The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
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Nov 3, 2026
Liv ThompsonCORRESPONDENT
The walls are covered with objects, some of which have never actually been seen in public before.
Liv ThompsonCORRESPONDENT
In one section, you've got iconic costumes and the guitar from the Ziggy Stardust era.
Liv ThompsonCORRESPONDENT
Further in, you've got handwritten lyrics, original album cover drawings and script notes for Bowie's films.
Liv ThompsonCORRESPONDENT
Curator Svetlana Panova told me each item here was chosen very carefully.
Albie SelznickGUEST
And so...
Albie SelznickGUEST
One day, my magic partner, this was when I was about 12, gave me an album from David Bowie called Ziggy Stardust.
Albie SelznickGUEST
And it was about, you know, this messiah from outer space.
Albie SelznickGUEST
And part of my kind of journey was when I was going through my sad time was talking to UFOs in my mind, saying, okay, come get me.
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Albie SelznickGUEST
Sometimes brand new band members, a completely different character.
Albie SelznickGUEST
You know, he did what he called the Thin White Duke.
Albie SelznickGUEST
He did the Ziggy Stardust.
Albie SelznickGUEST
He did like a folk singer.
Lee AddisonHOST
Benny Hill.
Lee AddisonHOST
As you mentioned earlier, or you intimated earlier, David Bowie released the whole Ziggy Stardust thing and a couple of albums that year, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust.
Tony CollinsGUEST
Here's the thing about Northern accents.
Tony CollinsGUEST
You said David Bowie.
Tony CollinsGUEST
Well, I'm going to start my sentence again then.
Tony CollinsGUEST
David Bowie released the rise and fall
Lee AddisonHOST
of Ziggy Stardust.
Lee AddisonHOST
I hope we're pronouncing that right.
Lea ThauHOST
But in high school, Frank found his style and his stride thanks in large part to the friends he made, including Gary Valletri, who sat next to him in science class.
Frank D'AmicoGUEST
Gary's the one that sent me home with David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
Frank D'AmicoGUEST
And that record spoke to me loudly.
Frank D'AmicoGUEST
Because I knew I was different than the other boys in Pleasant Valley, Leah.
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Lea ThauHOST
Despite growing up so close to the city, Frank had never been there as a kid.
Lea ThauHOST
As a teenager, he'd gone down a few times with friends to see bands at Madison Square Garden, but his buddies had been so terrified of the crime-infested 1970s New York that they had run from and to the car and had never wanted to explore the city, much to Frank's chagrin.
Lea ThauHOST
But Gary, the friend who had sent him home with Ziggy Stardust and who was now his roommate, shared Frank's curiosity about the city, and they loved the same kind of music.
Lea ThauHOST
So one night in December 1976, they made a pilgrimage.
Lee AddisonHOST
Benny Hill.
Lee AddisonHOST
As you mentioned earlier, or you intimated earlier, David Bowie released the whole Ziggy Stardust thing and a couple of albums that year, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust.
Tony CollinsGUEST
Here's the thing about Northern accents.
Tony CollinsGUEST
You said David Bowie.
Tony CollinsGUEST
Well, I'm going to start my sentence again then.
Tony CollinsGUEST
David Bowie
Lee AddisonHOST
released The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust.
Lee AddisonHOST
I hope we're pronouncing that right.
Lee AddisonHOST
Benny Hill.
Lee AddisonHOST
As you mentioned earlier, or you intimated earlier, David Bowie released the whole Ziggy Stardust thing and a couple of albums that year, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust.
Tony CollinsGUEST
Here's the thing about Northern accents.
Tony CollinsGUEST
You said David Bowie.
Tony CollinsGUEST
Well, I'm going to start my sentence again then.
Tony CollinsGUEST
David Bowie
Lee AddisonHOST
released the rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust.
Lee AddisonHOST
I hope we're pronouncing that right.
John HeilemannHOST
It's like we're less than three weeks out, and this is where we've, this is where we've come, Neera.
John HeilemannHOST
A man wearing more eyeliner than David Bowie in the, in the Ziggy Stardust era, [laughs] who also happens to be the Vice President of the United States, uh, is, uh, questioning the sexual, uh, and other proclivities of a, a Senate candidate in Texas.
John HeilemannHOST
In Texas.
Neera TandenGUEST
Yeah.
Tim FriedmannHOST
Generally speaking.
Tim FriedmannHOST
Ziggy Stardust, number 10.
Tim FriedmannHOST
Rumors, number nine.
Tim FriedmannHOST
We both agree that's a fair assessment of where it should be.
Tim FriedmannHOST
I'm sure.
Tim FriedmannHOST
Yeah.
Tim FriedmannHOST
Including Ziggy Stardust.
Tim FriedmannHOST
So I'm glad our listeners came up with that one.
JeffHOST
In general, the results of the album were due to the whole band's decision as a group and efforts of compromise.
JeffHOST
Just prior to release of the album, Bauhaus scored their greatest hit with a cover of David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust.
JeffHOST
This was recorded during a BBC session.
JeffHOST
The song was chosen by the band to spite their critics who accused them of being a band that copied David Bowie.
JeffHOST
This kind of comment about copying Bowie seemed to annoy the members of the band.
JeffHOST
Ash explained that the band did not care about their critics and has said, so we thought we'd do the opposite of what they'd expect and promptly release Ziggy.
JeffHOST
Fully realizing that doing a David Bowie cover song would really get at the press and annoy them, Bauhaus decided to add to that by recording a remake of Brian Eno's Third Uncle on the release of Ziggy Stardust.
JeffHOST
Then for the 12-inch version, the group further included a live cover of Velvet Underground's Waiting for the Man.
SteveHOST
It's totally off the chain.
SteveHOST
So you've gone for something off Ziggy Stardust.
SteveHOST
Is that your favourite
Andrew BrownGUEST
album from that period? It is.
Andrew BrownGUEST
It's such a broad church.
Andrew BrownGUEST
But I was trying to, and it's the category that I found the hardest to... to sort of work out really and decide on.
Andrew BrownGUEST
And I flip flop the most, but, um, I decided to go for David Bowie song from Ziggy Stardust because it is my favorite album.
Andrew BrownGUEST
And so I thought, well, that's a, that's a good marker.
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