'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars' is a concept album based on the story of a fictional rock star who is the human manifestation of an alien being attempting to present humanity with a message of hope in its last years of existence. It was intended to serve as the basis for a stage show and/or television production. Its sales earned it a platinum disc in the U.K. and gold in the U.S.A.
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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Ziggy Stardust
The plaque was originally unveiled on the 6th December 2001. It was taken dow...
David Bowie, 1947 - 2016. His albums Hunky Dory and The Rise & Fall of Zi...
This is an authorised plaque but Westminster, as revealed in the official dec...
Cornetist and trumpeter. Born in Great Yarmouth. When he was in the merchant navy, he jumped ship in Mobile, Alabama and travelled to New Orleans where he joined the George Lewis band. He was event...
The Joe Meek Society (formerly Joe Meek Appreciation Society) was formed in the early nineties to remember and celebrate the music and life of legendary sixties record producer and song writer Joe ...
Writer of hymns and religious studies. Born Jemima Thompson in Islington. She planned to do missionary work in India, but illness prevented her from doing so. She married the Reverend Samuel Luke, ...
Arts centre. Oversees the Hayward Gallery, the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Saison Poetry Library, and the Arts Council Collection.
Music and dance conservatoire based in Greenwich. It was formed with the amalgamation of the Trinity College of Music and the Laban Dance Centre.
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