David Bowie - The Remains From The Rise Of Ziggy Stardust (Bootleg)

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This compilation includes all the tracks left off the ''David Bowie - The Best Of The BBC Radio Sessions 67-72'' official release. The 4CD compilation was plagued with last second of songs ending up on the first part of the next track, and there was sometimes a slight segment of silence a second before the end of a track. They were re-tracked and the silences were removed. Disc 1 * Tracks 1-5 : Top Gear Session, Piccadilly 1 Studio (18 December 1967). This session was aired on 24-12-67 and repeated on 28-01-68. All songs scored and performed by Arthur Greenslade and his 16 piece orchestra; individual musicians unknown. David Bowie: vocals and guitar. Produced by Bernie Andrews. * Track 6 : Top Gear Session, Piccadilly 1 Studio (13 May 1968). Aired on 26-05-68 and repeated on 20-06-68. Performed by David Bowie and the 14 piece "Tony Visconti Orchestra", including Herbie Flowers: bass; Barry Morgan: drums; John Mclaughlin: guitar; David Bowie: vocals and guitar; David Bowie, Tony Visconti, Steve Peregrine-Took: backing vocals; unknown string players. Produced by Tony Visconti. * Track 7: Dave Lee Travis Session, Studio 2, Aeolian Hall (20 October 1969). Aired on 26-10-69. Performed by David Bowie and Junior's Eyes: David Bowie: vocals and guitar; Mick Wayne: guitar; Tim Renwick: guitar; John Lodge: bass; John Cambridge: drums. Produced by Paul Williams. * Tracks 8-15 : John Peel Sunday Show Session, BBC Paris Studio (05 February 1970). Performed by David Bowie and The Tony Visconti Trio (a.k.a. The Hype): John Cambridge: drums; Tony Visconti: bass; Mick Ronson: guitar; David Bowie: vocals and guitar. Produced by Jeff Griffin. 

This probably is Bowie's most interesting BBC recording, as he played a number of songs of which the only live version is available from this show. * Tracks 16-18: Andy Ferris Sounds Of The Seventies Session, Playhouse Theatre (25 March 1970). By David Bowie and The Hype: David Bowie: vocals and guitar; Mick Ronson: guitar; Tony Visconti: bass; John Cambridge: drums. Produced by Bernie Andrews. Disc 2 * Tracks 1-4: John Peel In Concert Session, BBC Paris Studio (05 June 1971). This concert by Bowie and friends was aired on 20-06-71. David Bowie: vocals, piano, 12-string guitar; Mark Carr-Pritchard: guitar; Mick Ronson: guitar; Trevor Bolder: bass; Mick Woodmansey: drums; George Underwood, Dana Gillespie and Geoffrey Alexander: vocals and backing vocals. Produced by Jeff Griffin. SONGS EDITED TO REMOVE RELEASED TRACKS WHILE STILL MAINTAINING THE SONGS INTROS! * Tracks 5-9: Bob Harris Sounds Of The Seventies Session, Studio T1, Kensington House (21 September 1971). Aired at 04-10-71. David Bowie: vocals, piano and guitar; Mick Ronson: guitar, backing vocals and bass. Produced by John Muir. FADED ''Oh! You Pretty Things'' TO REMOVE ''EIGHT LINE POEM'', WHICH IS AVAILABLE! * Tracks 10-13: John Peel Sounds Of The Seventies Session, Studio T1, Kensington House (11 January 1972). Aired on 28-01-72. David Bowie: vocals and guitar; Mick Ronson: guitar, piano and backing vocals; Trevor Bolder: bass; Mick Woodmansey: drums. Produced by Jeff Griffin. With this January 1972 session, Bowie and the Spiders unleashed Ziggy Stardust to the world! * Track 14: Bob Harris Sounds Of The Seventies Session, Maida Vale Studio 5 (23 May 1972). Broadcast at 19-06-72. David Bowie: vocals and guitar; Mick Ronson: guitar, piano and backing vocals; Trevor Bolder: bass; Mick Woodmansey: drums. Produced by Jeff Griffin. * Tracks 15-17: BBC Radio Broadcast (21 September 1972). A sessions aired on the Rick Wakeman show. They comment on the fact that these are collectors items and were recorded for the BBC on 21-09-72. However, this is unverifiable.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (often shortened to Ziggy Stardust) 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.

