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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars by David Bowie

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    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Five Years (1999 Digital Remaster) 4:41 1,099
2 Soul Love (1999 Digital Remaster) 3:32 1,608
3 Moonage Daydream (1999 Digital Remaster) 4:36 1,143
4 Starman (1999 Digital Remaster) 4:12 1,236
5 It Ain't Easy (1999 Digital Remaster) 2:56 910
6 Lady Stardust (1999 Digital Remaster) 3:19 928
7 Star (1999 Digital Remaster) 2:46 833
8 Hang On To Yourself (1999 Digital Remaster) 2:36 886
9 Ziggy Stardust (1999 Digital Remaster) 3:12 1,239
10 Suffragette City (1999 Digital Remaster) 3:22 1,004
11 Rock 'N' Roll Suicide (1999 Digital Remaster) 2:58 1,060
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EMI UK (2006) Released: 21 Aug 2006 11 tracks (38:10)
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars is a 1972 concept album by English rock musician David Bowie. It peaked at number five in the United Kingdom and number 75 in the United States on the Billboard Music Charts. A concert film of the same name directed by D.A. Pennebaker was released in 1973.

Upon its release on 6 June 1972, Ziggy Stardust reached number five in the UK and number seventy-five in the US. The album was eventually certified platinum and gold in the UK and US respectively. The only single from the record, “Starman”, charted at number ten in the UK while peaking at the sixty-fifth spot in the US.

In 1997, Ziggy Stardust was named the 20th greatest album of all time in a Music of the Millennium poll conducted in the United Kingdom by HMV Group, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM. In 1998, Q magazine readers placed it at number 24 and Virgin All-time Top 1000 Albums ranked it at number 11, while in 2003 the TV network VH1 placed it at number 48. It was named the 35th best album ever made by Rolling Stone on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In 2000 Q placed it at number 25 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2004 it was placed at number 81 in Pitchfork Media’s Top 100 Albums of the 1970s. In his 1995 book, “The Alternative Music Almanac,” Alan Cross placed the album in the #3 spot on the list of ‘10 Classic Alternative Albums’. In 2006, the album was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best albums of all time.
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  • Oriol1992

    I think I have a new favorite album. FML for taking me so long to realise this [2]

    last week

  • matt_white

    phenomenal rock album

    13 days ago

  • domi_mcrmy

    remove '(1999 Digital Remaster)' from the album track list totally unnecessary (3)

    20 days ago

  • miretucielo

    remove '(1999 Digital Remaster)' from the album track list totally unnecessary

    20 days ago

  • klastch

    Tá aí um discão que mudou minha vida.

    last month

  • kanto_sho

    remove '(1999 Digital Remaster)' from the album track list totally unnecessary

    last month

  • gregcobra

    Best Bowie album !

    last month

  • silverlage

    t7b

    March 2012

  • brrruno_

    fodendo meu itunes desde 1972

    March 2012

  • jae__moon

    "Coop_R = WRONG!" <--yep, somebody's opinion is "wrong"

    February 2012

  • DannyB01

    I think I have a new favorite album. FML for taking me so long to realise this.

    January 2012

  • henrieta_r_hipo

    This is madness. And I finally got it in my own hands *.*!!!!!!!!

    January 2012

  • innerspeaker

    "It's hard to explain how much better this is than everything else Bowie has done. Innit?" Station To Station and Low are better than this.

    December 2011

  • MajorTom1234567

    too gay, too good . :-D And the masterpiece which made me a Bowie fan.

    December 2011

  • madmac17

    Coop_R = WRONG!

    December 2011

  • madmac17

    It's hard to explain how much better this is than everything else Bowie has done. Innit?

    December 2011

  • dafigz_2011

    My Chrissy present one cold, gray December morning... my parents listening and watching as I pranced and whirled about the house enraptured by this musician calling himself, Ziggy Stardust!

    December 2011

  • Joqd

    Amazing album which should be listened over & over...

    November 2011

  • MusicMagic77

    Of course everyone talk about only David Bowie and forget Bowie's backing band the SPIDERS FROM MARS >> Conclusion?

    October 2011

  • jerry900i

    As great today as the day it came out, back in my youth.

    October 2011
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