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The quintessential moment in glam rock history 'Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars' is David Bowie at his best. This film of the 1973 concert released 10 years later documents the hallucinogenic collage of kitsch WarholPop irony and flamboyant excess that was the Bowie phenomenon his trademark synthetic androgyny is a musical symbiosis of feminine passion and masculine dominance that define his funky gender bending art and ultimately the glam rock genre as a whole. Early on the film cuts to elaborate backstage costume changes between sets highlighting a playlist that includes such classics as Changes Space Oddity Time and Suffragette City. In this comprehensive document of a seminal peformer in music history director D.A. Pennebaker captures the enigmatic singer's smoldering brilliance like a Hubble photograph of a supernova it is essential viewing for Bowie fans and music historians alike.
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