Conception and inspiration
The album presents, albeit vaguely, the story of "Ziggy Stardust", the human manifestation of an alien being who is attempting to present humanity with a message of hope in the last five years of its existence. Ziggy Stardust is the definitive rock star: sexually promiscuous, wild in drug intake and with a message, ultimately, of peace and love; but he is destroyed both by his own excesses of drugs and sex, and by the fans he inspired.

In interviews, Bowie has said that the real-life inspiration for Ziggy was chiefly Vince Taylor, though the lyrics hint at Jimi Hendrix ("played it left hand ... jiving us that we were voodoo") and the character was likely a composite. Bowie claimed that the name came from a tailor's shop in London called Ziggy's. He later told Rolling Stone it was "one of the few Christian names I could find beginning with the letter 'Z'". "Stardust" comes from one of Bowie's labelmates, a country singer named Norman Carl Odam, The Legendary Stardust Cowboy. Bowie covered a Legendary Stardust Cowboy song, "I Took a Trip (On a Gemini Spaceship)" thirty years later on Heathen.

Production
The Ziggy Stardust sessions began just a few weeks after Hunky Dory was released. The first song recorded for the album, the cover "It Ain't Easy", was recorded in September 1971. The first session in November produced "Hang on to Yourself", "Ziggy Stardust", "Rock 'n' Roll Star" (later shortened to "Star"), "Moonage Daydream", "Soul Love", "Lady Stardust", and "Five Years".

Also recorded during the November Ziggy Sessions were two more cover songs intended for the as-yet untitled album. They were Chuck Berry's "Around and Around" (re-titled "Round and Round") and Jacques Brel's "Amsterdam" (re-titled "Port of Amsterdam"). A re-recording of "Holy Holy" (first recorded in 1970 and released as a single, to poor sales, in January 1971) was initially slated for Ziggy, but was dropped in favour of "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide". "Round and Round" was replaced by "Starman" and "It Ain't Easy" replaced "Amsterdam" on the album's final running order. All three were eventually released as b-sides.

"Velvet Goldmine", first recorded during the Hunky Dory sessions, was also intended for Ziggy, but was replaced by "Suffragette City". RCA released it in 1975 as the b-side to the UK re-release of "Space Oddity" after having it remixed and mastered without Bowie's approval.

After recording some of the new songs for Sounds of the 70s with Bob Harris (which appear on Bowie at the Beeb) as the newly-dubbed Spiders from Mars in January-February 1972, the band returned to Trident. They recorded "Starman", "Suffragette City", and "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" by the end of the month.

"Starman", released as a single in April (and not intended for the final album at first), has never appeared in its original "loud" mix on CD. It differs somewhat in that it "features a subdued 'morse code' section between the verse and the chorus" compared to the original released in 1972. "Starman"'s b-side, "Suffragette City", was mastered for the album with a three-note coda leading in from "Ziggy Stardust" to make the songs sound linked. They were never played as such by Bowie in concert.

Recorded and released during the ensuing Ziggy tour were two other songs. The first, "John, I'm Only Dancing", was recorded at Trident in late June and released (in the UK only) in September. "The Jean Genie", recorded at RCA Studios in New York in early October at the start of the American tour, was released in the US in November. The song was remixed for Aladdin Sane.

Rock keyboardist Rick Wakeman was given the opportunity to play keyboards on the album but Rick opted to join the progressive rock group Yes instead.

Plot
The album was intended by Bowie to serve as the soundtrack and musical basis for a stage show and/or television production telling the story of Ziggy Stardust. As well as the songs on the album, Bowie also intended songs such as "All the Young Dudes", "Rebel Rebel" and "Rock 'n' Roll With Me" (the latter two later recorded for Diamond Dogs) for this realisation of the Ziggy story. In a Rolling Stone interview with William S. Burroughs, Bowie outlined the full plot of the Ziggy Stardust story:

The time is five years to go before the end of the earth. It has been announced that the world will end because of lack of natural resources. Ziggy is in a position where all the kids have access to things that they thought they wanted. The older people have lost all touch with reality and the kids are left on their own to plunder anything. Ziggy was in a rock-and-roll band and the kids no longer want rock-and-roll. There's no electricity to play it. Ziggy's adviser tells him to collect news and sing it, 'cause there is no news. So Ziggy does this and there is terrible news. 'All the young dudes' is a song about this news. It's no hymn to the youth as people thought. It is completely the opposite.
The end comes when the infinites arrive. They really are a black hole, but I've made them people because it would be very hard to explain a black hole on stage. 

