide", Bowie announced that, "Not only is this is it the last show of the tour, but it's the last show that we'll ever do." To the audience it was unclear whether he meant as Bowie or as Ziggy but he had at that moment killed off his Ziggy persona.

Track listing

30th Anniversary DVD

# Opening Credits/Intro - Incorporating Beethoven's Ninth Symphony arranged and performed by Wendy Carlos
# "Hang on to Yourself" (Bowie) from the album "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars"
# "Ziggy Stardust" (Bowie) from the album "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars"
# "Watch That Man" (Bowie) from the album "Aladdin Sane"
# "Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud" (Bowie) from the album "Space Oddity"
# "All the Young Dudes" (Bowie) originally penned for Mott the Hoople
# "Oh! You Pretty Things (Bowie) from the album "Hunky Dory"
# "Moonage Daydream" (Bowie) from the album "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars"
# "Changes" (Bowie) from the album "Hunky Dory"
# "Space Oddity" (Bowie) from the album "Space Oddity"
# "My Death" (Jacques Brel, Mort Shuman/) - originally written by Brel as "La Mort" and translated into English by Shuman and Eric Blau. From the Brel album "La Valse à Mille Temps"
# "Cracked Actor" (Bowie) from the album "Aladdin Sane"
# "Time" (Bowie) from the album "Aladdin Sane"
# "The Width of a Circle" (Bowie) from the album "The Man Who Sold the World
# Band introduction - spoken word
# "Let's Spend the Night Together" (Mick Jagger, /Keith Richards) from the Bowie album "Aladdin Sane' originally performed by The Rolling Stones
# "Suffragette City" (Bowie) from the album "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars"
# "White Light/White Heat" (Lou Reed) from the album "White Light/White Heat" by the Velvet Underground
# Farewell Speech - spoken word
# "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" (Bowie) from the album "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars"
# End Credits - incorporating Pomp and Circumstance by Edward Elgar

Cast

* David Bowie – Himself / "Ziggy Stardust"
* Mick Ronson – Himself
* Trevor Bolder – Himself
* Mick 'Woody' Woodmansey – Himself
* Angela Bowie – Herself

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086643/ "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" on the IMdb]
* [http://www.phfilms.com/index.php/phf/film/ziggy_stardust_and_the_spiders_from_mars_1973_bowies_last_performance_as_zi/ "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" on the Pennebaker Hegedus Films website]