Ziggy Stardust.
Wow. It almost sounds like the music was already written the moment David Bowie came up with the name. Mick Ronson might disagree...but that name.
Five years. This song demands you sing along with it with everything you can muster. I once sang this song so loud and with such gusto at an intersection that the van full of kids next to me ran a red light. Out of fear maybe....to get away from a guy butchering David Bowie, probably.
The last verse is my favorite, and when I heard it I fell in love with glam. Glam is not really about aliens or space travel, it's about a lonely guy filled with emotion watching a girl drinking a milk shake. He could walk in and talk to her but he knows he does not fit in. Instead he writes a song.
The emotions inside of this singer are so big and powerful that it takes made-up names, aliens and end of the world to express them. Wow.
Lyric of Note (As I heard it):
I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlor,
Drinking milk shakes cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine,
Dont think you knew you were in this song
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