Ziggy is advised in a dream by the infinites to write the coming of a Starman, so he writes 'Starman', which is the first news of hope that the people have heard. So they latch onto it immediately...The starmen that he is talking about are called the infinites, and they are black-hole jumpers. Ziggy has been talking about this amazing spaceman who will be coming down to save the earth. They arrive somewhere in Greenwich Village. They don't have a care in the world and are of no possible use to us. They just happened to stumble into our universe by black hole jumping. Their whole life is travelling from universe to universe. In the stage show, one of them resembles Brando, another one is a Black New Yorker. I even have one called Queenie, the Infinite Fox...Now Ziggy starts to believe in all this himself and thinks himself a prophet of the future starmen. He takes himself up to the incredible spiritual heights and is kept alive by his disciples. When the infinites arrive, they take bits of Ziggy to make them real because in their original state they are anti-matter and cannot exist in our world. And they tear him to pieces on stage during the song 'Rock 'n' roll suicide'. As soon as Ziggy dies on stage the infinites take his elements and make themselves visible.

The more generally acknowledged story, however, has Ziggy Stardust himself being the "starman", from Mars, who has come to save the Earth with messages of love and peace, and Bowie has referred to Ziggy as a "Martian" in several interviews.

Styles and themes
Simple two-syllable phrases provide the spine for "Suffragette City" ("hey man"), "Hang on to Yourself" ("come on"), "Lady Stardust" ("all right"), and "Five Years" ("five years").

"Starman", the album's single, has been described as a cross between mod and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow".

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 the issue of Rolling Stone from 20 July 1972, writer Richard Cromelin gave the album a favourable review of "at least a 99" (assumed out of 100), the review was written in a way that even though he thought it was a good album he did not believe in the lasting power of it or the style in general. In his review Cromelin writes "we should all say a brief prayer that his fortunes are made to rise and fall with the fate of the "drag-rock" sundrome".

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.

In 2005, Seu Jorge did a cover album of 14 Bowie songs, many of them from Ziggy Stardust, as a soundtrack for the movie The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou called The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions. The translation into Portuguese is not always exact, as Seu Jorge maintains the melodies and styles, but often varies the lyrics. Musician Saul Williams named his 2007, Trent Reznor produced album The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!. In 2009, Techno Cowboy covered the entire album from start to finish using just the Omnichord called "The Ziggy Stardust Omnichord Album".

Cover
The cover photograph was taken outside furriers, K. West, at 23 Heddon Street, London, W1. The rear cover of the original vinyl album bore the instruction "TO BE PLAYED AT MAXIMUM VOLUME", however this was omitted from the EMI 1999 re-release.

The album cover was among the ten chosen by the Royal Mail for a set of "Classic Album Cover" postage stamps issued in January 2010.

Disc 1:
01. Love You Till Tuesday
02. When I Live My Dream
03. Little Bombardier
04. Silly Boy Blue
05. In The Heat Of The Morning
06. When I'm Five
07. Unwashed & Somewhat Slightly
08. Buzz The Fuzz.
09. Karma Man
10. London Bye Ta-Ta
11. An Occasional Dream
12. Janine
13. The Wild-Eyed Boy From Freecloud
14. Fill Your Heart
15. The Prettiest Star
16. I'm Waiting For The Man
17. The Width Of A Circle
18. The Supermen

Disc 2:
01. Queen Bitch
02. The Supermen
03. Song For Bob Dylan (Featuring George Underwood)
04. Andy Warhol (Featuring Dana Gillespie)
05. Oh! You Pretty Things
06. Kooks
07. Fill Your Heart
08. Port Of Amsterdam
09. Andy Warhol
10. Ziggy Stardust
11. Queen Bitch
12. I'm Waiting For The Man
13. Lady Stardust
14. White Light White Heat
15. John, I'm Only Dancing
16. Lady Stardust
17. Star

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