Ziggy Stardust: From Bowie To Bauhaus… The Key To Decades Conceits
Chris Bohn, NME, 23 October 1982
So you've seen Bauhaus performing 'Ziggy Stardust' on TV and you still don't believe in reincarnation? Ziggy, who entered the material world via David Bowie, is the '70s most enduring character the world's first bisexual android and forerunner of punk's glam savages. Ziggy, it seems, will play guitar again and again and again.
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