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Det gjorde han nemlig, men ofte p\u00e5 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars’<\/em>\u00a0lydside i skikkelse af den britiske raket Mick Ronson. Det er i dag pr\u00e6cis 40 \u00e5r siden David Bowie udsendte sin klassiske\u00a0<\/em>sangcyklus om, ja, hvad er historien egentlig? Har man f\u00f8rst set Nicolas Roeg’s\u00a0The Man Who Fell to Earth<\/em>\u00a0(1976) kan det v\u00e6re lidt vanskeligt, at holde den ene space-storyline adskilt fra den anden, s\u00e5 vi giver ordet til Bowie, fra et Rolling Stone-interview af en vis William Burroughs:<\/p>\n

– 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. […]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

– 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. […]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

– 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.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Ziggy-karakteren var mestendels inspireret af det britiske rocknroll-f\u00e6nomen Vince Taylor – mest kendt for sin original af ‘Brand New Cadillac’ – der efter sit nervesammenbrud troede han var en alien, sendt ned til os fra det ydre rum. Kul\u00f8rte sager, men mindre sv\u00e6vende er Bowie’s musik, der i en samling enkle, umiddelbart melodi\u00f8se og ydest formfuldendte sange pr\u00e6senterede en ny stram, rocknrollenergisk Bowie, det efter Hunky Dory<\/em>‘s mere musikalsk komplicerede og let-trippede intime tilgang. Ziggy Stardust<\/em> var og er en us\u00e6dvanligt homogen longplayer. Kig lige en gang indenfor p\u00e5 den n\u00e6sten ufejlbarlige tracklist:<\/p>\n

Five Years<\/strong>
\nSoul Love<\/strong>
\nMoonage Daydream<\/strong>
\nStarman<\/strong>
\nIt Ain’t Easy<\/strong>
\nLady Stardust<\/strong>
\nStar<\/strong>
\nHang On To Yourself<\/strong>
\nZiggy Stardust<\/strong>
\nSuffragette City<\/strong>
\nRock ‘N’ Roll Suicide<\/strong><\/p>\n

N\u00e5r jeg siger n\u00e6sten<\/em>, er det fordi sidste sang p\u00e5 side 1, ‘It Ain’t Easy’, i\u00f8vrigt det f\u00f8rst indspillede til pladen overhovedet, stikker ud og IMO ikke holder resten af albummets sangm\u00e6ssigt ufejlbarlige niveau. S\u00e5 p\u00e5 dagens playlist-udgave af albummet her, vil lige det nummer v\u00e6re erstattet af anderledes fremragende ‘Velvet Goldmine’, en leftover-sang fra Hunky Dory<\/em>-optagelserne. S\u00e5 historieforfalskende giver den fremtid, Bowie allerede for l\u00e6ngst flirtede tungt med for 40 \u00e5r siden, en lov at v\u00e6re.<\/p>\n

Og David Bowie? Han turnerede pladen gennem verden som en hvirvelvind med The Spiders from Mars og blev selv supertstjerne undervejs. Bowie’s titelnummer-tekstord ‘when the kids had killed the man I had to break up the band’ skulle dog vise sig at blive profetiske. Men inden da, kun ti m\u00e5neder efter Ziggy Stadust’s udgivelse, var han allerede tilbage med sit nye album\u00a0Aladdin Sane<\/em>. Det var aldrig Vince Taylor men derimod en fremstormende og evigtskiftende David Bowie, der var en arbejdsmanisk alien i 70’erne.<\/p>\n

PS – Hvis lyst til mere, s\u00e5 skriver Jan Poulsen indg\u00e5ende om Ziggy Stardust og specielt David Bowie’s aftryk i dansk litteratur i dagens Politiken. Hans artikel kan l\u00e6ses lige her<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n